Biographical Sketch
John Noel was born in Midland, Texas. He received his B.S. in Physics and Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Texas A&M University under the supervision of Prof. Winfried Teizer in the Dept. of Physics and Prof. Wonmuk Hwang in the Dept. of Bioengineering. During his graduate studies, Noel also spent a summer carrying out materials science research at Seoul National University in South Korea. Noel’s interests took him from low temperature physics to biotechnology, and he ultimately completed his dissertation on surface science for controlling functional proteins in vitro.
From 2009 to 2012, Noel studied as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Institute for Environmental Medicine within the School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. There, Noel carried out in-vivo imaging studies in the pulmonary microvascular system under the supervision of a widely recognized leader in the field of lung physiology, Dr. Aron Fisher, and also worked alongside Prof. Shampa Chatterjee.
In 2013, Noel joined the faculty of the Department of Physics at Temple where he is currently the Physics Laboratory Coordinator for the undergraduate teaching laboratories and continues to carry out research in biomedical science.
Research Interests
John Noel’s academic interests are medical devices, physics education, and bioimaging.
Approaching the medical device technology from the viewpoint of a physicist, Noel sees many opportunities to improve both diagnostics and interventions, and is currently working with Temple University’s School of Medicine to explore these opportunities.
Imaging microscale processes in real-time within living tissues is an exciting area that is being pushed forward by the increasing availability of molecular probes and advanced hardware such as multiphoton microscopy and superresolution imaging. Noel’s interests are in improving research methods by creating novel hardware and image analysis techniques.
Noel seeks to broaden the scope of physics teaching to include modern teaching methods, up-to-date curriculum and advanced technology.
Noel also coordinates outreach programs for the Physics Department, which participates in the Philadelphia Science Festival as well as science events at local schools in North Philadelphia.
Key Publications
Noel, J. Learning Physics Through Experimentation: A Lab Manual for Introductory Physics, Great River Learning, Dubuque IA (2015)
Noel, J. and Chatterjee, S. "Shear Stress and Vascular Inflammation: A study in the Lung" in Roy, Bagchi, and Raychaudhury (Eds.) Chronic Inflammation: Nutritional and Therapeutic Interventions, CRC Press, Boca Raton 2012.
Noel, J.; Hong, N.; DeBolt, K; Fisher, A.B.; Chatterjee, S. PECAM-1 Mechanosensing Contributes to Reactive Oxygen Species Generation in the Pulmonary Microvasculature, American Journal of Physiology – Lung Cellular & Molecular Physiology, 2013, 305, pg. L805.
Noel, J.; Teizer, W.; Hwang, W. Antifouling Self-assembled Monolayers on Microelectrodes for Patterning Biomolecules, Journal of Visualized Experiments 2009.
Noel, J.; Teizer, W.; Hwang, W. Surface Manipulation of Microtubules using Self-Assembled Monolayers and Electrophoresis, ACS Nano 2009, 3, pg. 1938
Kolomenskii, A.; Peng, S.; Hembd, J.; Kolomenskii, A.; Noel, J.; Strohaber, J.; Teizer, W.; Scheussler, H. Propagation of Surface Plasmons in a Metal Film with Roughness, Optics Express 2011, 19, pg. 6587.