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others free radicals and ions that impact combustion and plasma processes. The utilization of the twin techniques of supersonic jet spectroscopy and optogalvanic spectroscopy has enabled the precise spectroscopic characterization of moderate-size organic species and the plasma associated with hollow cathode discharges. Besides the investigation of free radicals, neutral and ionic species in the ultraviolet and visible regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, Dr. Misra's research has also covered a detailed characterization and modeling of adsorption phenomena associated with trace atmospheric species on a variety of metallic and non-metallic surfaces in the mid-infrared region via
Fourier Transform infrared spectroscopy and simulation of laser-tissue interactions using a liposome-dye complex. In addition, he has worked on the development of a database and spectral library of organic molecules that has relevance to the search for life on other planets, such as Mars. He is currently involved in the detailed characterization of a variety of nanomaterials (e.g. graphene, carbon nanotubes and metal oxides) using Raman Spectroscopy and Molecular Dynamics Simulations.
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Misra was the recipient of a NASA ESMD Faculty
Fellowship that enabled him to be stationed at Langley Research Center (2007), Virginia, and Goddard Space Flight Center (2007 & 2008), Maryland. Earlier in 2004–2005, Misra was a Fulbright Scholar and a visiting professor in the Department of Chemical Sciences at The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India. He received the NASA Administrator's Fellowship Program (NAFP) award (1999–2001) (administered by the United States National Research Council, NRC), which enabled him to be involved with the Vegetation Canopy Lidar mission at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (1999–2000) and to serve as a Study Coordinator for the National Academy of Sciences' sponsored study titled "Commercial Supersonic Technology- The Way Ahead" at the Aeronautics & Space Engineering Board (ASEB) (2000–2001). Misra participated in the Research Directors Conference that was held at the
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education research by developing an
Interdisciplinary Microcomputer-Based Teaching and Learning Platform for the Howard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and was showcased in the Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Assessment (CETLA). In addition, he has developed Earth and Space Science Education curricula for the Earth System Science Education in the 21st Century (ESSE21) USRA program. He spearheaded the successful proposal to include Howard University as part of the USRA Consortium. He organized a Nobel Laureate Symposium on November 10, 2010, in which Dr.
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During the period 1992–2007, he served as a principal investigator (1992–96) and an associate principal investigator (1997–2007) for the Center for the Study of
Terrestrial & Extraterrestrial Atmospheres (CSTEA), which was a NASA-funded University Research Center (URC). He has also contributed to
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Prabhakar Misra has been involved in basic and applied spectroscopic research that spans more than 25 years in the field of atomic and molecular physics and condensed matter physics. He has contributed extensively to the understanding of unstable and stable molecular species, which has included among
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Prabhakar Misra is the editor of the book titled "Applied
Spectroscopy and the Science of Nanomaterials" (New York: Springer, 2015). He is the co-editor (along with Chandran Haridas) of the research monograph "Fundamentals & Current Topics in Molecular Structure Research" (Research Signpost,
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University Department of Physics & Astronomy student team successfully participated in a Zero-G Flight Experiment, Low Gravity Gas-Liquid Contactor, at Ellington Field, Houston, TX on November 12–13, 2013.
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Conference on Energy Harvesting Storage and Conversion, February 4–7, 2015, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, India.
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Summer Faculty Fellowship award and spent the 2008 Summer on a NASA Astrobiology Institute MIRS & Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD) Fellowship at
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