Ju Chou
Florida Gulf Coast University, USA
Biography
Ju Chou is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Physics at Florida Gulf Coast University. Dr. Chou received her Ph.D. in chemistry from Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun, China in 1995. After that, Dr. Chou worked as a postdoctoral fellow in RIKEN Research Institute in Japan for a year and then came to the United States as a visiting research scholar working at University of California-Irvine and later at University of California-Santa Barbara. Dr. Chou’s research areas include bio-electrochemistry of proteins, bioaccumulation of trace elements in tissues, synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials.
Dr. Chou’s recent research interests also include green synthesis of gold nanoparticles and environmental analysis of toxic metals in water and human hair. She is also collaborating with biology professors on the application of gold nanoparticles. This research focuses studying toxicity, biocompatibility and transport of gold nanoparticles in membranes and cancer cells.