Oded Rabin is an assistant professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics since the Fall of 2007. He received a B.A. degree in chemistry from the Technion, Haifa, Israel, an M.Sc. degree in chemistry from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehobot, Israel, and a Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. He completed postdoctoral training at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School and at the University of California, Berkeley.

His research program focuses on nanoscale structures and their interaction with their chemical and physical environment. His laboratory will develop synthetic strategies to make useful nanoparticles, nanowires, and nano-structured thin films. Areas of interest include: (1) chemical sensing and molecule-nanoparticle interactions; (2) advanced materials for thermoelectric energy generation; (3) applications of nanoparticles as biomarkers for imaging, diagnosis, and repair; (4) porous anodic alumina scaffolds; and (5) molecular and nanoparticle transport in microfluidic devices.