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.
Computational materials
Kumar Ankit
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.
Dhruv Bhate
Dhruv Bates
Associate Professor
School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks
Research Interests
Bio-Inspired Design; Architected Materials; Additive Manufacturing
Antia S. Botana
Antia Sanchez Botana
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics
Research Interests
Density functional theory calculations, superconductivity, topological phases of matter, 2D and quantum magnetism, thermoelectricity.
Ralph Chamberlin
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.
Stephen Goodnick
Stephen Goodnick
Professor and Deputy Director ASU Lightworks
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
Research Interests
Solid state device physics, transport in nanostructures, nanoelectronic devices and circuits, computational electronics, RF and microwave devices, optoelectronic, energy conversion devices
Qijun Hong
Qijun Hong
Assistant Professor
Materials science and engineering
Research Interests
Density functional theory, deep learning, high temperature high pressure materials, materials design and discovery, database and infrastructure, prediction of materials properties
Yang Jiao
Yang Jiao
Associate Professor
Materials science and engineering
Research Interests
Computational materials design; microstructure and effective properties of heterogeneous materials; multifunctional composites design and modeling; granular materials; biomaterials.
Richard King
Richard King
Professor
Electrical Engineering
Research Interests
Defect-tolerant photovoltaic materials, materials for low-cost multijunction solar cells, carrier-selective contacts, recombination at semiconductor interfaces, layered van der Waals materials and devices, single-photon emission from nanostructured 2D materials, entangled photon-pair emission, metasurface photonic resonators, electromagnetic simulation of nanostructure arrays.
Christopher Muhich
Christopher Muhich
Assistant Professor
Chemical engineering
Research Interests
Computational Chemistry (quantum simulations), metal oxide redox reactions, renewable/sustainable fuel generation and energy storage, materials design for environmental catalysis and remediation processes.
Arunima K. Singh
Arunima K. Singh
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics
Research Interests
Computational study of two-dimensional materials for nano-electronic and solar-energy conversion; high-throughput materials discovery through atomistic simulations; fundamental properties of materials’ interfaces; density functional theory simulations
Dragica Vasileska
Dragica Vasileska
Professor and ASU PLuS Alliance Fellow
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
Research Interests
Computational electronics, semi-classical and quantum transport, Monte Carlo simulations, Green’s Functions, optoelectronics – photodetectors and solar cells modeling, diffusion-reaction modeling.
Houlong Zhuang
Houlong Zhuang
Assistant Professor
Aerospace and mechanical engineering
Research Interests
Computational materials science, two-dimensional quantum materials, computational design of multi-principal-component alloys, computational electrochemistry.