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