The Grainger College of Engineering
Materials Research Laboratory

Staff

Mohammad Amdad Ali
Research Scientist
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
Hal Cambier
he/him/his
Senior Research Scientist, CHESS
C.Q. Chen
Senior Research Scientist
Brian Leeds DeMarco
Director, IQUIST
Matthew Dick
Research Program Coordinator, CHESS
David Ehrhardt
Research Assistant Professor, AMTEL
Kristen M. Flatt
Research Scientist
Jeff Gaede
Business & Financial Coordinator
Steph Gilmore
Office Manager, IQUIST
Michael E. Goggin
he/him/his
ACADEMIC HOURLY
Elizabeth Goldschmidt
she/her/hers
ASSOC DIR, IQUIST
Angela Marie Graham
ASST DIR, IQUIST
Jodi Gritten
Office Administrator
Kim Gudeman
Director of Research Communications, GCoE Marketing & Communications
Spencer W. Gunning
they/them/theirs
IT Specialist - Engineering IT Shared Services
Richard T. Haasch
Senior Research Scientist
Bobbi Hardy
she/her/hers
Customer Relations Manager - Engineering IT Shared Services
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
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
Gregory MacDougall
Research Associate Professor, MRL
Pranav Mahaadev
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
Alessandro Munafo
he/him/his
RES SCIENTIST
Marco Panesi
Director, CHESS
Travis Path
he/him/his
Senior IT Specialist - Engineering IT Shared Services
Summer Redman
she/her/hers
Senior HR Coordinator, Engineering HR Shared Services
Roddel Remy
Research Scientist
Nick Sans
he/him/his
Mauro Sardela
he/him/his
Director of Research Facilities
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
Kelly Stephani
Associate Director, CHESS
Hannah Elizabeth Stites
she/her/hers
Research Program Coordinator, IQUIST
Pengcheng Sun
Research Scientist
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