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SHAOFAN LI Shaofan Li
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in engineering and sciences, structural mechanics, computational mechanics, computational materials, computational mechanics and computational physics, finite element methods and meshfree particle methods, ferroelectric and piezoelectric materials, atomistic simulation and multiscale simulations, nonlinear continuum mechanics, soft matter mechanics, wave propagations, modeling and simulation of fracture, dislocations, modeling and simulation of material failures, nano-mechanics, bio-mechanics and bio-physics, cellular mechanics, micromechanics & composite materials, mechanics and physics of amorphous materials
Oskar Hallatschek Oskar Hallatschek
Dept of Physics
biophysics, evolutionary dynamics, soft matter, statistical physics, theory and experiments
Chung-Pei Ma Chung-Pei Ma
Dept of Astronomy
Dept of Physics
astrophysics, black hole, dark matter, cosmology, formation and evolution of galaxies, cosmic microwave background radiation
Prof. Liang Dai Liang Dai
Dept of Physics
astrophysics, physical cosmology
Dan Stamper-Kurn in laboratory Dan Stamper-Kurn
Dept of Physics
atomic physics, the use of ultra-cold neutral atoms, studies of microscopic and macroscopic quantum phenomena, cavity quantum electrodynamics, Bose-Einstein condensation, precision and quantum measurement
Jeffrey R. Long Jeffrey R. Long
Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Dept of Chemistry
inorganic and materials chemistry, synthesis of inorganic molecules and higher dimensional solids, precise tailoring of chemical and physical properties, gas storage, molecular separations and catalysis in porous materials, magnetic and conductive materials
Benjamin Safdi Benjamin Safdi
Dept of Physics
astrophysics, particle physics
William Holzpfel William Holzapfel
Dept of Physics
cosmology, physics, measurement and interpretation of anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background, the universe, density of energy, baryonic matter in the universe, the degree angular scale interferometer, the arcminute cosmology bolometer array
Kristin Persson holding molecule model Kristin Persson
Dept of Materials Science and Engineering
Lithium-ion Batteries, multivalent batteries, organic electrolytes, polar materials, datamining of materials properties for energy applications
Michael Manga Michael Manga
Dept of Earth and Planetary Science
hydrogeology, fluid mechanics, geomorphology, earth & planetary science, geological processes involving fluids, including problems in physical volcanology, geodynamics, dynamics of suspensions, flow & transport in porous materials, percolation theory
Mary Scott Mary Scott
Dept of Materials Science and Engineering
structural materials, electronic materials, magnetic materials, optical materials, chemical and electrochemical material
Zakaria Al Balushi Zakaria Al Balushi
Dept of Materials Science and Engineering
electronics, magnetic and optical materials, quantum materials synthesis, optoelectronics
George F. Smoot George F. Smoot
Dept of Physics
cosmology, physics, astrophysics experiments, observational astrophysics, observing our galaxy, the cosmic background radiation, ground-based radio-telescope observations, balloon-borne instrumentation, satellite experiments, the NASA cosmic background
headshot of Wick Haxton Wick Haxton
Dept of Physics
astrophysics, neutrino physics, nuclear astrophysics, tests of symmetries and conservation laws in nuclear and particle and atomic physics, many-body theory, effective theories
Andrew Minor Andrew Minor
Dept of Materials Science and Engineering
metallurgy, nanomechanics, electron microscopy, in situ TEM, electron microscopy of soft materials
headshot of Thomas Devine Thomas M. Devine
Dept of Materials Science and Engineering
corrosion resistance of materials, additive manufacturing of metals
Raphael Bousso Raphael Bousso
Dept of Physics
physics, quantum mechanics, gravity, unified description of nature, string theory, quantum properties of black holes, the geometry of spacetime, covariant entropy bound, cosmological constant
headshot of Weiqiang Zhu Weiqiang Zhu
Dept of Earth and Planetary Science
earthquake physics, geophysical signal discovery
John W. Morris John W. Morris, Jr
Dept of Materials Science and Engineering
structural materials, computational materials, the limits of strength, deformation mechanisms, non-destructive testing with SQUID microscopy, mechanisms of grain refinement in high strength steels, lead-free solders for microelectronics
Joelle Frechette Joelle Frechette
Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
soft materials, interfacial science, adhesion
Raymond Jenaloz Raymond Jeanloz
Dept of Astronomy
Dept of Earth and Planetary Science
planetary geophysics, high-pressure physics, national and international security, science-based policy
Headshot of Ezra Rubenstein Ezra Rubenstein
Dept of Philosophy
philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, metaphysics
Ramamoorthy Ramesh Ramamoorthy Ramesh
Dept of Materials Science and Engineering
Dept of Physics
Atomic-scale synthesis of complex oxide heterostructures, 2D materials, spin-charge coupling, polar and magnetic topologies, electron microscopy, piezoforce microscopy, NV magnetometry, materials processing for devices, energy efficient electronics(12634)
Shannon in lab Shannon Boettcher
Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Dept of Chemistry
electrochemistry, materials chemistry, heterogeneous catalysis, hydrogen generation, electrolysis, batteries, membrane science
Jie Yao Jie Yao
Dept of Materials Science and Engineering
optical materials, nanophotonics, optoelectronics, magnetic materials, ferroelectrics
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