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
Alp Sipahigil Dept of Physics Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS) solid-state devices and technology, quantum technologies
Peidong Yang Dept of Chemistry materials chemistry, solid state chemistry, nanoscience, energy science, semiconductor nanowires, nanophotonics, artificial photosynthesis, electrochemistry, photoelectrochemistry, electrocatalysis, photocatalysis
Robert 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
Costas J. Spanos Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS) integrated circuits, solid-state devices, sensors, semiconductor manufacturing, energy efficiency, smart buildings
Franco Zunino Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering cement chemistry, advanced characterization methods for cementitious materials, low-carbon concrete, supplementary cementitious materials, calcined clay technology, LCA of cement-based materials
Gabor A. Somorjai Dept of Chemistry physical chemistry, catalysis, surface science, low-energy electron diffraction, solid state chemistry, macroscopic surface phenomena, adhesion, lubrication, biocompatibility, bonding, reactivity at solid surfaces, scanning tunneling
Ming Wu Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS) silicon photonics, MEMS, photonic integrated circuits, data center networks, 3D sensing, solid state LiDAR, optofluidics
Mary Scott Dept of Materials Science and Engineering structural materials, electronic materials, magnetic materials, optical materials, chemical and electrochemical material
Tracy Becker Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering advanced structural systems, structural dynamics, structural design, earthquake engineering, isolation and other high performance systems, use of novel materials in design
Daryl C. Chrzan Dept of Materials Science and Engineering materials science and engineering, computational materials science, metals and metallic compounds, defects in solids, growth of nanostructures
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
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
Holger Mueller Dept of Physics atomic, molecular, optical physics, advanced electron microscopy, cryo-EM
Peter Hosemann 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
Burkhard Militzer Dept of Earth and Planetary Science density functional methods, equation of state calculations, planetary interiors, materials at high pressure, theoretical mineral physics, path integration Monte Carlo, planet formation, quantum Monte Carlo method
Zakaria Al Balushi Dept of Materials Science and Engineering electronics, magnetic and optical materials, quantum materials synthesis, optoelectronics
Jon Wilkening Dept of Mathematics applied mathematics, numerical analysis, computational solid and fluid mechanics
Per-Olof Persson Dept of Mathematics applied mathematics, numerical methods, computational fluid and solid mechanics
Jie Yao Dept of Materials Science and Engineering optical materials, nanophotonics, optoelectronics, magnetic materials, ferroelectrics
Alessandra Lanzara Dept of Physics materials science, ultrafast science, quantum materials, sustainable materials, topological phases of matter
Junqiao Wu Dept of Materials Science and Engineering semiconductors, nanotechnology, energy materials, condensed matter physics and materials science
Ken Kamrin Dept of Mechanical Engineering solid and fluid mechanics, constitutive modeling, computational mechanics, physical applied mathematics
Jonathan Weigel Haas School of Business political economy, state capacity, development, corruption, taxation, religion