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Kai Kristiansen

Research and Development Engineer
Phone:
+1 805-893-2011
Email:
kai_kristiansen@ucsb.edu
Office:
Broida 5239

Biography

Serves as a Research and Development Engineer for the High Energy Physics group, working with students, staff and faculty on experiments from the engineering design stage via fabrication to installation.

Research

Push the boundaries of scientific instrumentations.

Selected Publications

Xinting Yu, Sarah M Hörst, Chao He, Patricia McGuiggan, Kai Kristiansen, Xi Zhang (2020), Surface energy of the Titan aerosol analog “tholin”, The Astrophysical Journal (905) 88.

Kai Kristiansen, Roberto C Andresen Eguiluz, Szu-Ying Chen, Subhash C Ayirala, Mohammed B Alotaibi, Ali A Yousef, Martin Moskovits, James R Boles, Jacob N (2020), Crude Oil/Brine/Rock Interactions during SmartWater Flooding in Carbonates: Novel Surface Forces Apparatus Measurements at Reservoir Conditions, SPE-200329.

Kai Kristiansen, Stephen H Donaldson Jr, Zachariah J Berkson, Jeffrey Scott, Rongxin Su, Xavier Banquy, Dong Woog Lee, Hilton B De Aguiar, Joshua D McGraw, George D Degen, Jacob N Israelachvili (2019), Multimodal miniature surface forces apparatus (μSFA) for interfacial science measurements, Langmuir (35) 15500-15514.

Dong Woog Lee, Kai Kristiansen, Stephen H Donaldson Jr, Nicholas Cadirov, Xavier Banquy, Jacob N Israelachvili (2015), Real-time intermembrane force measurements and imaging of lipid domain morphology during hemifusion, Nature Communications (6) 1-8

Stephen H Donaldson Jr, Anja Røyne, Kai Kristiansen, Michael V Rapp, Saurabh Das, Matthew A Gebbie, Dong Woog Lee, Philipp Stock, Markus Valtiner, Jacob Israelachvili (2015), Developing a general interaction potential for hydrophobic and hydrophilic interactions, Langmuir (31) 2051.

Markus Valtiner, Xavier Banquy, Kai Kristiansen, George W Greene, Jacob N Israelachvili (2012), The electrochemical surface forces apparatus: The effect of surface roughness, electrostatic surface potentials, and anodic oxide growth on interaction forces, and friction between dissimilar surfaces in aqueous solutions, Advanced Materials (28) 13080.

Kai Kristiansen, Xavier Banquy, Hongbo Zeng, Eric Charrault, Suzanne Giasson, Jacob Israelachvili (2012), Measurements of Anisotropic (Off‐Axis) Friction‐Induced Motion, Advanced Materials (24) 5236-5241.

Kai Kristiansen, Markus Valtiner, George W Greene, James R Boles, Jacob N Israelachvili (2011) Pressure solution–The importance of the electrochemical surface potentials, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (75) 6882.

Younjin Min, Mustafa Akbulut, Kai Kristiansen, Yuval Golan, Jacob Israelachvili (2008), The role of interparticle and external forces in nanoparticle assembly, Nature (7) 527.