Department Chair
Paul P.H. Wilson
Department Chair, Grainger Professor of Nuclear Engineering
Contact: paul.wilson@wisc.edu, (608) 263-0807
Research interests: Monte Carlo methods, Nuclear fuel cycles, Energy policy, Proliferation analysis, Transmutation/depletion/activation
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Other affiliations: Wisconsin Institute of Nuclear Systems (WINS)
Associate Chairs
Matt Allen
Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies, Professor
Contact: msallen@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 890-1619
Also: Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering
Research interests: Dynamics, vibrations and controls, micro/nano systems, uncertainty and stochastic systems, linear/nonlinear system identification, model reduction/substructuring
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Wendy Crone
Associate Chair for Faculty and Staff Development, Karen Thompson Medhi Professor
Contact: crone@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-8384
Also: Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering
Research interests: Experimental mechanics of materials, characterization hydrogels and biomaterials, therapeutic medical devices, stem cell mechanics
Oliver Schmitz
Associate Chair for Research and Infrastructure, Professor
Contact: oschmitz@wisc.edu, (608) 263-1547
Research interests: Plasma Edge Physics, Plasma Wall Interaction, Three-Dimensional Plasma Edge Transport and Wall Interaction, Helicon Plasma Generation and Sustainment, Active Plasma and Neutral Spectroscopy, Plasma Sources and ...
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Other affiliations: Physics
Carl Sovinec
Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, Thomas and Suzanne Werner Professor
Contact: csovinec@wisc.edu, (608) 263-5525
Research interests: Computational plasma physics--computational fluid dynamics--magnetohydrodynamics--numerical methods for partial differential equations
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Other affiliations: Physics
Faculty
James P Blanchard
Thomas and Suzanne Werner Professor
Contact: jake.blanchard@wisc.edu, (608) 265-2001
Also: Engineering Professional Development
Research interests: Thermomechanical design for high heat fluxes, fusion technology, radiation damage, nuclear microbatteries
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Other affiliations: Wisconsin Institute of Nuclear Systems (WINS)
Riccardo Bonazza
Professor
Contact: riccardo.bonazza@wisc.edu, (608) 265-2337
Also: Mechanical Engineering
Research interests: Experimental fluid mechanics , impulsive, unsteady phenomena, shock tube applications, laser and X-ray imaging & measuring techniques
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Other affiliations: Nuclear Engineering
Curt A. Bronkhorst
Professor
Contact: cbronkhorst@wisc.edu, (608) 890-2586
Also: Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering
Research interests: Theoretical/computational mechanics of materials, computational plasticity, multi-scale material modeling, damage mechanics, single crystal plasticity, dynamic material behavior, structural phase transformation...
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Jennifer Choy
Assistant Professor
Contact: jennifer.choy@wisc.edu, (608) 263-6974
Also: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering
Research interests: Quantum engineering; atomic and optical physics; nanophotonics; development and characterization of solid-state defects; quantum sensing using atoms and defects in solids; inertial navigation and timekeeping
Adrien Couet
Assistant Professor
Contact: couet@wisc.edu, (608) 265-7955
Also: Materials Science and Engineering
Research interests: Nuclear Materials, Irradiation Damage, Corrosion of Metals and Alloys, Oxidation Model, Electrochemistry, Synchrotron Radiation, Defect Transport in Oxides
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Jennifer Franck
Assistant Professor
Contact: jafranck@wisc.edu, (608) 263-2562
Also: Mechanical Engineering
Research interests: Computational fluid dynamics, unsteady fluid mechanics, turbulent flows, wind and tidal energy, aerodynamics, flow control, propulsion, fluid-structure interaction
Benedikt Geiger
Assistant Professor
Contact: benedikt.geiger@wisc.edu, (608) 262-3386
Research interests: Benedikt Geiger started his career at UW-Madison in February 2019 and is involved in the physics exploitation of the HSX stellarator experiment. His research interests are the experimental investigation of turb...
