Materials Science and Engineering Faculty
Mail may be sent to department faculty at the following address:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
2135 Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building (#090)
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-2115
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Al-Sheikhly, Mohamad
Professor
Director, Radiation Facility and Nuclear Reactor
Ph.D., University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, 1981
Room 2309D Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: mohamad@umd.edu
Phone:
(301) 405-5214
Research Interests: Polymers, biomaterials, radiation engineering, nuclear engineering, and environmental effects. Homepage »
Ankem, Sreeramamurthy
Professor
ASM Fellow
Ph.D., Polytechnic Institute of New York, 1980
Room 1105 Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: ankem@umd.edu
Phone:
(301) 405-5219
Research Interests: Physical and mechanical metallurgy of titanium alloys, finite element method (FEM) of deformation and damping behavior of composite materials, micro structure evolution in multiphase materials. Homepage »
Briber, Robert M.
Professor and Chair
APS Fellow
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1984
Room 2141 Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: rbriber@umd.edu
Phone:
(301) 405-7313
Research Interests: X-ray and neutron scattering, thermodynamics and structure of polymers. Homepage »
Christou, Aris
Professor
IEEE Fellow
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1971
Room 2309A Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: christou@umd.edu
Phone:
(301) 405-5208
Research Interests: Radiation effects in microelectronics, radiation hard design methodologies and the physics of failure of compound semiconductors in space applications. Research in materials degradation, radiation induced defects in metals, corrosion effects and high pressure induced transformations in steels and iron alloys. Web Site »
Cumings, John
Associate
Professor
Keystone Professor
Undergraduate Advisor
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 2002
Room 1246 Kim Engineering Building
E-mail: cumings@umd.edu
Phone:
(301) 405-0789
Research Interests: Nanoelectronics, nanodevices, microscopy. Homepage »
Hu, Liangbing
Assistant
Professor
Ph.D.,
UCLA, 2007
Member, University of Maryland Energy Research Center (UMERC)
Room 1208 Engineering Lab Building
E-mail: binghu@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-9303
Ph.D students and others interested in learning more about positions in Dr. Hu's group may contact him at binghu@umd.edu. Visit his homepage or his web site for more information.
Research Interests: Nanomaterials and nanostructures, energy storage, energy conversion, and printed electronics. Homepage » | Web site »
Lloyd, Isabel K.
Associate
Professor
Undergraduate Advisor, Sloan Scholars Advisor
ACERS Fellow
Ph.D.,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 1980
Room 2309 Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: illoyd@umd.edu
Phone:
(301) 405-5221
Research Interests: High elastic modulus dental composites, biomaterials, ceramics for sensor systems. Homepage »
Martínez-Miranda, Luz
Associate
Professor
Undergraduate Advisor, Sloan Scholars Advisor
APS Fellow
AAAS Fellow
Ph.D.,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 1985
Room 1110D Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: ljmm@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-0253
Research Interests: Liquid Crystals for biological studies and general engineering applications (ex, displays), X-ray scattering techniques of liquid crystal and other materials. Homepage »
Oehrlein, Gottlieb S.
Professor
Joint appointment with IREAP
AVS Fellow
IUPAC Fellow
Ph.D.,
State University of New York—Albany, 1981
Room 2119 Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: oehrlein@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-8931
Research Interests: Plasma science and technology, plasma-surface interactions for materials processing, physics and chemistry of nanostructure fabrication. Homepage » | Web Site »
Phaneuf, Ray
Professor
Undergraduate Program Director
Ph.D.,
University of Wisconsin—Madison, 1985
Room 1108 Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: phaneuf@lps.umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-6566
Research Interests: Nanotechnology, surface physics, low energy electron microscopy, photoemission electron microscopy, scanned probe microscopies, templating for directed self-assembly. Web Site »
Rabin, Oded
Assistant Professor
Joint appointment with IREAP
Undergraduate Advisor
Ph.D.,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2004
Room 1110B Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: oded@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-3382
Research Interests: Nanoscale synthesis, nanoparticles, nanowires, thermal and electrical transport, nanoporous membranes, sensing and plasmonics. Homepage » | Web Site »
Roytburd, Alexander L.
