Francis Kiranka Masese

Graduate Student

Department of Chemistry

Francis Kiranka Masese received his B.Tech in Industrial and applied chemistry in 2016 from the Technical University of Kenya in Kenya. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Chemistry and is a graduate student in Professor Rajeswari Kasi’s laboratory at the University of Connecticut. His research leverages on the advantages of biodegradable and sustainable polymers and stimuli-responsive liquid crystalline molecules to synthesize, molecular engineer, and process functional materials while exploiting their interplay during self-assembly to design multi-stimuli hybrid materials with nanometer precision for applications in prosthetics, scaffolds to grow tissues and inorganics, solid-state electrolytes, optoelectronics, drug delivery systems, sensors, photonics, sub 10 nm templates, and ferromagnetic smart devices.