Panayiotis Papadopoulos Dept of Mechanical Engineering continuum mechanics, computational mechanics, contact mechanics, computational plasticity, materials modeling, solid mechanics, applied mathematics, dynamics of pseudo-rigid bodies
Lisa A. Pruitt Dept of Mechanical Engineering tissue biomechanics, biomaterial science, fatigue and fracture micromechanisms, orthopedic polymers for total joint replacement, synthetic cartilage
Kranthi K. Mandadapu Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering statistical mechanics, fluid mechanics, solid mechanics, biological membranes, active matter, glassy dynamics
Ahmad Omar Dept of Materials Science and Engineering statistical mechanics, active matter, biophysics, physical chemistry, polymer science, directed self-assembly
Phillip Messersmith Dept of Bioengineering Dept of Materials Science and Engineering adhesion, polymers, regenerative medicine, sustainable polymers, biomimetics, medical devices
Sanjay Govindjee Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering finite element analysis, Theoretical and computational solid mechanics, constitutive theory, micromechanics, polymer mechanics, elastomer modeling, battery modeling, thermomechanics, continuum mechanics, failure analysis
Clayton J. Radke Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering chemical engineering, surface & colloid science technology, protein/polymer/surfactant adsorption from solution, two-phase enzymatic catalysis, interfacial surfactant transport, electrokinetics, pore-level fluid mechanics, contact-lens & eye mechanics
Rui Wang Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering theoretical polymer, soft materials, electrostatic double layer
Nitash P. Balsara Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering electrochemical energy conversion, polymer properties, small angle scattering, nanoscale and microscale sciences
T. Don Tilley Dept of Chemistry inorganic, organometallic, polymer and materials chemistry, transition metal compounds, catalysis, new chemical transformations, advanced solid state materials, renewable energy, solar fuels
David Drubin Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology cellular morphogenesis, plasma membrane dynamics, microtubule cytoskeletons, cytoskeletal proteins, morphological development
Alanna Schepartz Dept of Chemistry Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology chemical biology, synthetic biology, organic chemistry, biophysics
Joseph Orenstein Dept of Physics optical properties of quantum materials, magnetism, superconductivity, spin transport
Eva Nogales Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology cryo-EM, biochemistry, complex biological assemblies, structure and regulation of the cytoskeleton, microtubule dynamics, human transcriptional initiation machinery, epigenetics, gene silencing, biophysics
Abby Dernburg Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology chromosome structure and function, higher order chromosome structure, cell cycle controls, chromosome remodeling and reorganization during meiosis, spatial pattern formation in eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells, genome mapping, eukaryotic genomes, whole-genome analysis
Polly Arnold Dept of Chemistry synthetic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, actinide, rare earth catalysis