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Program Faculty
Name | Position & Department | Research Areas |
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Dr. Juan Aceros | Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering | Micro-electromechanical systems, assistive and adaptive technologies |
Dr. Grant Bevill | Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering | Biomechanics |
Dr. Stuart Chalk | Professor, Chemistry | Chemical informatics, materials informatics, and data science |
Dr. Paula Mariel Coelho | Assistant Professor, Physics | Surface science, scanning tunneling microscopy, and 2D materials |
Dr. Paul Eason | VP of Strategy and Innovation & Director, MSERF & Professor, Mechanical Engineering | Metallurgy, electron microscopy |
Dr. Lev Gasparov | Presidential Professor, Physics & Associate Dean, COAS | Optical properties of materials, Raman spectroscopy |
Dr. Jason Haraldsen | Associate Professor, Physics | Theoretical /computational materials physics |
Dr. M. Laura Habegger | Assistant Professor, Biology | Functional morphology, biomechanics |
Dr. Osama Jadaan | Professor, Mechanical Engineering | Probabilistic design, ceramic engineering, fracture mechanics, and finite element analysis |
Dr. Brynna Jones | Assistant Professor, Chemistry | Optical spectroscopy, interactions of microplastics with environmental systems |
Dr. Chris Kelso | Associate Professor, Physics | Particle detection with a focus on neutrinos and dark matter |
Dr. Bryan Knuckley | Professor & Chair, Chemistry | Polymers and diagnostic sensors |
Dr. Kenneth Laali | Presidential Professor Emeritus, Chemistry | Organic, organometallic, medicinal, and materials chemistry |
Dr. Amy Lane | Professor, Chemistry | Natural products/secondary metabolites |
Dr. Michael Lufaso | Associate Professor, Chemistry | Solid state synthesis, x-ray diffraction, and structure-property relationships |
Dr. Joshua Melko | Associate Professor, Chemistry | Characterizing energetics and reactivity of transition metal molecules |
Dr. Thomas J. Mullen | Associate Professor, Chemistry | Molecular self- and directed-assembly on metal and semiconductor surfaces |
Dr. Thomas Pekarek | Presidential Professor, Physics | Magnetically-doped semiconductors |
Dr. Daniel Santavicca | Professor, Physics & Coordinator, MS MSE Program | Nanoscale electronics and optoelectronics, superconducting devices |
Dr. Alexandra Schonning | Professor, Mechanical Engineering | Finite element analysis, biomechanics, computer-aided engineering, diversity & inclusion |
Dr. Jutima Simsiriwong | Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering | Fatigue and fracture analysis of additively-manufactured materials |
Dr. Stephen Stagon | Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering | Surfaces, coatings, and interface engineering |
Dr. Eirin Sullivan | Assistant Professor, Chemistry | Synthesis, structural and physical characterization of functional solid state materials via x-ray and neutron powder diffraction |
Dr. Candice Tahimic | Assistant Professor, Biology | Microgravity and space radiation and their effects on organ systems; bioinformatics; microarchitectural analysis of calcified biomaterial |
Dr. Maitri Warusawithana | Associate Professor, Physics | Molecular beam epitaxy, complex oxides, quantum materials |
Dr. Benjamin Williams | Assistant Professor, Chemistry | Catalysis, energy storage, metal-organic frameworks, and nanomaterials |
Dr. Brian Wingender | Faculty Administrator, MSERF | Biomineralization, biomemetics/biomaterials, and correlative microscopy |
Dr. Gregory Wurtz | Professor & Chair, Physics | Nano-optics, nonlinear optics, ultrafast optics, and plasmonics |