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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

Shengqiang Cai, PhD, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Renkun Chen, PhD, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Shaochen Chen, PhD, NanoEngineering and Chemical 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, NanoEngineering and Chemical 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

Darren Lipomi, PhD, NanoEngineering and Chemical Engineering

Ping Liu, PhD, NanoEngineering and Chemical 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, NanoEngineering and Chemical Engineering

Jian Luo, PhD, NanoEngineering and Chemical Engineering

Brian Maple, PhD, Physics

Xanthippi Markenscoff, PhD, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Andrew McCulloch, PhD, Bioengineering

Marc A. Meyers, PhD, Nanoengineering and Chemical Engineering

Timothy A. Morris, MD, Medicine

Tse Nga Ng, PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Alexander Norbash, MD, Radiology

Shyue Ping Ong, PhD, NanoEngineering and Chemical Engineering

Francesco Paesani, PhD, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Jonathan Pokorski, PhD, NanoEngineering and Chemical Engineering

Yu Qiao, PhD, Structural Engineering

Padmini Rangamani, PhD, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

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, NanoEngineering and Chemical Engineering

Gurol M. Suel, PhD, Molecular Biology

Frank E. Talke, PhD, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Andrea Tao, PhD, NanoEngineering and Chemical Engineering

Akif A. Tezcan, PhD, Chemistry and Biochemistry

George Tynan, PhD, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Kenneth S. Vecchio, PhD, NanoEngineering and Chemical Engineering

Elizabeth Villa, PhD, Molecular Biology

Joseph Wang, PhD, NanoEngineering and Chemical Engineering

Samuel R. Ward, MD, Orthopaedic Surgery

Wei Xiong, PhD, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Jerry Yang, PhD, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Eugene W. Yeo, PhD, Cellular and Molecular Medicine

Paul Yu, PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Karsten Zengler, PhD, Pediatrics

Liangfang Zhang, PhD, NanoEngineering and Chemical Engineering

Associate Professors

Nicholas Boechler, PhD, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Zheng Chen, PhD, NanoEngineering and Chemical Engineering

David Fenning, PhD, NanoEngineering and Chemical Engineering

Kamil Godula, PhD, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Nicholas Gravish, PhD, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Duygum Kuzum, PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Sameer B. Shah, PhD, Bioengineering

Donald Sirbuly, PhD, NanoEngineering and Chemical Engineering

Michael Tauber, PhD, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Jennifer Taylor, PhD, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Michael Tolley, PhD, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Sheng Xu, PhD, NanoEngineering and Chemical Engineering

Kesong Yang, PhD, NanoEngineering and Chemical Engineering

Michael Yip, PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Assistant Professors

Brian Aguado, PhD, Bioengineering

Monica T. Allen, PhD, Physics

Jinhye Bae, PhD, NanoEngineering and Chemical Engineering

Alex Frano, PhD, Physics

Michael Frazier, PhD, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Kent Griffith, PhD, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Ester Kwon, PhD, Bioengineering

Shaowei Li, PhD, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Wanlu Li, PhD, NanoEngineering and Chemical Engineering

Machel Morrison, PhD, Structural Engineering

Tod A. Pascal, PhD, NanoEngineering and Chemical Engineering

Lisa Poulikakos, PhD, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Jeffrey D. Rinehart, PhD, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Nathan A. Romero, PhD, Chemistry and Biochemistry

David Santiago-dieppa, MD, Neurological Surgery

Alina Schimpf, PhD, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Shabnam J. Semnani, PhD, Structural Engineering

Nisarg Shah, PhD, NanoEngineering and Chemical Engineering

Lingyan Shi, PhD, Bioengineering

Mehran Tehrani, PhD, Structural Engineering

Georgios Tsampras, PhD, Structural Engineering

Oscar Vazquez Mena, PhD, NanoEngineering and Chemical Engineering

Haiwang Yong, PhD, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Associate Research Professor

Dimitri Deheyn, PhD, Marine Biology

Adjunct Professors

Andrew Bartko, PhD, Bioengineering

Arunava Gupta, PhD, NanoEngineering and Chemical Engineering

Karsten B. Zengler, MD, Pediatrics