Joseph B. Herzog, PhD
Assistant Professor
R.B. Annis School of Engineering
University of Indianapolis


Formerly at the University of Arkansas:
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics
Materials Science & Engineering program*, Faculty
Institute for Nanoscience & Engineering, Faculty


Postdoctoral, Rice University
PhD, University of Notre Dame
MS, University of Notre Dame
BS, Louisiana State University

Joseph B. Herzog is an Assistant professor in the R.B. Annis School of Engineering at the University of Indianapolis. He chose to come to the University of Indianapolis because he is passionate about teaching, is excited about the direction of the new R.B. Annis School of Engineering, is glad to return to his engineering roots, and is happy to be close to his extended family. Previously he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Arkansas. He is truly grateful for his time at the University of Arkansas, and enjoyed his department, students, and the campus. While in Fayetteville, he also served as a faculty in the Microelectronics-Photonics Program and the Institute for Nanoscience and Engineering. He received his PhD from the University of Notre Dame working in the Nano-Optics Research Lab with J. Merz and A. Mintairov. After this he was a Welch Postdoctoral Research Associate, researching plasmonic nanostructures at Rice University with Douglas Natelson in the Department of Physics & Astronomy. In the summer of 2017 he was a Fellow at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, DC working with Jake Fontana on tunable subnanometer gap plasmonic metasurfaces as part of the Office of Naval Research Summer Faculty Research Program. At the NRL he worked in the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering, which is a division of the Materials Directorate at the NRL. His experience also includes working for Intel Corporation both in Hillsboro, OR and Santa Clara, CA; and he worked at the Berliner Elektronenspeicherring-Gesellschaft für Synchrotronstrahlung m.b.H. (BESSY - Berlin electron storage ring company for synchrotron radiation) in Berlin, Germany, researching ultra thick high-aspect-ratio microfabrication. His research has focused on nano-optics, including plasmonics, nanofabrication, computational modeling, and photonic crystals.

Academic Advising Tree

• Rice University, Physics and Astronomy, Houston, TX
• Postdoctoral Research Associate Advisor: Dr. Douglas Natelson


• University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, , Advisor: Dr. James Merz
• Dissertation: Optical Spectroscopy of Colloidal CdSe Semiconductor Nanostructures
• M.S., Electrical Engineering,
• Thesis: Infrared Reflectivity Spectroscopy of Short Period AlGaN/GaN Superlattice Optical Phonons


• Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA,
• B.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Minor: Math

• University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN,
• Assistant Professor, R.B. Annis School of Engineering


• University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR,
• Assistant Professor, Department of Physics
  
• Principal Investigator, Plasmonic Nano-Optics Lab
  
• Faculty, Microelectronics-Photonics Program
  
• Faculty, Institute for Nanoscience and Engineering


• U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC,
• Office of Naval Research Summer Faculty Fellow, Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering, Materials Directorate


• Rice University, Houston, TX
• Welch Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Physics and Astronomy
• with Douglas Natelson researching Plasmonic nanostructures


• University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
• Research Assistant, Nano-Optics Research Lab with J. Merz and A. Mintairov


• Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA
• Graduate Technical Intern, Post-silicon validation circuit marginality group


• Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, OR
• Engineer Intern, Part of the Intel 64-bit microprocessor Core i7 design team


• Berliner Elektronenspeicherring-Gesellschaft für Synchrotronstrahlung m.b.H. (BESSY)
• Berlin electron storage ring company for synchrotron radiation, Berlin, Germany
• Research Assistant, LIGA synchrotron high-aspect-ratio microfabrication


• Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices, LSU, Baton Rouge, LA
• Research Assistant, LIGA synchrotron high-aspect-ratio microfabrication


• Entergy Corporation, St Francisville, LA
• Engineer Intern, River bend Nuclear Generating Station (1010 MWe)

• 2021 First Place National Robotics Challenge (Faculty Advisor) - Combat Robot, Beetle-weight Post-secondary division. Marion, OH
• 2021 Provost Fellow
• 2021 InQuery Collaborative Grant
• 2020 Faculty Scholarship Grant
• 2020 SPIE Senior Member
• 2019 Faculty Academy Fellow
• 2017 Robert C. and Sandra Connor Endowed Faculty Fellowship
• 2017 Office of Naval Research (ONR) Summer Faculty Fellowship
• 2016 Faculty Gold Medal - Office of Nationally Competitive Awards, University of Arkansas

• University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN
• CSCI 155 - Introduction to Programming (Lecture + Lab)
• CSCI 496 - Computer Science Capstone Lab I (lead instructor)
• CSCI 498 - Computer Science Capstone Lab II (lead instructor)
• EENG 120 - DC Circuits (Lecture + Lab)
• EENG 220 - Digital Systems (Lecture + Lab)
• ENGR 196 - Intro to Engineering Lab
• ENGR 296 - Engineering Design Lab III (co-instructor)
• ENGR 298 - Engineering Design Lab IV (lead instructor)
• ENGR 396 - Engineering Design Lab V (co-instructor)
• ENGR 398 - Engineering Design Lab VI
• ENGR 400 - Special Topics (Plasmonics Research)
• ENGR 450 - Engineering Research (Honors)
• ENGR 496 - Engineering Design Lab VII (Senior Capstone 1, lead instructor)
• ENGR 498 - Engineering Design Lab VIII (Senior Capstone 2, lead instructor)


• University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
• PHYS 1044 - Physics for Architects I (Lecture + Lab)
• PHYS 1054 - Physics for Architects II (Lecture + Lab)
• PHYS 306V - Projects (undergraduate research)
• PHYS 3444 - Optics (Lecture + Lab)
• PHYS 3213 - Electronics in Experimental Physics (Lecture + Lab)
• PHYS 399VH - Honors (undergraduate research)
• PHYS 502V - Independent Study in Advanced Physics
• PHYS 600VH - Master's Thesis Research
• PHYS 700VH - Dissertation
• UNIV 1001 - University Perspectives


• University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX
• ENSC 3330 - Energy for the Future


• University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
• EG 10111 - Introduction to Engineering Systems I
• EG 10112 - Introduction to Engineering Systems II
• EE 60548 - Electromagnetic Theory, Teaching Assistant
• EE 20224 - Introduction to Electrical Engineering, Teaching Assistant