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Chris Hegna
Harvey D. Spangler Professor
Contact: cchegna@wisc.edu, (608) 263-0810
Research interests: Theoretical plasma physics, fusion science, magnetic confinement of plasmas, magnetohydrodynamics
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Other affiliations: Physics
Douglass Henderson
Harvey D. Spangler Professor
Contact: henderson@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 263-0808
Also: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Reactor physics, radiation transport, fusion reactor technology, nuclear waste
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Other affiliations: Medical Physics
Roderic Lakes
Wisconsin Distinguished Professor
Contact: lakes@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 265-8697
Also: Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering
Research interests: Novel materials including composites and cellular solids, Viscoelastic materials, Biomechanics and bio-materials, Experimental characterization of materials, Extreme physical properties
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Other affiliations: Rheology Research Center
Jacob Notbohm
Harvey D. Spangler Assistant Professor
Contact: jknotbohm@wisc.edu, (608) 890-0030
Also: Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Solid mechanics | biomechanics | cell mechanics | biomaterials | collective cell migration | optical microscopy | adhesion
Leslie Smith
Professor
Contact: lsmith@math.wisc.edu, (608) 263-5498
Also: Mechanical Engineering
Research interests: Statistical physics, turbulence and turbulence modeling for engineering and geophysical applications, applied mathematics, stability theory and fluid dynamics, field theoretical techniques, the dynamic renormal...
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Other affiliations: Mathematics
Kumar Sridharan
Professor, Department of Engineering Physics and Materials Science & Engineering,
Fellow of American Society for Materials, Fellow of Institute of Materials, UK
Contact: kumar.sridharan@wisc.edu, (608) 263-4789
Also: Materials Science and Engineering
Research interests: Nuclear reactor materials research and development, Irradiation effects in materials, Corrosion of materials, High temperature materials, Physical metallurgy and mechanical behavior of materials, Ion implantati...
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Other affiliations: Manufacturing Systems Engineering Program
Ramathasan Thevamaran
Assistant Professor
Contact: thevamaran@wisc.edu, (608) 262-5724
Also: Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering
Research interests: Mechanical behavior of structured materials | Dynamic properties | Hierarchical materials | Nanomaterials | Metamaterials | Wave propagation | Experimental techniques
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Fabian Waleffe
Professor
Contact: fabian.waleffe@wisc.edu, (608) 263-3269
Research interests: Fluid dynamics, bifurcations and turbulence, scientific computing
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Other affiliations: Applied Mathematics, Engineering and Physics Program, Engineering Mechanics, Mathematics, Mathematics and Computation in Engineering Graduate Program
Robert J. Witt
Associate Professor
Contact: witt@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 263-2760
Research interests: Computational methods in fluid and solid mechanics
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Yongfeng Zhang
Assistant Professor
Contact: yzhang2446@wisc.edu, (608) 890-3779
Also: Materials Science and Engineering
Research interests: Multiscale modeling and simulation of materials aging and degradation in extreme conditions:Irradiation effect , Mechanical degradation , Cossion and stress corrosion cracking
Faculty Associates
John Murphy
Researcher
Contact: jmurphy@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 265-4186
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Sonny Nimityongskul
Associate Faculty Associate
Contact: apnimityongs@wisc.edu
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Adjunct Professors
Jan Willem Coenen
Adjunct Professor
Contact: jcoenen2@wisc.edu
Research interests: Materials Research for FusionRadiation Resistant Materials, High HeatFlux Materials, Tungsten Fibre reinforced Tungsten, Self-passivating alloys, Liquid Metal Walls for fusion, Wendelstein 7-XJ...
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Stephanie Diem
Adjunct Professor
Contact: sjdiem@wisc.edu
Research interests:
- Experimental plasma physics, magnetically confined plasmas, microwave heating and current drive, electron Bernstein wave emission, heating and current drive, understanding a...
Timothy Tautges
Adjunct Professor
Contact: tautges@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 263-8485
Research interests: Magnetohydrodynamic Instabilities and their Control, Microwave Heating, Current Drive and Diagnostics, Plasma Physics and Magnetic Confinement Fusion
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Honorary Scientist
Honorary Associate
Raluca Scarlat
Honorary Associate (UC-Berkeley)
Contact: scarlat@berkeley.edu
Also: Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering
Research interests: Heat and mass transport, nuclear reactor safety, thermal-hydraulics, fluoride-salt cooled high temperature reactors (FHR), tritium transport and salt electrochemistry, salt freezing and overcooling transients, ...
