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Panayiotis Papadopoulos 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
headshot of Francisco Armero Francisco Armero
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
computational mechanics, nonlinear continuum mechanics
David Steigmann David J. Steigmann
Dept of Mechanical Engineering
finite elasticity, mechanics, continuum, shell theory, variational methods, stability, surface stress, capillary phenomena, mechanics of thin films
photo Dimitrios Konstantinidis
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
structural dynamics, earthquake engineering, nonstructural components, seismic isolation, passive control, engineering mechanics
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
Sanjay Govindjee 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
photo of Ziqi Ziqi Wang
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
structural engineering, mechanics and materials, structural reliability, earthquake engineering, uncertainty quantification
Kamrin headshot Ken Kamrin
Dept of Mechanical Engineering
solid and fluid mechanics, constitutive modeling, computational mechanics, physical applied mathematics
Michael Gollner smiles at a Fire Whirl Michael Gollner
Dept of Mechanical Engineering
combustion, fire dynamics, wildland fire, fluid mechanics
Khalid M. Mosalam Khalid M. Mosalam
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
bridges, concrete and masonry structures, damage mechanics, earthquake engineering, fracture mechanics, machine learning
Shirshendu Ganguly Shirshendu Ganguly
Dept of Statistics
probability theory, statistical mechanics
Eunyong Park Eunyong Park
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
protein function, Structural Biology, biochemistry, membrane proteins
Robert O. Ritchie 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
Martin P. Head-Gordon Martin P. Head-Gordon
Dept of Chemistry
theoretical chemistry, electronic structure calculations, development of novel theories and algorithms, quantum mechanics
picture of Robert Saxton Robert Saxton
Dept of Chemistry
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
immunology, protein engineering, chemical biology, Structural Biology, inflammatory diseases
Kyriakos Komvopoulos Kyriakos Komvopoulos
Dept of Mechanical Engineering
contact mechanics, fracture and fatigue of engineering materials, finite element modeling of surface contact and machining, thin-film processing and characterization, adhesion and fatigue of MEMS devices, plasma-assisted surface functionalization of biomaterials, surface patterning for cell adhesion and growth control, mechanics & tribology of magnetic recording devices, microfibrous scaffolds for tissue engineering, tribology and mechanics of artificial joints, mechanical metamaterials
Susan Marqusee Susan Marqusee
Dept of Chemistry
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
amino acids, determinants of protein structure and folding, biophysical, structural and computational techniques, translocation, protein synthesis
headshot of Evan Variano Evan Variano
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
fluid mechanics, turbulence, wetlands, imaging, plankton, sediment transport
M. Reza Alam M. Reza Alam
Dept of Mechanical Engineering
Theoretical Fluid Dynamics, nonlinear wave mechanics, ocean and coastal waves phenomena, ocean renewable energy (wave, Tide and Offshore Wind Energy), Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, Fluid Flow Control, ocean renewable energy
head shot of James Hurley James Hurley
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
Structural Biology, reconstitution, membrane biology, autophagy, HIV, x-ray crystallography, cryo-electron microscopy
Naomi Ginsberg photo 2026 Naomi Ginsberg
Dept of Chemistry
Dept of Physics
condensed matter physics and material science, physical chemistry, statistical mechanics, biophysics, atomic molecular and optical physics
Steven E. Brenner Steven E. Brenner
Dept of Bioengineering
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology
molecular biology, computational biology, evolutionary biology, bioengineering, structural genomics, computational genomics, cellular activity, cellular functions, personal genomics
headshot of Raphael Bousso standing in breezeway of building Raphael Bousso
Dept of Physics
physics, quantum mechanics, gravity, unified description of nature, string theory, quantum properties of black holes, geometry of spacetime, covariant entropy bound, cosmological constant
Laurel Larsen Laurel Larsen
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Dept of Geography
hydroecology, geomorphology, complex systems, restoration ecology, environmental modeling, wetlands, sediment transport, environmental fluid mechanics
James Sethian James A. Sethian
Dept of Mathematics
mathematics, applied mathematics, partial differential equations, computational physics, level set Methods, computational fluid mechanics and materials sciences, fast marching methods
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