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Peter Abbamonte
Professor, Physics
John R. Abelson
Professor Emeritus, Materials Science and Eng.
Leslie H. Allen
Associate Professor Emeritus, Materials Science and Eng.
Chris Anderson
he/him/his
Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Eng.
Robert S. Averback
Professor Emeritus, Materials Science and Eng.
Rashid Bashir
Dean, Grainger College of Engineering
Jeff Baur
Professor, Aerospace Eng.
Pascal Bellon
Professor, Materials Science and Eng.
Alexey Bezryadin
Professor, Physics
Daniel J. Bodony
Professor, Aerospace Eng. Co-Director, CHESS
Paul V. Braun
Professor and Director, MRL
David Cahill
Professor, Materials Science and Eng.
Lili Cai
Assistant Professor, Mechanical 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
Eric Chitambar
Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engr
S. Lance Cooper
Professor, Physics
Jacob P. Covey
Assistant Professor, Physics
Brian Leeds DeMarco
Professor, Physics; Director, IQUIST
Ying Diao
Associate Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Eng.
Dana D. Dlott
Research Professor, MRL; Professor Emeritus, Chemistry
James N. Eckstein
he/him/his
Professor, Physics
David Ehrhardt
Research Assistant Professor, AMTEL
Gregory S. Elliott
Professor, Aerospace Eng.
Elif Ertekin
she/her/hers
Associate Professor, Mechanical Science and Eng.
Rosa M. Espinosa Marzal
Professor, Civil Eng. and Materials Science and Eng.
Chris Evans
he/him/his
Associate Professor, Materials Science and Eng.
Randy H. Ewoldt
he/him/his
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
Lynford L. Goddard
he/him/his
Professor, Electrical and Computer Eng.
Elizabeth Goldschmidt
she/her/hers
Assistant Professor, Physics
Bumsoo Han
he/him/his
Professor, Mechanical Science and Eng.
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
Sean Kearney
Professor, Aerospace Eng. Co-Director, CHESS
Paul J.A. Kenis
Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Eng.
Hyunseok Kim
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Eng.
Bill King
Professor, Mechanical Science and Eng.
Angela Kou
Assistant Professor, Physics
Waltraud M. Kriven
Professor, Materials Science and Eng.
Daniel Vincent Krogstad
RES ASSOC PROF, MRL
Jessica Anne Krogstad
Associate Professor, Materials Science and Eng.
Paul G. Kwiat
Professor, Physics
Christy Landes
she/her/hers
Professor, Chemistry
Cecilia Leal
Associate Professor, Materials Science and Eng.
Tonghun Lee
Professor, Mechanical Science and Eng.
Yuanwei Li
Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Eng.
Stephan Link
he/him/his
Professor, Chemistry
Virginia Lorenz
Associate Professor, Physics
Callan Luetkemeyer
she/her/hers
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Science and Eng.
Gregory MacDougall
Research Associate Professor, MRL
Vidya Madhavan
Professor, Physics
Fahad Mahmood
Assistant Professor, Physics
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
Assistant Professor, Aerospace Eng.
Lisa Olshansky
Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Francesco Panerai
Assistant Professor, Aerospace Eng.
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
R. Mohan Sankaran
Professor, Nuclear, Plasma & Radiological Eng.
Andre Schleife
he/him/his
Associate Professor, Materials Science and Eng.
Ken 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.
Benjamin Edward Reiners Snyder
Assistant Professor, Chemistry
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
he/him/his
Professor, Materials Science and Eng.
Arend van der Zande
Associate Professor, Mechanical Science and Eng.
Lorenzo Vergari
Assistant Professor, Nuclear, Plasma & Radiological Eng.
Smitha Vishveshwara
Professor, Physics
Joshua Vura-Weis
Associate Professor, Chemistry
Hua Wang
Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Eng.
Pengjie Wang
he/him/his
Assistant Professor, Physics
Pingfeng Wang
Professor, Industrial & Enterprise Systems Eng.
Janelle Wharry
she/her/hers
Professor, Mechanical Science and Eng.
Hong Yang
Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Eng.
Cunjiang Yu
he/him/his
Founder Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Beniamin Zahirisabzevar
Research Assistant Professor, MRL
Yingjie Zhang
Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Eng.
Wenjie Zhou
he/him/his
Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Eng.
Yuecheng Peter Zhou
Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Eng.

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