Hector Pascual
Bio: UCI, Materials Science and Engineering Ph.D., expected 2025 Interests & Hobbies: Hiking, surfing, playing the piano, cooking traditional Spanish food. Research Project: Expanding plasmonic nanogap chemistries beyond previously assembled anhydride crosslinking molecules to encompass other functional groups such as carboxylic acid or amines for metabolic biosensors. Spectroscopically probing the coupling between phonon modes of the gap molecules with local electric fields. Fellowships and Awards: UCCS Balsells Mobility Fellowship (2020) Publications: Pascual, H., & Yee, X. C. (2022). Least squares regression principal component analysis: A supervised dimensionality reduction method. Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications, 29(1), e2411.
UCI, Materials Science and Engineering M.S., 2021
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Engineering Physics B.S., 2020
UCI Balsells Graduate Fellowship (2020)