Professor
Ph.D., Academy of Sciences of the USSR—Moscow, 1962
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Science, Institute of Metal Physics, Academy of Sciences of the USSR—Sverdlovsk, 1972
Room 1106 Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: roytburd@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-7298
Research Interests: Theory of phase transformations and plastic deformation in crystals; theory and modeling of domain structures and their evolution under external fields in functional materials: ferroelectrics, ferromagnetics, ferroelastics and shape memory alloys; theory and modeling of structure and properties of polydomain and heterophase epitaxial films.
Rubloff, Gary
Minta Martin Professor of Engineering
Director, Maryland NanoCenter
APS Fellow
AVS Fellow
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1971
Office: 1128 Kim Engineering Building
Mail: Room 2145 A.V. Williams Building
E-mail: rubloff@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-3011
Research Interests: Multifunctional nanostructures for energy storage and capture; biofabrication in MEMS microsystems, biomedical and sensor applications; atomic layer deposition (ALD) process, mechanisms, and technology; nanoscale devices for quantum computing. Web Site »
Salamanca-Riba, Lourdes G.
Professor
Ph.D.,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 1985
Director, Microscopy and Microanalysis
Center
Room 1244 Kim Engineering Building
E-mail: riba@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-5220
Research Interests: Nanocomposites of ferroelectric-/-magnetic oxides, optical properties of materials, transmission electron microscopy of semiconductor nanowires, hybrid phtovoltaic nanocompostites. Homepage »
Seog, Joonil
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003
Room 1140 Kim Engineering Building
E-mail: jseog@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1885
Research Interests: Self-assembly and molecular mechanics of biological materials, biomaterials for gene delivery, stimuli-responsive peptide-based materials, optical tweezers. Web Site »
Takeuchi, Ichiro
Professor
APS Fellow
Ph.D.,
University of Maryland—College Park, 1996
Room 1242 Kim Engineering Building
E-mail: takeuchi@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-6809
Research Interests: Combinatorial synthesis and rapid characterization of materials, novel thin-film multilayer devices, scanning probe microscopes. Homepage »
Wachsman, Eric
Professor and William L. Crentz Centennial Chair in Energy Research
Joint appointment with Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Director, University of Maryland Energy Research Center
Electrochemical Society Fellow
ACerS Fellow
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1990
Room 1206A Engineering Lab Building
E-mail: ewach@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-8193
Research Interests: Development of solid oxide fuel cells, gas separation membranes, solid-state gas sensors, electrocatalytic conversion of CH4, post-combustion reduction of NOx using advanced ion conducting materials. Homepage »
Wuttig, Manfred
Professor
Graduate Program Director
Dr. -Ing.,
Technische Hochschule Dresden and Technische Universität
Berlin, 1958
Room 1110C Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: wuttig@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-5212
Research Interests: Phase transformations, self-organized materials, magnetoelectrics, nanomagnetism. Homepage »
TopDr. Aldo Ponce
Lecturer/Laboratory Coordinator
Ph.D., Kansas State University, 2002
1223B Chemical & Nuclear Engineering Building
E-Mail: aldop@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1074
Fax: (301) 405-6327
Aranda-Espinoza, Helim
Associate Professor
Fischell Department of Bioengineering
Ph.D., Universidad de San Luis Potosi, Mexico, 1998
Room 3138 Kim Engineering Building
E-mail: helim@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-8250
Research Interests: Chemical and biological engineering, soft condensed matter, biomechanics and biopolymers. Web Site »
Eichhorn, Bryan
Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1987
Room 4102 Chemistry Building
E-mail: eichhorn@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1864
Research Interests: Materials chemistry, materials synthesis, heterogeneous catalysis, fuel cell research, transition metal main group clusters (Zintl ions), NMR spectroscopy, crystallography. Homepage »
Flatau, Alison
Professor
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Ph.D., University of Utah, 1990
Room 3184 Martin Hall
E-mail: aflatau@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1131
Research Interests: Magnetostrictive materials and transduction, nanotechnology sensors, synthetic jet actuators, and active flow control. Homepage | Web Site »
Ghodssi, Reza
Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin—Madison, 1996
Room 2236 Kim Engineering Building
