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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.
Simeon Bogdanov
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
PROF, MRL
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
PROF, MRL
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
Paul J.A. Kenis
Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Eng.
Hyunseok Kim
ASST PROF, MRL
Bill King
Professor, Mechanical Science and Eng.
Angela Kou
Assistant Professor, Physics
Waltraud M. Kriven
PROF, MRL
Jessica Anne Krogstad
Associate Professor, Materials Science and Eng.
Paul G. Kwiat
Professor, Physics
Christy Landes
she/her/hers
PROF, MRL
Cecilia Leal
Associate Professor, Materials Science and Eng.
Tonghun Lee
Professor, Mechanical Science and Eng.
Stephan Link
he/him/his
PROF, MRL
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.
Ralph G. Nuzzo
Professor, Chemistry
Lisa Olshansky
Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Francesco Panerai
Assistant Professor, Aerospace Eng.
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
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
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
ASST PROF, MRL
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
Associate Professor, Mechanical 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.
Yuecheng Peter Zhou
ASST PROF, MRL
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Mohamed Aboukhatwa
SR RES SCI, IMI
Mohammad Amdad Ali
Research Scientist
Magdi Naim Azer
Rajen Basu
Research Scientist
John Benson
he/him/his
ACADEMIC HOURLY
Paul V. Braun
Director, MRL
Steve Burdin
ACADEMIC HOURLY
Alex Burke
Associate IT Specialist, Engineering IT Shared Services
Debbie Charles
she/her/hers
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C.Q. Chen
Senior Research Scientist
Brian Leeds DeMarco
Director, IQUIST
Matthew Dick
Research Program Coordinator, CHESS
Kristen M. Flatt
Research Scientist
Jeff Gaede
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Steph Gilmore
Office Manager, IQUIST
Michael E. Goggin
he/him/his
ACADEMIC HOURLY
Elizabeth Goldschmidt
she/her/hers
ASSOC DIR, IQUIST
Sandeep Gorantla
he/him/his
RES SCI
Angela Marie Graham
ASST DIR, IQUIST
Jodi Gritten
Office Administrator
Kim Gudeman
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Spencer W. Gunning
they/them/theirs
IT Specialist - Engineering IT Shared Services
Richard T. Haasch
Senior Research Scientist
Bobbi Hardy
she/her/hers
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Ying He
Research Scientist
Mrinal Hota
he/him/his
Research Scientist
Faren Hoveyda Marashi
Research Scientist
Pinshane Huang
Associate Director, MRL
Douglas A. Jeffers
Coordinator, Molecular Beam Epitaxy Facility
Toyanath Joshi
Research Scientist
Hyewon Kim
VST RES SPEC
Bill King
DIR, MFR INST
Maisie Lee Kingren
Safety Engineer
Peter Kurath
Senior Research Engineer, AMTEL; Research Associate Professor, Mechanical Science and Eng.
Betsy Lancaster
Office Administrator
Lauren Laws
Coordinator of Communications, GCoE Marketing & Communications
Soonjin Lee
she/her/hers
Business & Financial Coordinator
Monica Liu
Assistant Director for Administration
Miao Liu
she/her/hers
RES SCI
Susan K. Logan
Office Administrator
Juan Sebastian Lopez
Research Scientist
Tiit Lukk
he/him/his
Research Scientist
Jim Mabon
he/him/his
ACADEMIC HOURLY
Carlos Marquez
Associate IT Specialist - Engineering IT Shared Services
Nick Menacher
Research Program Coordinator
Jason Meyers
he/him/his
Senior Research Scientist, CHESS
Lou Ann Miller
MRL Facilities Academic Hourly
Travis Path
he/him/his
Senior IT Specialist - Engineering IT Shared Services
Donny Ray Pearson, Jr
he/him/his
ACADEMIC HOURLY
Summer Redman
she/her/hers
Senior HR Coordinator, Engineering HR Shared Services
Roddel Remy
Research Scientist
Mauro Sardela
he/him/his
Director of Research Facilities
Federico Sciammarella
Executive Director, IMI
Sam Shanes
he/him/his
RES ENGR
Allison Sibert
Instrumentation Specialist
Rafael Silva Goncalves
Research Scientist
Michael A. Smith
he/him/his
Outreach & Education Coordinator, IQUIST
Patrick Jay Snyder
Research Program Manager, IQUIST
Julio Antonio Nieri D Soares
Senior Research Scientist
Timothy Spila
Senior Research Scientist
Hannah Elizabeth Stites
she/her/hers
Research Program Coordinator, IQUIST
Pengcheng Sun
Research Scientist
Kay Tsai
RES PROG MGR
Rafael Villalon
Storekeeper I
Kathy Walsh
Senior Research Scientist
Xiaoli Wang
Senior Research Engineer
Jade Wang
Research Scientist
Zac Weisenbarn
he/him/his
Associate IT Specialist, Engineering IT Shared Services
Lon Alan Westfall
Research Engineer
Kris Williams
he/him/his
Associate Director for Administration
Stephen Yamaguchi
IT Specialist, Engineering IT Shared Services
Honghui Zhou
Senior Research Scientist