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.
Leslie H. Allen
Associate 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.
Lili Cai
ASST PROF, MRL
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
Eric Chitambar
Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engr
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
she/her/hers
Associate Professor, Mechanical Science and Eng.
Chris Evans
he/him/his
Associate 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
she/her/hers
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
he/him/his
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.
Tonghun Lee
PROF, MRL
Virginia Lorenz
Associate Professor, Physics
Callan Luetkemeyer
she/her/hers
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Science and Eng.
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
he/him/his
Professor, Chemistry
Catherine Jones Murphy
Professor & Head, Chemistry
Satish K. Nair
Professor & Interim Head; Biochemistry
Xin Ning
he/him/his
ASST PROF, MRL
Ralph G. Nuzzo
Professor, Chemistry
Lisa Olshansky
ASST PROF, MRL
Francesco Panerai
ASST PROF, MRL
Marco Panesi
PROF, MRL
Nicola Helen Perry
Associate 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, Nuclear, Plasma & Radiological Eng.
Andre Schleife
he/him/his
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.
Kelly Stephani
ASSOC PROF, MRL
Jean-charles Stinville
Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Eng.
Ken Suslick
Research Professor, MRL; Professor Emeritus, Chemistry
Dallas Trinkle
he/him/his
Professor, Materials Science and Eng.
Arend van der Zande
Associate Professor, Mechanical Science and Eng.
Dale Van Harlingen
he/him/his
Professor, Physics
L. Vergari
choose not to reply
Assistant Professor, Nuclear, Plasma & Radiological Eng.
Smitha Vishveshwara
Professor, Physics
Joshua Vura-Weis
ASSOC PROF, MRL
Hua Wang
Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Eng.
Pingfeng Wang
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.
Steve Zimmerman
he/him/his
Professor, Chemistry
Jian-Min Zuo
Professor, Materials Science and Eng.

Staff

Mohammad Amdad Ali
Research Scientist
Rajen Basu
he/him/his
Research Facilities Hourly
Paul V. Braun
Director, MRL
Steve Burdin
ACADEMIC HOURLY
C.Q. Chen
Senior Research Scientist
Emily E. Edwards
Managing Director, IQUIST
David Ehrhardt
Senior Research Engineer, AMTEL
Kristen M. Flatt
Research Scientist
Jeff Gaede
Business & Financial Coordinator
Josh Genung
he/him/his
Associate IT Specialist - Engineering IT Shared Services
Angela Marie Graham
ASST DIR, IQUIST
Jodi Gritten
Office Administrator
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
Ying He
Research Scientist
Diamond Hilson
she/her/hers
Storekeeper I (Intern)
Soroush Hoseini
choose not to reply
ACADEMIC HOURLY
Mrinal Hota
he/him/his
Research Scientist
Pinshane Huang
ASSOC DIR, MRL
Douglas A. Jeffers
Coordinator, Molecular Beam Epitaxy Facility
Toyanath Joshi
Research Scientist
Maisie Lee Kingren
Safety Engineer
Peter Kurath
Senior Research Engineer, AMTEL; Research Associate Professor, Mechanical Science and Eng.
Betsy Lancaster
Office Administrator
Monica Liu
Assistant Director for Administration
Susan K. Logan
Office Administrator
Juan Sebastian Lopez
Research Scientist
Gregory MacDougall
Research Assistant Professor, MRL
Sid Majumdar
he/him/his
Associate IT Specialist - Engineering IT Shared Services
Nick Menacher
Research Program Coordinator
Jason Meyers
he/him/his
SR RES SCI
Lou Ann Miller
MRL Facilities Academic Hourly
Alessandro Munafo
RES SCIENTIST
Tyler Owens
IT Specialist - Engineering IT Shared Services
Marco Panesi
DIR, CHESS
Pamela A. Pena Martin
Research Program Manager
Gianni Pezzarossi
Computational System Analyst - Engineering IT Shared Services
Summer Redman
HR Coordinator, Engineering HR Shared Services
Roddel Remy
Research Scientist
Mauro Sardela
he/him/his
Director of Research Facilities
Allison Sibert
Instrumentation Specialist
Rafael Silva Goncalves
Research Scientist
Michael A. Smith
he/him/his
OUTR & EDUC COORD
Patrick Jay Snyder
Research Program Manager, IQUIST
Julio Antonio Nieri D Soares
Senior Research Scientist
Timothy Spila
Senior Research Scientist
Matthew Thomas Steele
ACADEMIC HOURLY
Kelly Stephani
ASSOC DIR, CHESS
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
he/him/his
Associate Director for Administration
Guang Yue
Research Scientist
Honghui Zhou
Senior Research Scientist