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Affiliate Faculty
Mark Anderson
Assistant Professor
Contact: manderson@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 263-2802
Also: Mechanical Engineering
Research interests: My research covers a wide breadth of fundamental physics and applications all relating to advanced energy utilization, energy extraction and energy production with the main focus on experimental thermal h...
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Other affiliations: Wisconsin Energy Institute
Bryan Bednarz
Assistant Professor
Contact: bbednarz2@wisc.edu, (608) 262-5225
Research interests: Monte Carlo method, Proton therapy, Radiation protection
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Other affiliations: Medical Physics
Vicki M. Bier
Professor
Contact: bier@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-2064
Research interests: Security in the supply chains for food and agricultural products, critical infrastructure protection, security, technology hazards, risk analysis, decision analysis, operations research
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Other affiliations: Center for Human Performance and Risk Analysis
Jonathan Engle
Assistant Professor
Contact: jwengle@wisc.edu
Other affiliations: Medical Physics, Radiology
Michael David Graham
Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor and Harvey D. Spangler Professor
Contact: mdgraham@wisc.edu, (608) 265-3780
Also: Mechanical Engineering
Research interests: Fluid dynamics, Locomotion of microorganisms, Blood flow at the cellular level, Dynamics of mechanically and geometrically complex objects suspended in a flowing fluid, Polymer, surfactant and suspension rholog...
Shimon Kolkowitz
Assistant Professor
Contact: kolkowitz@wisc.edu, (608) 262-2865
Other affiliations: Physics
Daniel Ludois
Associate Professor, Dugald C. Jackson Faculty Scholar
Contact: ludois@wisc.edu, 262-8211
Also: Mechanical Engineering
Research interests: Power electronics, Electric machines, Non-contact power transfer, Sustainable engineering technologies and practices, See Extended Homepage
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Other affiliations: Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium
Zhenqiang Ma
Lynn H. Matthias Professor in Engineering & Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor
Contact: mazq (at) engr dot wisc dot edu, (608) 261-1095
Also: College of Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering
Research interests: Current Research Pursuits:Lattice mis-matched semiconductor heterostructures: materials, physics and related various device applications, Flexible/stretchable/wearable electronics/optoelectronics, Bioelectronic...
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Other affiliations: Wisconsin Energy Institute
Franklin Miller
Associate Professor
Contact: fkmiller@wisc.edu, (608) 263-2479
Research interests: Cryogenics, Thermodynamics of Superfluid 3He-4He mixtures, Sub-Kelvin cooling for space science, Energy Systems
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Dane Morgan
Harvey D. Spangler Professor of Engineering
Contact: ddmorgan@wisc.edu, (608) 265-5879
Also: College of Engineering
Research interests: Computational materials science for materials design, Ab initio electronic structure and multiscale methods for large time / length scales and thermokinetics, Ab initio based modeling of electrochemical systems...
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Gregory F. Nellis
William A. and Irene Ouweneel-Bascom Professor
Contact: gfnellis@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 265-6626
Research interests: Please visit the Solar Energy Lab web page, http://sel.me.wisc.edu/, in order to learn more about the ongoing projects.
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John Pfotenhauer
Professor
Contact: pfot@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 263-4082
Research interests: Low temperature refrigeration, cryogenics, applied superconductivity
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Warren P. Porter
Professor
Contact: wpporter@wisc.edu, (608) 262-1719
Research interests: Infectious disease, Toxicology, Population dynamics, Physiological ecology, Biophysical ecology
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Pavana Prabhakar
Assistant Professor, Charles G. Salmon Fellow of Structural Engineering
Contact: pavana.prabhakar@wisc.edu
Research interests: Damage and failure mechanics of structural composite materials, life prediction of materials in extreme multi-physics environment; Advanced manufacturing of materials - additive manufacturing of hybrid material...