E-mail: ghodssi@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-8158
Research Interests: Magnetostrictive materials and transduction, nanotechnology sensors, synthetic jet actuators, and active flow control. Web Site »
Kofinas, Peter
Professor
Fischell Department of Bioengineering
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 1994
Room 1120 Kim Engineering Building
E-mail: kofinas@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-7335
Research Interests: Biomimetic recognition of viruses using molecularly imprinted polymers, protein and virus recognition using block copolymer patterns, self-assembled nanoarchitectures for flexible, high energy density supercapacitors and batteries, and functional nano-structured polymers. Homepage » | Web Site »
Lee, Sang Bok
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Ph.D., Seoul National University, 1997
Room 0107 Chemistry Building
E-mail: slee@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-7906
Research Interests: Electrochemical synthesis of nanotube-structured materials for ultrafast electrochromics, supercapacitors, and solar cells; magnetic nanotubes for targeted drug delivery and chemical & biochemical separation; shape-coded nanotubes for dispersible nanosensors; wetting and de-wetting, transport, and diffusion properties of pseudo-one-dimensional silica nanotubes; nanoscale single-channel for chemical and biochemical sensors. Homepage »
Nie, Zhihong
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Ph.D., Polymer and Materials Chemistry, University of Toronto, Canada, 2008
Room 3218 Chemistry Building
E-mail: znie@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1874
Research Interests: Molecular and colloidal self-assembly; Microfluidics and microreactors; Soft nanotechnology; Nanoscience and nanochemistry; Plasmonics and metamaterials; Biomedicine and medical diagnostics; Biomineralization and bioinspired materials. Web Site »
Ouyang, Min
Associate Professor
Department of Physics
Ph.D., Harvard University, 2001
Room 2334 Physics Building
E-mail: mouyang@physics.umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-5985
Research Interests: Exploration of emerging physical phenomena at the nanoscale, including light-matter-spin interactions, through nanomaterials advancement, ultrafast spectroscopy, and new local probe instrumentation and technology development. Homepage » | Web Site »
Rodriguez, Efrain
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Ph.D., Materials, University of California Santa Barbara, 2009
Room 4101 Chemistry Building
E-mail: efrain@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1541
Research Interests: Materials and solid state chemistry. Inorganic materials. Synthesis and characterization of transition metal (TM) compounds including oxides, chalcogenides and pnictides. Preparation of metastable materials for energy applications via chemie douce, or soft chemical, methods. Functional TM compounds with properties such as magnetic, electronic, and mixed conductivity (ionic and electrical). Advanced characterization of compounds including X-ray and neutron diffraction coupled with magnetization and electrical transport measurements. Homepage » | Web Site »
Shapiro, Ben
Associate Professor
Fischell Department of Bioengineering
Joint appointment with Institute for Systems Research (ISR)
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1999
Room 1226 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
E-mail: benshap@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-4191
Research Interests: Research control of micro-scale systems, fluid dynamics, and biochemicals. Homepage » | Web Site »
Sita, Lawrence
Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Ph.D.,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 1985
Room 0300 Chemistry Building
E-mail:lsita@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-5753
Research Interests: Synthetic, structural and mechanistic inorganic and organometallic chemistry; molecular and mesoscopic self-assembly processes; chemically modified surface and interfaces. Homepage »
Smela, Elisabeth
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Room 2176 Glenn L. Martin Hall
E-mail: smela@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-5265
Research Interests: Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), particularly polymer MEMS and bioMEMS; use of organic materials (from polymers to cells) in microsystems to realize microactuators, cell-based sensors, and CMOS/MEMS integrated systems. Homepage » | Web Site »
Wang, Chunsheng
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Ph.D., Zhejiang University, 1995
Room 1223A Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: cswang@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-0352
Research Interests: Fuel cells, rechargeable batteries, supercapacitors, hydrogen storage, sensors, advanced materials for electrochemical power sources.
