Prashant Jain grew up in Bombay, where he completed his undergraduate education at the Institute of Chemical Technology. He obtained his PhD working with M. A. El-Sayed at Georgia Tech in 2008, following which he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard. After a Miller Fellowship at UC Berkeley (2009-2011), he joined the UIUC faculty in Fall 2011. He teaches graduate/undergraduate Statistical Mechanics and Physical Chemistry Principles Labs and is a co-developer of nanoDDSCAT, a freely available  GUI tool for nano-optics simulation and design. Prashant's research interests are in molecular and nano-optics, areas in which his work has been cited 8100 times and highlighted mutiple times in science media..

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Prashant K Jain (2014), "[Illinois] Fundamentals of Nano-Optics and Plasmonics for the Biomedical Researcher," https://nanohub.org/resources/21351.

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1. biomedical
2. chemistry
3. Illinois
4. NanoBio Node at Illinois
5. nanoDDSCAT
6. nanooptics
7. nanoparticles
8. NCN Group - Photonics
9. plasmonics