Prof. Andrea Armani
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Prof. Andrea Armani
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Living duality of careers: Prof of Engineering & Sr Director of Engineering; Fellow (Fella) of many technical societies; explores photonics, materials, & diagnostics; loves cats, dogs, chocolate, & family. Personal opinions. (Previously: @ProfArmani)
Congratulations to Lexie Scholtz who just defended her PhD in BME! She's headed off on Monday to KLA to be an applications and packaging engineer!!

@academic-chatter.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Made some St. Patrick's Day treats for the team! Mini-chocolate torts (shaped like four leaf clovers) and orange sugar cookies (with green clovers painted on in sparkly dust).

May everyone have a little luck today! 🍀

@academic-chatter.bsky.social 🧪
March 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Congratulations to Kylie Trettner who just defended her PhD in Chemical Engineering! We wish her all the best as she embarks on an exciting new journey as a scientific analyst in the VC world.
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@academic-chatter.bsky.social
March 12, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Valentine's exchange, lab style.

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February 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Having an amazing time at #PhotonicsWest! Watched an incredible series of talks on #quantum optics behaviors and devices and caught up with friends at a WiO event!

@spie.org 🧪💡 @academic-chatter.bsky.social
January 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Best part of conferences - catching up with former team members who are now rockstars!! 🌟

@academic-chatter.bsky.social @spie.org 🧪💡
January 26, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Celebrating the achievements of 2024 and Yasaman Moradi's last group meeting. After finishing her PhD, she is heading off to FujiFilm.

@academic-chatter.bsky.social
#lifegoals 🎉💡🧪
January 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Team bonding before the holiday break filled with creativity and laughter!

(Playing with clay)

🧪 #academicsky #teambonding
December 13, 2024 at 5:52 PM
Congratulations to #USC PhD student and group member Yasaman Moradi who just successfully defended her PhD in chemical engineering!!

🧪 #academicsky #PhDdone #engineering
December 11, 2024 at 1:11 AM
First attempt at gingerbread and sugar cookies made over the weekend went well (as judged by my work colleagues). 🎉 🎄

#homemade #cookies
December 4, 2024 at 2:48 PM
Hi to all of my new followers and new Blueskiers(?)! Great to see everyone making the journey!

#cats #Academicsky
November 28, 2024 at 9:18 PM
Had a wonderful time last night joining Nee, Sev, and Meredith on a panel celebrating NOVA's new 3-part engineering series "Building Stuff"! The third episode airs next Wednesday, & all episodes are available for free at: www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/se...
#STEM 🧪 #Academicsky
@pbs.org.web.brid.gy #NOVA
November 22, 2024 at 7:43 PM
We have a living tree topper this year.

Maybe we'll just skip the ornaments.

#cat #cats 🐱
November 18, 2024 at 3:00 PM
This amazing FREE series - which explores rockets, implantable devices, submarines, & more - is streaming now! What an incredible resource to inspire students to pursue #STEM! 🧪

Here's a "behind the scenes" photo of the filming.

@learnscience.org
@opnmagazine.bsky.social
#engineering #SciComm
November 14, 2024 at 2:20 PM
Better late than never, my team dressed up for Halloween - complete with plans!

#halloween2024 🎃
November 4, 2024 at 1:46 PM
Voting is a privilege and a responsibility.

Remember to carefully consider all candidates & propositions. You are asked to vote on many topics & positions beyond the President.

#IVoted  #Vote
October 29, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Just dropped my ballot off!

Make sure your voice and opinions are heard.

#IVoted  #vote  #IVotedEarly
October 27, 2024 at 10:41 PM
Celebrating 18 years together!

#anniversary #celebrating #datenight
September 30, 2024 at 8:55 PM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #463,654!
September 26, 2024 at 6:10 PM
After several (numerous) failures this weekend, I'm proud to say that I was able to make canneles (or caneles)!

(I forgot to take pictures of the end result - and they are all gone...)

#homemade #baking #pastry
August 26, 2024 at 12:45 PM
After many people quietly asked "are you on a call?", I've decided to just own my behavior.

(Maybe "muttering" is a better word. 😂)

#writing @academic-chatter.bsky.social 🧪💡
August 19, 2024 at 1:57 PM
Congratulations to USC Viterbi PhD student Jack Paulson who just passed his PhD screening exam. One hurdle down on his path to a PhD in Materials Science

🧪 💡 @academic-chatter.bsky.social @chemjobber.bsky.social
June 13, 2024 at 3:15 PM
Celebrated my 46th birthday by #hiking in the #Sierras! I've lived in CA for over 20yrs but never visited. Had an amazing time - even conquered some "moderate" trails w/ snow bridges and water crossings!! (w/ the guidance of my husband who has done much harder hikes).

#trail #wildlife #Mammoth
June 1, 2024 at 3:23 PM
This is Kylie's 1st *1st* author paper & Jeremy is a HS student. For both, this is a HUGE career milestone.
In addition, they demonstrated fearlessness in the pursuit of discovery. This is my lab's 1st foray into this field. It is always scary to be the "1st". 2/3
#proudmentor 🧪💡
March 28, 2024 at 4:30 PM
Congrats to @USCViterbi PhD student Kylie & Polytech HS student Jeremy! They use ML/AI to determine #PDAC spheroid *viability* just appeared in @aplbioeng! They also demonstrate a label-free longitudinal study.

But there's more this paper
Link: pubs.aip.org/aip/apb/arti...
1/3
March 28, 2024 at 4:28 PM