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Program Faculty

The MSE MS program faculty come from different departments across UNF. Please see below for a list of the program faculty, their departmental affiliation, and their research areas.

Name	Position & Department	Research Areas
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 and Biochemistry	Chemical informatics, materials informatics, and data science
Dr. Paula Mariel Coelho	Assistant Professor, Physics	Surface science, scanning tunneling microscopy, and 2D materials
Dr. Florentino De la Cruz	Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering	Environmental chemistry and forest biomaterials
Dr. Nelson Delfino de Campos	Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering	Physical and mechanical metallurgy, materials characterization, alloy design, solidification, thermo-mechanical processing, coatings, tribology, corrosion
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	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 and Biochemistry	Optical spectroscopy, interactions of microplastics with environmental systems
Dr. Chris Kelso	Professor, Physics	Particle detection with a focus on neutrinos and dark matter
Dr. Bryan Knuckley	Professor & Chair, Chemistry and Biochemistry	Polymers and diagnostic sensors
Dr. Kenneth Laali	Presidential Professor Emeritus, Chemistry and Biochemistry	Organic, organometallic, medicinal, and materials chemistry
Dr. Michael Lufaso	Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry	Solid state synthesis, x-ray diffraction, and structure-property relationships
Dr. Joshua Melko	Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry	Characterizing energetics and reactivity of transition metal molecules
Dr. Thomas J. Mullen	Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry	Molecular self- and directed-assembly on metal and semiconductor surfaces
Dr. Christopher Oshman	Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering	Thermo-fluids science, micro/nano engineering, advanced manufacturing, de-carbonization
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
Dr. Jutima Simsiriwong	Associate 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 and Biochemistry	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 and Biochemistry	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