James P. McMillan

Born and raised in Buffalo NY, James is a proud Buffalonian. He earned his B.S. at SUNY at Buffalo (UB) in 2008 and promptly began his graduate studies at The Ohio State University in the fall. In 2010, he earned his M.S. and in 2011 joined the Microwave Lab. During the 2012-13 school year he served both as a University Senator and delegate to the Council of Graduate Students. In the summer of 2015, James became one of the three graduate students to win that year's Rao Prize at the 70th International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy. In April of 2016 he successfully defended his thesis. He has accepted an appointment as a postdoctoral researcher in the Microwave Lab to begin May 2016.

James' current studies focus on the problem of the astrophysical "weeds". By means of laboratory based temperature dependent terahertz spectrsocpy, James and his collaborators here at the Microwave Lab have sought to understand the complete contribution, of select "weed" molecules, to the available astrophysical spectral data. Other work has focused on the spectroscopic proofing of experimental terahertz transmitters and receivers. This latter work has been part of an ongoing collaboration between the Microwave Lab, UT Dallas, Wright State University and Texas Instruments. This collaboration is currently exploring the feasibility of using transmitters and receivers based off of solid state technologies for novel applications, such as breath analysis. Relatively inexpensive to mass produce, these transmitter and receiver pairs offer the potential of opening the terahertz up for a wide new range of applications.

A complete list of his publications may be found in his "CV".