University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Grainger College of Engineering
Materials Research Laboratory

Directory

Faculty

Peter Abbamonte
Professor, Physics
John R. Abelson
Professor Emeritus, Materials Science and Eng.
Robert S. Averback
Professor Emeritus, Materials Science and Eng.
Rashid Bashir
Dean, Grainger College of Engineering
Jeff Baur
Professor, MRL
Pascal Bellon
Professor, Materials Science and Eng.
Alexey Bezryadin
Professor, Physics
Paul V. Braun
Professor and Director, MRL
David Cahill
Professor, Materials Science and Eng.
Qing Cao
Associate Professor, Materials Science and Eng.
David Ceperley
Professor, Physics
Marie Agathe Charpagne
Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Eng.
Qian Chen
Associate Professor, Materials Science and Eng.
Tai-Chang Chiang
Research Professor, MRL; Professor Emeritus, Physics
S. Lance Cooper
Professor, Physics
Jacob P. Covey
Assistant Professor, Physics
Brian Leeds DeMarco
Professor, Physics
Ying Diao
Associate Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Eng.
Dana D. Dlott
Research Professor, MRL; Professor Emeritus, Chemistry
James N. Eckstein
Professor, Physics
Elif Ertekin
Associate Professor, Mechanical Science and Eng.
Christopher Evans
Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Eng.
Randy H. Ewoldt
Associate Professor, Mechanical Science and Eng.
Jie Feng
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Science and Eng.
Eduardo H. Fradkin
Professor, Physics
Andrew A. Gewirth
Professor, Chemistry
Matthew Gilbert
Associate Professor, ECE
Elizabeth Goldschmidt
Assistant Professor, Physics
Axel Hoffmann
Founder Professor, Materials Science and Eng.
Pinshane Huang
Associate Professor, Materials Science and Eng.
Taylor L. Hughes
Professor, Physics
Prashant Jain
Professor, Chemistry
Harley T. Johnson
Professor, Mechanical Science and Eng.
Brett Sanford Kaufman
Assistant Professor, Classics
Paul J. A. Kenis
Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Eng.
Bill King
Professor, Mechanical Science and Eng.
Angela Kou
Assistant Professor, Physics
Jessica Anne Krogstad
Associate Professor, Materials Science and Eng.
Paul G. Kwiat
Professor, Physics
Cecilia Leal
Associate Professor, Materials Science and Eng.
Virginia Lorenz
Associate Professor, Physics
Gregory MacDougall
Research Assistant Professor, MRL
Vidya Madhavan
Professor, Physics
Fahad Mahmood
Assistant Professor, Physics
Benito J. Marinas
Professor, Civil and Environmental Eng.
Nadya Mason
Professor, Physics
Nenad Miljkovic
Associate Professor, Mechanical Science and Eng.
Jeff Moore
Professor, Chemistry
Catherine Jones Murphy
Professor & Head, Chemistry
Satish K. Nair
Professor & Interim Head; Biochemistry
Ralph G. Nuzzo
Professor, Chemistry
Nicola Helen Perry
Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Eng.
Wolfgang Pfaff
Assistant Professor, Physics
Christopher V. Rao
Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Eng.
Joaquin Rodriguez Lopez
Associate Professor, Chemistry
John A. Rogers
Adjunct Professor, Materials Science and Eng.
R. Mohan Sankaran
Professor, NPRE
Andre Schleife
Associate Professor, Materials Science and Eng.
Charles M. Schroeder
Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Kenneth S. Schweizer
Professor, Materials Science and Eng.
Moonsub Shim
Professor, Materials Science and Eng.
Daniel P. Shoemaker
Associate Professor, Materials Science and Eng.
Charles E. Sing
Associate Professor, Chemical & Biomolecular Eng.
Petros Sofronis
Professor, Mechanical Science and Eng.
Nancy R. Sottos
Professor & Head, Materials Science and Eng.
Antonia Statt
Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Eng.
Jean-charles Stinville
Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Eng.
Ken Suslick
Research Professor, MRL; Professor Emeritus, Chemistry
Dallas Trinkle
Professor, Materials Science and Eng.
Arend van der Zande
Associate Professor, Mechanical Science and Eng.
Dale J. Van Harlingen
Professor, Physics
Smitha Vishveshwara
Professor, Physics
Hua Wang
Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Eng.
Pingfeng Wang
Associate Professor, Industrial & Enterprise Systems Eng.
Hong Yang
Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Eng.
Beniamin Zahirisabzevar
Research Assistant Professor, MRL
Yingjie Zhang
Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Eng.
Steven C. Zimmerman
Professor, Chemistry
Jian-Min Zuo
Professor, Materials Science and Eng.

Staff

Mohammad Amdad Ali
MRL Facilities Postdoctoral Associate
Paul V. Braun
Director, MRL
C.Q. Chen
Senior Research Scientist
Staci Deane Disney
Office Administrator
Emily E. Edwards
Managing Director, IQUIST
Kristen M. Flatt
Research Scientist
Jeff Gaede
Business & Financial Coordinator
Kim Gudeman
Director of Research Communications, GCoE Marketing & Communications
Richard T. Haasch
Senior Research Scientist
Bobbi Lee Battleson Hardy
Customer Relations Manager - Engineering IT Shared Services
Bhavna Hirani
Research Program Manager, IQUIST
Douglas A. Jeffers
Coordinator, Molecular Beam Epitaxy Facility
Toyanath Joshi
Research Scientist
Maisie Lee Kingren
Safety Engineer
Bruce Kraay
Research Engineer
Susan K. Logan
Office Administrator
Juan Sebastian Lopez
Research Scientist
Gregory MacDougall
Research Assistant Professor, MRL
Sid Majumdar
Associate IT Specialist - Engineering IT Shared Services
Rachel McCool
Office Administrator
Lou Ann Miller
MRL Facilities Academic Hourly
Tyler Owens
IT Specialist - Engineering IT Shared Services
Pamela A. Pena Martin
Research Program Coordinator
Gianni Pezzarossi
Computational System Analyst - Engineering IT Shared Services
Summer Redman
HR Coordinator, Engineering HR Shared Services
Roddel Remy
Research Scientist
Irene John Sakellarakis
Senior IT Specialist - Engineering IT Shared Services
Mauro Sardela
Director of Research Facilities
Tao Shang
Senior Research Engineer
Allison Sibert
Instrumentation Specialist
Patrick Jay Snyder
Research Program Manager, IQUIST
Julio Antonio Nieri D Soares
Senior Research Scientist
Jessica Spear
Research Scientist
Timothy Spila
Senior Research Scientist
Hannah Elizabeth Stites
Office Manager, IQUIST
Gina Annette Stow
IT Specialist, Engineering IT Shared Services
Pengcheng Sun
Research Scientist
Wacek Swiech
Senior Research Scientist
Rafael Villalon
Storekeeper I
Kathy Walsh
Senior Research Scientist
Xiaoli Wang
Senior Research Engineer
Jade Wang
Research Scientist
Kristi Webster
Business & Financial Specialist
Lon Alan Westfall
Research Engineer
Kris Williams
Associate Director for Administration
Honghui Zhou
Senior Research Scientist