Bruno Azeredo
Associate Professor
Manufacturing Systems and Networks
Research Interests
Synthesis of reactive nanoscale metallic materials via electrochemical methods, laser-matter interactions in advanced manufacturing, electrochemical machining of inorganic semiconductors
Yoon Hwa
Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering
Research Interests
Synthesis of functional nanomaterials for the energy storage system; Electroanalytical chemistry, Metal 3D manufacturing such as laser powder bed fusion.
Nicholas Rolston
Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering
Research Interests
Study of the connection between material degradation in renewable energy materials and devices with the evolution of mechanical and environmental stress. Goal is to develop the next-generation of photovoltaics and battery technology using the paradigm of design for reliability.
Mariana Bertoni
Fulton Energy and Materials Professor
Electrical Engineering
Research Interests
Solar absorbers and materials for energy conversion, semiconductors and oxides for carrier extraction, Synthesis and Defect Engineering, Correlative nano-scale characterization, In-situ and operando characterization, Synchrotron X-ray microscopy, X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy, X-ray Ptychography.
Dhruv Bates
Associate Professor
School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks
Research Interests
Bio-Inspired Design; Architected Materials; Additive Manufacturing
James Adams
President’s professor
Undergraduate program chair, materials science and engineering
Research Interests
Atomic-scale computer simulation to understand the structure, properties, processing and design of materials.
Ronald Adrian
Regents’ Professor
Aerospace and mechanical engineering
Research Interests
Turbulence, experimental fluid mechanics, laser diagnostics laser instrumentation micro detonation.
Terry Alford
Professor
Materials science and engineering
Research Interests
Materials properties for low-power electronics and novel integrated-circuit components formation and adhesion of sol-gel metal systems for biomedical applications.
Jean Andino
Associate Professor
Chemical engineering
Research Interests
Air pollution and energy, air pollutant sensing and control, chemical kinetics
Kumar Ankit
Assistant Professor
Materials science and engineering
Research Interests
Computational modeling of microstructure and defects’ evolution, Structure-processing correlations, Phase transformations, Deformation-reaction-convection couplings and pattern formation in materials processing and geoprocesses.
Spring Berman
Associate Professor
Aerospace and mechanical engineering
Research Interests
Modeling, analysis, control, and optimization of multi-robot systems including robotic swarms; analysis of collective behaviors in biology and biologically-inspired control of distributed systems
Mariana Bertoni
Assistant Professor
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
Research Interests
Materials for energy conversion, Performance limiting defects: kinetics of formation and degradation, Advanced X-ray characterization across dimensions and scales, Correlative characterization approaches and big data analytics.
Antia Sanchez Botana
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics
Research Interests
Density functional theory calculations, superconductivity, topological phases of matter, 2D and quantum magnetism, thermoelectricity.
Ronald Calhoun
Associate Professor
Aerospace and mechanical engineering
Research Interests
Remote sensing of environmental flows, atmospheric boundary layers and wind energy systems for climate studies
Ralph Chamberlin
Associate Professor
Department of Physics
Research Interests
Theory of small-system thermodynamics, especially using computer simulations to study the local thermal and dynamic properties inside complex materials.
Candace Chan
Associate Professor
Materials science and engineering
Research Interests
Lithium-ion batteries and electrochemical capacitors; electrochemical energy storage, solar-to-fuel photoelectrochemistry, nanomaterial synthesis.
Aditi Chattopadhyay
Regents’ Professor
Aerospace and mechanical engineering
Research Interests
Adaptive structures, structural health monitoring, composites, multiscale analysis, multidisciplinary design optimization and reduced order modeling
Kangping Chen
Associate Professor
Aerospace and mechanical engineering
Research Interests
Fluid mechanics and interfacial phenomena applied to flows in porous media, hydraulic fracture, multiphase flow and heat transfer.
Xiangfan Chen
Assistant Professor
The Polytechnic School
Research Interests
Advanced manufacturing (e.g. additive manufacturing); functional metamaterials/metasurfaces; optical/photonic devices; high-efficiency energy conversion systems; biomedical devices.
Peter Crozier
Professor
Graduate program chair, materials science and engineering
Research Interests
Seeing materials with Electrons: Synthesis, characterization and evolution of nanomaterials and nanostructures related to energy and the environment; strong emphasis on advanced electron microscopy imaging and spectroscopy. Catalytic materials, electroceramics. photocatalysis.