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Department

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

Jie Yao

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

optical materials, nanophotonics, optoelectronics, magnetic materials, ferroelectrics

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

chemical engineering, nanoengineering, catalytic imprinted silicas, catalysts in biological systems, catalysis, chemical sensing

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

geometric and solid modeling, general purpose computation on the GPU (GPGPU), CAD/CAM, computational geometry, computer graphics and visualization, tool path planning, additive manufacturing, computer vision, Deep Learning

Hartmut Haeffner

Hartmut Haeffner

Dept of Physics

quantum information and computation, precision measurements, ion traps, quantum state engineering, decoherence, quantum simulations, quantum energy transport, quantum chaos, cryogenic electronics

Ting Xu in lab looking at samples

Ting Xu

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

polymer, nanocomposite, biomaterial, membrane, directed self-assembly, drug delivery, protein therapeutics, block copolymers, nanoparticles

Frances Hellman

Frances Hellman

Dept of Physics

condensed matter physics and materials science

Christopher E. Dames

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

nanostructured materials, thermal rectification, graphene, microscale heat transfer, nano scale heat transfer

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Courtney Desiree Morris

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

Black women's social movement, state violence and authoritarianism, racial formations in Latin American, racial formations in the Caribbean, racial formations in the U.S., feminist and queer theory, environmental ethics, Black visual culture and aestetics

Dmitry Taubinsky

Dmitry Taubinsky

Dept of Economics

behavioral economics, tax policy, soda taxes, payday loans, household consumption and portfolio choice, energy policy, health, gambling, state-run lotteries, inflation expectations, nudges

Dept of Nuclear Engineering

microscopy, nanomaterials, Nuclear materials, material science, radiation damage, corrosion in liquid metals, materials development, materials under extremes, nuclear applications, ion beam microscopy, nanoscale mechanical testing

Dept of Physics

physics, lasers, x-rays, plasma physics, materials, atomic physics, ultrafast science

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

geotechnical earthquake engineering, wireless sensors, seismic slope stability, seismic earth pressure, rock erosion, groundwater remediation, numerical modeling of solid-fluid interaction, geotechnical engineering, geological engineering

Robert O. Ritchie

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

structural materials, mechanical behavior in biomaterials, creep, fatigue and fracture of advanced metals, intermetallics, ceramics

K. Birgitta Whaley

K. Birgitta Whaley

Dept of Chemistry

quantum information and quantum computation, control and simulation of complex quantum systems, quantum effects in biological systems, quantum physics, quantum mechanics

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Physics

atomic molecular and optical physics, biophysics, condensed matter physics and material science

Oscar Dubon

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

magnetic, optical materials, processing, properties in electronic

Christine Rosen

Christine Meisner Rosen

Haas School of Business

American business history, green business, corporate environmental strategy and management, social science perspectives on green chemistry, climate change, efforts to transition to a clean energy system, clean energy system, history of and current developments in business leadership to mitigate global environmental problems

Stuart Bale

Dept of Physics

experimental space physics, plasma astrophysics, solar physics, low frequency radio astronomy

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

developmental biology, Xenopus laevis, Spemann's organizer, cortical rotation, cell cycle after fertilization, vegetal materials, blastula stage, egg cytoplasm

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Dept of Political Science

political science, social policy, comparative political economy, West European politics, French politics, relationship between partisanship and welfare reform in contemporary Western Europe

Jamie H. D. Cate

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

protein synthesis by the ribosome, RNA, antibiotics, human translation, escherichia coli

Alessandra Lanzara

Dept of Physics

materials science, ultrafast science, quantum materials, sustainable materials, topological phases of matter

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

air pollution, atmospheric chemistry, motor vehicle emissions, ozone, sustainable transportation, air quality, emission inventory, photochemical air quality modeling

Kevin J. O'Brien

Dept of Political Science

social movements, Chinese politics, peasant politics