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Zachariah, Michael
Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Joint appointment with the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), 1986
Room 2125 Martin Hall
E-mail:mrz@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-4311
Research Interests: Nanoparticle science, manufacturing and measurements. Homepage » | Web Site »
Richard Arsenault
Professor Emeritus
Room 1113 Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: rja@umd.edu
Phone:
(301) 405-5217
Research Interests: Mechanical properties of materials and metal matrix composites.
Joseph Silverman
Professor Emeritus
Room 2335 Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: jagman@umd.edu
Phone:
(301) 405-5228
Research Interests: Nuclear engineering, radiation chemistry and physics.
Aaron Barkatt
MSE Adjunct Professor
Professor,
Physical, Inorganic, and Materials Chemistry
Departments of Environmental Science & Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering
The Catholic University of America
Maloney Hall Room 201
620 Michigan Ave NE, Washington DC 20064
E-mail: barkatt@cua.edu
Phone: (202) 319-5397
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Robert Cook
MSE Adjunct Professor
Group Leader, Nanomechanical Properties Group
NIST M/S 8520
Gaithersburg, MD 20899
E-mail: robert.cook@nist.gov
Phone: (301) 975-3207
Jun Cui
MSE Adjunct Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Senior Scientist
Energy Materials, Energy and Environment Directorate
902 Battelle Boulevard
P.O. Box 999, MSIN K2-03
Richland, WA 99352
(509) 375-2028
Jun.cui@pnnl.gov
Tim Foecke
MSE Adjunct Professor
Director, Center for Metal Forming
NIST
Metallurgy Division
Gaithersburg, MD 20899
E-mail: timothy.foecke@nist.gov
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Boualem Hammouda
MSE Adjunct Professor
NIST Center for Neutron Research
Mail Stop 6102
Gaithersburg MD 20899-6102
E-mail: boualem.hammouda@nist.gov
Phone: 301-975-3961
Maija M. Kukla
MSE Adjunct Professor
Program Director,
EPSCoR, OD/OIA
National Science Foundation
4201 Wilson Blvd, Arlington, VA 22230
E-mail: mkukla@nsf.gov
Phone: (703)-292-4940
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Richard Livingston
MSE Adjunct Professor
Senior Physical Scientist (retired), Federal Highway Administration
Room 2309F Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-2115
E-mail: rliving1@umd.edu
Phone: (202) 738-7315
Brian D. Pate
MSE Adjunct Assistant Professor
Physical Scientist, Science & Technology Manager
Joint Science & Technology Office for Chemical & Biological Defense
Defense Threat Reduction Agency
Fort Belvoir, VA
E-mail: Brian.Pate@DTRA.MIL
Phone: (703) 767-3388
John J. Rush
MSE Adjunct Professor
UMD/ NCNR Cooperative Research Team
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
E-101,Bldg. 235
Gaithersburg, MD 20899
E-mail: john.rush@nist.gov
Phone: (301) 975-6231
Julia Slutsker
MSE Adjunct Associate Professor
Patent Examiner
Semiconductor and Nanotechnology Group
US Patent and Trademark Office
E-Mail: julia.slutsker@gmail.com
Alec Talin
MSE Adjunct Associate Professor
Materials Physics Dept.
MS9161
Sandia National Labs
7011 East Ave
Livermore, CA 94550
E-Mail: aatalin@sandia.gov
Phone: (925) 294-2495
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