Materials Science and Engineering Faculty

Mohamad Al-Sheikhly, Professor
Director, Biophysical and Polymer Radiation Laboratory
Polymers, radiation engineering, electronic packaging materials, environmental effects.
2309F Chem-Nuc | (301) 405-5214
E-mail: mohamad@umd.edu | Home Page

Sreeramamurthy Ankem, Professor
ASM Fellow
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. 
1105 Chem-Nuc | (301) 405-5219
E-mail: ankem@umd.edu | Home Page

Robert M. Briber, Professor and Chair
APS Fellow
Thermodynamics of complex polymer systems, structural solutions of novel molecules.
2141 Chem-Nuc | (301) 405-7313 | Home Page
E-mail: rbriber@umd.edu

Oded Rabin, Assistant Professor
Joint appointment with IREAP
Characterization, devices, materials, particles, nanowires (synthesis and characterization), thermal and electrical transport, nanoporous membranes, sensing plasmonics.
1110B Chem-Nuc | (301) 405-3382 | Home page
E-mail: oded@umd.edu

Lourdes G. Salamanca-Riba, Professor
Director of Microscopy and Microanalysis Center
Structural studies of thin film semiconductor heterostructures and superlattices, superconductors and metallic multilayers, optical properties of materials.
1244 Kim Bldg. | (301) 405-5220
E-mail: riba@umd.edu | Home Page

Joonil Seog, Assistant Professor
Joint appointment with the Fischell Department of Bioengineering
Structure-function relationships of biological molecules using single molecule force spectroscopy. Nanomechanics of biopolymers and synthetic macromolecules.
1140 Kim Bldg. | (301) 405-1885 | Home page
E-mail: jseog@umd.edu

Manfred Wuttig, Professor
Graduate Program Director
Smart materials, multiferroics.
1110C Chem-Nuc | (301) 405-5212 | Home page
Email: wuttig@umd.edu

Helim Aranda-Espinoza, Assistant Professor
Fischell Department of Bioengineering
Chemical and biological engineering, soft condensed matter, biomechanics and biopolymers.
3138 Kim Bldg. | (301) 405-8250 | Home page
E-mail: helim@umd.edu

Bryan Eichhorn, Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Materials chemistry, materials synthesis, heterogeneous catalysis, fuel cell research, transition metal main group clusters (Zintl ions), NMR spectroscopy, crystallography.
4102 Chemistry Bldg.| (301) 405-1864 | Home page
E-mail: eichhorn@umd.edu

Alison Flatau, Professor
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Magnetostrictive materials and transduction, nanotechnology sensors, synthetic jet actuators, and active flow control.
3184 Martin Hall | (301) 405-1131 | Home page
E-mail: aflatau@umd.edu

Peter Kofinas, Professor
Fischell Department of Bioengineering
Chemical and biomolecular engineering, bioengineering, polymer science and engineering
1120 Kim Bldg. | (301) 405-7335 | Home page
E-mail: kofinas@umd.edu

Benjamin Shapiro, Associate Professor
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Research control of micro-scale systems, fluid dynamics, and biochemicals.
3178 Martin Hall| (301) 405-4191 | Home page
E-mail: benshap@umd.edu

Lawrence Sita, Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Synthetic, structural and mechanistic inorganic and organometallic chemistry; molecular and mesoscopic self-assembly processes; chemically modified surface and interfaces.
0300 Chemistry Bldg. | (301) 405-5753 | Home page
E-mail: lsita@umd.edu

Michael Zachariah, Professor
Mechanical Engineering and Chemistry
NanoParticle Science, Manufacturing and Measurements.
2125 Martin Hall | (301) 405-4311 | Home page
E-mail: mrz@umd.edu

Mel Bernstein, Professor of Practice
Vice President of Research
Division of Research
University of Maryland at College Park
2133 Lee Building | (301) 405-4175
E-mail: mbern@umd.edu | Home page