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Other affiliations: Wisconsin Structures and Materials Testing Laboratory
Ian Robertson
Professor and Dean of the College of Engineering
Contact: ian.robertson@wisc.edu
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David Rothamer
Associate Professor
Contact: rothamer@wisc.edu, 608.890.2271
Research interests: Laser based diagnostics, Internal combustion engines, Soot formation, Influence of fuel properties on combustion
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Other affiliations: Engine Research Center
Izabela Szlufarska
Harvey D. Spangler Professor of Engineering
Contact: szlufarska@wisc.edu, (608) 265-5878
Research interests: Computational materials science, Mechanical behavior at the nanoscale, Defect behavior in semiconductors and insulators under irradiation, Solid/liquid interfaces, Nucleation and kinetics of medium range order ...
Dan J Thoma
Professor and Director of the Grainger Institute for Engineering
Contact: dthoma@wisc.edu, (608) 262-3751
Also: Mechanical Engineering
Research interests: Metal additive manufacturing, Alloy design, Advanced materials for energy applications, Phase transformations for functional materials, High throughput experiments, Thermal analysis and dilatometry
Other affiliations: Grainger Institute for Engineering
Bruce R. Thomadsen
Professor
Contact: brthomad@wisc.edu, (608) 263-4183
Also: Industrial and Systems Engineering
Research interests: Brachytherapy Physics, Radiation Dosimetry, Patient Safety
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Other affiliations: Medical Physics, Human Oncology, Center for Human Performance and Risk Analysis
Mario F. Trujillo
Associate Professor
Contact: mtrujillo@wisc.edu, (608) 262-0944
Research interests: Modeling and Simulation of two-phase flows including:i) Liquid sprays in a crossflow (desuperheating and Urea SCR applications), ii) Liquid breakup and particle advection dynamics, iii) Multiple droplet impinge...
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Other affiliations: Engine Research Center
Ray Vanderby
Professor
Contact: vanderby@ortho.wisc.edu, (608) 263-9593
Also: Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering
Research interests: Tissue mechanics (bone, ligament, tendon, and cartilage), tissue engineering and regeneration, tissue healing, orthopedic biomechanics
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Emeritus Faculty
Said Abdel-Khalik
Professor Emeritus
Contact: said.abdelkhalik@me.gatech.edu
Research interests: Reactor engineering, reactor safety, two phase flow, and thermal hydraulics
Todd Allen
Emeritus Professor
Contact: allen@engr.wisc.edu
Also: Materials Science and Engineering
Research interests: Materials for nuclear energy system, fission reactors, nuclear fuels, energy policy, sustainability of nuclear energy
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Joseph Bisognano
Professor Emeritus
Contact: jbisognano@src.wisc.edu, (608) 877-2163
Research interests: Free Electron Lasers, Physics of particle beams, Accelerator physics, Theoretical analysis and simulation of collective phenomena in particle beams
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Other affiliations: Synchrotron Radiation Center
James Callen
Professor Emeritus
Contact: callen@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-1370
Research interests: Controlled thermonuclear fusion, theoretical and computational plasma physics, magnetic confinement of plasmas, nuclear fission
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Other affiliations: Pegasus Plasma Experiment
Max Carbon
Professor Emeritus
Contact: carbon@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 263-2307
Research interests: Nuclear reactor safety, nuclear power
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Other affiliations: Nuclear Engineering
Richard J. Cashwell
Emeritus Reactor Director
Contact: cashwell@facstaff.wisc.edu, (608) 262-3392
Research interests: Neutron activation analysis, nuclear reactor operations
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Other affiliations: Nuclear Engineering, University of Wisconsin Nuclear Reactor
John R. Conrad
Wisconsin Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Contact: conrad@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 263-1609
Also: Materials Science Program
Research interests: Plasma physics, plasma technology, ion beam modification of materials, ion implantation
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Other affiliations: Nuclear Engineering
Robert Cook
Professor Emeritus
Contact: cook@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-0958
Research interests: Finite element methods, structural mechanics, stress analys
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Michael Corradini
Wisconsin Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Contact: corradini@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 263-1648
Also: Mechanical Engineering
Research interests: Multi-phase fluid mechanics and heat transfer, fission and fusion reactors, nuclear reactor safety, severe accident phenomena, power plant operation and design, energy policy, nuclear fuel cycle
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Other affiliations: Wisconsin Shock Tube
Paul DeLuca Jr.
