H. Daniel Ou-Yang
Professor of Physics
Department of Physics, Lehigh University
16 Memorial Drive, East
Bethlehem, PA 18015
Phone: 610-758-3920 (Office)
610-758-5720 (Lab)
610-758-3949 (Lab)
Fax: 610-758-5730
Dr. Ou-Yang is a professor of physics of Lehigh University. He received B.S. and M.S. in physics in 1975 and 1977 from Fu-Jen Catholic University in Taiwan. He did graduate study at UCLA and received Ph.D. in physics from in 1985. He joined the Physics Department of the University of Pennsylvania and Exxon Corporate Research Laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow during the period 1985 – 88. He joined Lehigh University as an assistant professor of physics in 1988 and was promoted to the associate professor in 1994 and full professor in 2000. During the period of June 1999 to May 2000, on sabbatical from Lehigh University, Dr. Ou-Yang worked as a visiting research scientist at the CNRS Laboratory for Dynamics of Complex Fluids in Strasbourg, France. Currently, Dr. Ou-Yang also serves as a co-leader of the Biophotonics Group of the Lehigh-Penn State University Center for Optical Technologies, and the Associate Director of the Bioengineering Program at Lehigh University.
Dr. Ou-Yang conducts research in experimental soft condensed matter physics with particular interest in the areas of polymers, colloids and cellular biophysics.
His research activities include the studies of acoustically induced non-linear birefringence in gold-sols, adsorption of telechelic polymers at colloidal surfaces, complexation of cyclodextrin with hydrophobically modified associative polymers, complexation of cyclodextrin with hydrophobic monomers confined in an isolated oil droplet, hydrodynamic interactions of colloidal particles confined in harmonic potential wells, and the investigation of the microrheology of telechelic polyethylene-oxide solutions by a unique oscillatory optical tweezers method developed in his laboratory.