Experience

Graduate Research Assistant
Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, The University of Texas at Austin (Summer 2006 -Present)

Teaching Assistant, PHY 301
Physics Department, The University of Texas at Austin (Spring 2006)

Teaching Assistant, homework service
Physics Department, The University of Texas at Austin (Fall 2005)

Education

Pursuing MA & Ph.D. in Physics

University of Texas at Austin (2005 – present)

B.S. in Physics
University of Sicence & Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui China (1999-2003)

Honors

Faculty For The Future  Fellowship from Schlumberger ( 2006 – 2009)

Dept. of  Physics Graduate Fellowship (2007-2009)

David Bruton Jr. Fellowship (2006)

Research Interests

• Nonconservative forces in optical tweezers

• Three-dimensional thermal noise imaging
  

Publication

• Direct measurement of the nonconservative force field generated by optical tweezers, Pinyu Wu, Rongxin Huang, Christian Tischer, Alexandr Jonas, and Ernst- Ludwig Florin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 108101 (2009).
• Comment on Influence of non-conservative optical forces on the dynamics of optically trapped colloidal spheres: The fountain of probability, arXiv:0804.0730v1, , Rongxin Huang, Pinyu Wu, Ernst-Ludwig Florin, arXiv:0806.4632

Conferences

• Direct measurement of the nonconservative force field generated by optical tweezers

2009 APS March Meeting, Pittsburg, PA

• Measurement Of The Non-conservative Force Generated By Optical Tweezers

2009 Biophysical Society Meeting, Boston,  MA