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
For affiliate and adjunct professors, please refer to their home departments for contact information or to the address given.
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Al-Sheikhly, Mohamad
Professor
Director, Biophysical and Polymer Radiation Laboratory
Ph.D., University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, 1981
Room 2309F Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: mohamad@umd.edu
Phone:
(301) 405-5214
Research Interests: Polymers, radiation engineering, electronic packaging materials, 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
ASM 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: Thermodynamics of complex polymer systems, structural solutions of novel molecules. 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: Electronic packaging materials, thin film semiconductors, reliability of electronic systems. Web Site »
Cumings, John
Assistant
Professor
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 »
Lloyd, Isabel K.
Associate
Professor
Ph.D.,
M.I.T., 1980
Undergraduate Advisor, Sloan Scholars Advisor
ACERS Fellow
Room 2309 Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: illoyd@umd.edu
Phone:
(301) 405-5221
Research Interests: High elastic modulus dental composites, all-ceramic dental restorations, biomaterials, effects of processing on performance of ceramic materials. Homepage »
Martínez-Miranda, Luz
Associate
Professor
Ph.D.,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 1985
Undergraduate Advisor, Sloan Scholars Advisor
APS Fellow
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
Ph.D.,
State University of New York—Albany, 1981
AVS Fellow
IUPAC Fellow
Room 2119 Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: oehrlein@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-8931
Research Interests: Low-temperature plasma science & technology, plasma and process diagnostics, plasma-surface interactions, physics and chemistry of micro- and nanostructure fabrication, novel materials, surface physics and chemistry. Homepage »
Phaneuf, Ray
Associate Professor
Ph.D.,
University of Wisconsin—Madison, 1985
Room 1106 Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: phaneuf@lps.umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-6566
Research Interests: Nanotechnology, surface physics, low electron microscopy, photoemission electron microscopy, scanned probe microscopies, templating for directed self-assembly. Web Site »
Rabin, Oded
Assistant Professor
Joint appointment with IREAP
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: Characterization, devices, materials, particles, nanowires (synthesis and characterization), thermal and electrical transport, nanoporous membranes, sensing plasmonics. Homepage »
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 1108 Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: roytburd@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-7298
Research Interests: Modulated structures in epitaxial layers and multilayer composites, formation and deformation of polydomain materials, effect of interfaces on magnetic properties of oxide conductors. Homepage »
Rubloff, Gary
Minta Martin Professor of Engineering
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1971
Director, Maryland NanoCenter
APS Fellow
AVS Fellow
Room 2215 A.V. Williams Building
E-mail: rubloff@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-2949
Research Interests: Semiconductor materials and processes, control, semiconductor manufacturing, simulation, education and training, biomaterials and bioMEMS. 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: Structural studies of thin film semiconductor heterostructures and superlattices, superconductors and metallic multilayers, optical properties of materials. Homepage »
Seog, Joonil
Assistant Professor
Joint appointment with the Fischell Department of Bioengineering
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003
Room 1140 Kim Engineering Building
E-mail: jseog@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1885
Research Interests: Structure-function relationships of biological molecules using single molecule force spectroscopy. Nanomechanics of biopolymers and synthetic macromolecules. Homepage »
Takeuchi, Ichiro
Associate Professor
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 characterization of novel electronic and smart materials. Fabrication and characterization of novel thin-film multilayer devices. Scanning probe microscopes. Homepage »
Wuttig, Manfred
Professor
Dr. -Ing.,
Technische Hochschule Dresden and Technische Universität
Berlin, 1958
Graduate Program Director
Room 1110C Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: wuttig@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-5212
Research Interests: Smart materials, multiferroics. Homepage »
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Aranda-Espinoza, Helim
Assistant 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
Associate 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 »
Shapiro, Ben
Associate Professor
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Joint appointment with Institute for Systems Research (ISR)
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1999
Room 3178 Martin Hall
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: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Synthetic, structural and mechanistic inorganic and organometallic chemistry; molecular and mesoscopic self-assembly processes; chemically modified surface and interfaces. Homepage »
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 »
Bernstein, Mel
Professor of Practice
Vice President of Research, Division of Research
University of Maryland—College Park
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1965
Room 2133 Lee Building
E-mail:mbern@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-4311
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Joseph Silverman
Professor Emeritus
Room 1314 Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: jagman@umd.edu
Phone:
(301) 405-5228
Mariano Anderle
Senior Scientist/Head of International Relations Area
Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Trento, Italy
Via Sommarive 18, 38100 Povo, Trento, Italy
E-mail: anderle@itc.it
Phone: +39-0461-314484
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Arron Barkatt
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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Dr. Jun Cui
Materials Scientist
Material Analysis and Chemical Science, GE Global Research Center
One Research Circle, K1-2D47, Niskayuna, NY 12309
E-mail: cui@research.ge.com
Kristl B. Hathaway
Research Physicist/Consultant
Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock
845 Mason Avenue, Deale MD 20751
E-mail: kristlhathaway@earthlink.net
Phone: (301) 261-9566
Maija M. Kukla
Program Director,
EPSCoR, OD/OIA
National Science Foundation
4201 Wilson Blvd, Arlington, VA 22230
E-mail: mkukla@nsf.gov
Phone: (703)-292-4940
Richard Livingston
Adjunct Professor
Room 2309F Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-2115
E-mail: rliving1@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-0231
Dr. John J. Rush
UMD/ NCNR Cooperative Research Team
National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST)
E-101,Bldg. 235
Gaithersburg, MD 20899
E-mail: john.rush@nist.gov
Phone: (301) 975-6231
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