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Materials Science and Engineering Program

All courses, faculty listings, and curricular and degree requirements described herein are subject to change or deletion without notice.

Professors

Eduard Arzt, PhD, Materials Science and Engineering, Distinguished Visiting Professor

Richard Averitt, PhD, Physics

Prabhakar Bandaru, PhD, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Michael Burkhart, PhD, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Leonid Butov, PhD, Physics

Shengqiang Cai, PhD, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Renkun Chen, PhD, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Shaochen Chen, PhD, Chemical and Nano Engineering

Karen Christman, PhD, Bioengineering

Seth Cohen, PhD, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Shadi Dayeh, PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Massimiliano Di Ventra, PhD, Physics

Robert Dynes, PhD, Physics

Lars Eckmann, MD, Medicine

Adam Engler, PhD, Bioengineering

Y. Shaya Fainman, PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Joshua Figueroa, PhD, Chemistry and Biochemistry

James R. Friend, PhD, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Eric Fullerton, PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Javier Garay, PhD, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Olivia A. Graeve, PhD, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Program Director

Vicki H. Grassian, PhD, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Silvio Gutkind, PhD, Pharmacology

Thomas Hermann, PhD, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Xiaohua Huang, PhD, Bioengineering

Jesse V. Jokerst, PhD, Chemical and Nano Engineering

Hyonny Kim, PhD, Structural Engineering

Hyunsun Kim, PhD, Structural Engineering

Clifford Kubiak, PhD, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Andrew Kummel, PhD, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Ratnesh Lal, PhD, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Ping Liu, PhD, Chemical and Nano Engineering

Zhaowei Liu, PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Yu-Hwa Lo, PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Kenneth Loh, PhD, Structural Engineering

Vitaliy Lomakin, PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Vlado Lubarda, PhD, Chemical and Nano Engineering

Jian Luo, PhD, Chemical and Nano Engineering

Brian Maple, PhD, Physics

Xanthippi Markenscoff, PhD, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Andrew McCulloch, PhD, Bioengineering

Marc A. Meyers, PhD, Chemical and Nano Engineering

Timothy A. Morris, MD, Medicine

Tse Nga Ng, PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Shyue Ping Ong, PhD, Chemical and Nano Engineering

Francesco Paesani, PhD, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Alessandro Palermo, PhD, Structural Engineering

Jonathan Pokorski, PhD, Chemical and Nano Engineering

Yu Qiao, PhD, Structural Engineering

Padmini Rangamani, PhD, Pharmacology

Kaustuv Roy, PhD, Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution

Michael J. Sailor, PhD, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Geert W. Schmid-Schoenbein, PhD, Bioengineering

Ivan K. Schuller, PhD, Physics

Oleg Shpyrko, PhD, Physics

Daniel Sievenpiper, PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Nicole Steinmetz, PhD, Chemical and Nano Engineering

Gurol M. Suel, PhD, Molecular Biology

Frank E. Talke, PhD, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Andrea Tao, PhD, Chemical and Nano Engineering

Akif A. Tezcan, PhD, Chemistry and Biochemistry

George Tynan, PhD, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Kenneth S. Vecchio, PhD, Chemical and Nano Engineering

Elizabeth Villa, PhD, Molecular Biology

Joseph Wang, PhD, Chemical and Nano Engineering

Samuel R. Ward, PT, PhD, Orthopaedic Surgery

Wei Xiong, PhD, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Sheng Xu, PhD, Chemical and Nano Engineering

Jerry Yang, PhD, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Eugene W. Yeo, PhD, Cellular and Molecular Medicine

Paul Yu, PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Liangfang Zhang, PhD, Chemical and Nano Engineering

Associate Professors

Nicholas Boechler, PhD, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Zheng Chen, PhD, Chemical and Nano Engineering

Ertugrul Cubukcu, PhD, Chemical and Nano Engineering

David Fenning, PhD, Chemical and Nano Engineering

Alex Frano, PhD, Physics

Michael Frazier, PhD, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Kamil Godula, PhD, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Nicholas Gravish, PhD, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Duygum Kuzum, PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Ester Kwon, PhD, Bioengineering

Julia Ortony, PhD, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Sameer B. Shah, PhD, Bioengineering

Lingyan Shi, PhD, Bioengineering

Donald Sirbuly, PhD, Chemical and Nano Engineering

Michael Tauber, PhD, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Jennifer Taylor, PhD, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Mehran Tehrani, PhD, Structural Engineering

Michael Tolley, PhD, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Sheng Xu, PhD, Chemical and Nano Engineering

Oscar Vazquez Mena, PhD, Chemical and Nano Engineering

Kesong Yang, PhD, Chemical and Nano Engineering

Michael Yip, PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Assistant Professors

Claire Acevedo, PhD, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Brian Aguado, PhD, Bioengineering

Monica T. Allen, PhD, Physics

Jinhye Bae, PhD, Chemical and Nano Engineering

Valentina Di Santo, PhD, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Kent Griffith, PhD, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Zeinab Jahed, PhD, Chemical and Nano Engineering

Shaowei Li, PhD, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Wanlu Li, PhD, Chemical and Nano Engineering

Haiwen Luan, PhD, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Machel Morrison, PhD, Structural Engineering

Abdoulaye Ndao, PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Tod A. Pascal, PhD, Chemical and Nano Engineering

Lisa Poulikakos, PhD, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Andrew Pun, PhD, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Jeffrey D. Rinehart, PhD, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Nathan A. Romero, PhD, Chemistry and Biochemistry

David Santiago-Dieppa, MD, FAANS, Neurological Surgery

Alina Schimpf, PhD, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Shabnam J. Semnani, PhD, Structural Engineering

Nisarg Shah, PhD, Chemical and Nano Engineering

Georgios Tsampras, PhD, Structural Engineering

Haiwang Yong, PhD, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Researchers

Dimitri Deheyn, PhD, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Malcolm D. Stokes, PhD, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Adjunct Professors

Andrew Bartko, PhD, Bioengineering

Arunava Gupta, PhD, Chemical and Nano Engineering

Karsten B. Zengler, MD, Pediatrics