Professor
Contact: pmdeluca@facstaff.wisc.edu, (608) 265-0523
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Other affiliations: Medical Physics
Walter Drugan
Professor Emeritus
Contact: drugan (AT) engr.wisc.edu
Also: Materials Science and Engineering
Research interests: Continuum mechanics analyses of behavior of modern materials, nonlinear fracture mechanics of ductile materials (single- and poly-crystalline) and interfaces, nonlocal constitutive models of composite materials...
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Other affiliations: Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
Frederick Elder
Adjunct Professor Emeritus
Contact: elder@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 263-9328
Research interests: Mechanical systems, energy systems design
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Gilbert Emmert
Professor Emeritus
Contact: emmert@engr.wisc.edu
Research interests: Plasma physics, fusion reactor physics, plasma-surface interactions, plasma processing
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Other affiliations: Nuclear Engineering
Raymond Fonck
Professor Emeritus
Contact: rjfonck@wisc.edu, (608) 263-7799
Research interests: Plasma & fusion science and technology, plasma turbulence, burning plasmas, tokamaks, alternative fusion schemes, atomic physics and applied optics, high temperature plasma diagnostics
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Other affiliations: Pegasus Plasma Experiment
Noah Hershkowitz
Irving Langmuir Professor Emeritus
Contact: hershkowitz@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 263-4970
Research interests: Plasma etching, plasm-aided manufacturing, basic plasma physics, ICRF effects, laboratory space plasma physics
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Other affiliations: Wisconsin Plasma Processing and Technology Research Consortium
Daniel Kammer
Professor Emeritus
Contact: kammer@engr.wisc.edu
Also: Mechanical Engineering
Research interests:
- system identification and damage detection, structural dynamics and vibration, uncertainty quantification and propagation, substructuring of systems, experimental substructuri...
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Other affiliations: Fusion Technology Institute
Gerald Kulcinski
Grainger Professor of Nuclear Engineering-Emeritus, Director, Fusion Technology In
Contact: glkulcin@wisc.edu, (608) 263-1601
Also: Materials Science and Engineering
Research interests: Magnetic/inertial fusion reactor systems studies, Radiation damage and nuclear materials, Near term applications of fusion energy, Lunar mining of helium-3
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Other affiliations: Nuclear Engineering
Thomas Rockwell Mackie
Professor Emeritus
Contact: trmackie@wisc.edu, (608) 262-7358
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Other affiliations: Medical Physics, Human Oncology, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, Morgridge Institute for Research
David Malkus
Professor Emeritus
Contact: malkus@engr.wisc.edu
Research interests: Applied mathematics, numerical methods in mechanics, rheology
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Other affiliations: Rheology Research Center
Gregory Moses
Spangler Professor Emeritus
Contact: gregory.moses@wisc.edu, (608) 265-6567
Research interests: Nuclear reactor physics, computational engr., radiation hydrodynamics, technology enhanced learning, fusion reactor design
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Other affiliations: Nuclear Engineering
Michael Plesha
Professor Emeritus
Contact: plesha@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-5741
Also: Geological Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
Research interests: Finite element analysis, discrete element analysis, dynamics of geologic media, constitutive modeling of geologic discontinuity behavior, soil structure interaction modeling, continuum modeling of jointed satur...
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Bela Sandor
Professor Emeritus
Contact: sandor@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 255-4222
Research interests: Ancient chariots: comprehensive mechanics analysis and humanistic aspects, stress-strain in materials, fatigue and fracture of engineering materials, structures, joint systems, damage alleviation; fracture...
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Other affiliations: Engineering Mechanics
Alois Schlack Jr.
Professor Emeritus
Contact: schlack@engr.wisc.edu
Research interests: Dynamics, vibrations, astrodynamic, dynamic stability analysis, rotating shaft-disc systems, elastic spacecraft dynamics
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Emeritus Research Professors
Laila A. El-Guebaly
Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus
Contact: laila.elguebaly@wisc.edu
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Other affiliations: Fusion Technology Institute
John Santarius
Research Professor Emeritus
Contact: santarius@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 263-1694
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Other affiliations: Fusion Technology Institute
Mohamed Sawan
Research Professor Emeritus
Contact: sawan@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 263-5093
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Other affiliations: Fusion Technology Institute