Faculty

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Franklin Hobbs


Assistant Teaching Professor

Contact: fhobbs@wisc.edu, (608) 262-3971

Research interests: Teaching and Learning, Course Development, Diversity and Inclusion, Earth and Natural Materials, Crystallography, Crystal Chemistry

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Adjunct

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Joseph Jakes


Adjunct Professor


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Samuel L Zelinka


Adjunct Faculty

Contact: slzelinka@wisc.edu, (608) 231-9277

Research interests: Wood, wood-moisture relations, natural materials, corrosion,  thermodynamics, kinetics


 

Affiliates

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Uwe Bergmann


Professor

Contact: UBERGMANN@WISC.EDU, (650) 387-4135


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AJ Boydston


Associate Professor of Chemistry

Contact: aboydston@wisc.edu

Also: Chemical and Biological Engineering

Research interests: Additive manufacturing (3D printing), photoredox-catalyzed polymerizations, polymerizations in continuous flow, mechanochemistry

Other affiliations: Chemistry, Materials Science and Engineering


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Victor Brar


Assistant Professor of Physics

Contact: vbrar@wisc.edu, (608) 262-1139

Research interests: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, 2D materials, magnetic materials, optics, metasurfaces, thermal emission 


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Weibo Cai


Associate Professor

Contact: wcai@uwhealth.org, (608) 262-1749

Also: Materials Science and Engineering

Research interests: Molecular Imaging, Nanotechnology/Nanomedicine, Biomaterials, Positron Emission Tomography, Cancer Research, Cardiovascular Research, Radiochemistry

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Other affiliations: Radiology


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Pupa Gilbert


Professor

Contact: pupa@physics.wisc.edu

Other affiliations: Physics


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Shaoqin Sarah Gong


Vilas Distinguished Professor, Advancing Vision Science Chair Professor,
and RRF Edwin and Dorothy Gamewell Professor

Contact: shaoqingong@wisc.edu, (608) 316-4311

Also: Materials Science and Engineering

Research interests: Biomaterials (e.g., multifunctional drug nanocarriers, theranostic nanomedicines, and  tissue engineering scaffolds), and functional devices., Prof. Gong's lab currently has openings for graduate stud...

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Other affiliations: Chemistry, School of Medicine and Public Health, UW Carbone Cancer Center, UW Eye Research Institute, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, Wisconsin Stem Cell Research Program


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Sundaram Gunasekaran


Professor

Contact: guna@wisc.edu, (608) 262-1019

Also: Biological Systems Engineering

Research interests: Nanotechnology and biosensing for food, biological, biomedical, and environmental applications.


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Quanyin Hu


Assistant Professor

Contact: qhu66@wisc.edu, (608) 262-3814

Research interests: Drug delivery, Cell engineering, Cell therapy, Immunotherapy, Nanotechnology/Nanomedicine, Biomaterials, Material Sciences


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Song Jin


Professor of Chemistry

Contact: jin@chem.wisc.edu, (608) 262-1562

Research interests: Physical and chemical propertes of molecular-based materials, molecular electronics, nanoscale assembly techniques for molecular systems, chemical and structural characterization of surfaces, interfaces between...

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Robert McDermott


Assistant Professor

Contact: rfmcdermott@wisc.edu, (608) 263-4476

Research interests: Condensed Matter: Quantum coherence and entanglement of superconducting integrated circuits, quantum-limited amplifiers, application of SQUIDs to magnetic resonance detection.

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Other affiliations: Physics


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Tim Osswald


Kuo K. and Cindy F. Wang Professor Emeritus

Contact: tosswald@wisc.edu, (608) 263-9538

Also: Materials Science and Engineering

Research interests: Plastics Design, Extrusion, Injection Molding, Blow Molding, Film Blowing, Compression Molding, Composites, Modeling and Simulation in Polymer Processing and Composites, Biopolymers, Intellectual Property, Ethi...

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Other affiliations: Rheology Research Center


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Mark Rzchowski


Associate Professor

Contact: mark@cheddar.physics.wisc.edu, (608) 265-2876

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Other affiliations: Physics


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Tiancheng Song


Assistant Professor

Contact: tsong47@wisc.edu

Also: Physics

Other affiliations: Physics


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Huifang Xu


Assistant Professor

Contact: hfxu@geology.wisc.edu, (608) 265-5887

Research interests: Nano-structured nanoporous materials for environmental management, heterogeneous photocatalytic materials, biomimetic growth of crystals, andapplications of transmission electron microscopy and scanning transmi...

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Other affiliations: Geological Engineering


 

Emeritus Faculty

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Susan Babcock


Professor Emerita

Contact: babcock@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 263-5696

Research interests: Crystal defect microstructures, microstructure in films and engineered substrates of/for compound semiconductors, applications of electron microscopy and atom probe tomography in materials research ,  

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Bezalel C. Haimson


Professor Emeritus

Contact: bhaimson@wisc.edu, (608) 262-2563

Also: Geological Engineering

Research interests: Rock mechanics, failure modes in rocks, true triaxial strength criteria, borehole instability and breakouts, strain localization in high porosity sandstones and compaction bands, rock stress and in situ stress ...

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Eric E. Hellstrom


Professor Emeritus

Contact: hellstrom@engr.wisc.edu, (850) 645-7489

Also: Materials Science Program

Research interests: Synthesis, characterization and application of electrical ceramics, solid electrolytes, high-temperature oxide superconductors

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Sindo Kou


Professor

Contact: kou@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-0576

Also: Materials Science and Engineering

Research interests: My research work has been on understanding and controlling cracking, segregation, microstructure and transport phenomena during welding, casting and crystal growth. Examples of my current interests in welding i...

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Max G. Lagally


Erwin W. Mueller Professor and Bascom Professor of Surface Science

Contact: lagally@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 332-4581

Research interests: Nanoscale properties of surfaces, interfaces, thin films, and dimensionally confined structures, Atom-scale mechanisms of film growth: Group IV semiconductors, nano-strain engineering, silicon nanomembranes, re...

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Other affiliations: Physics


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Roderic Lakes


Wisconsin Distinguished Professor

Contact: lakes@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 265-8697

Also: Biomedical Engineering, Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics, 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


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David Larbalestier


Professor Emeritus

Contact: larbales@engr.wisc.edu

Also: Materials Science Program

Research interests: Metallurgical manufacturing processes, solidification in casting/welding operations, ductile cast irons, struture morphology, aluminum casting alloys, refinement/modification, primary phase morphology, thermal ...

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Other affiliations: Physics


 

 

Administrative Staff

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Julie Breitbach


Accountant II

Contact: julie.breitbach@wisc.edu, (608) 265-5960

Also: College of Engineering


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Brandon Denney


Research Administrator

Contact: mbdenney@wisc.edu, (608) 262-4750

Also: College of Engineering


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Cheryl Harris


Administrative Manager

Contact: cjharris5@wisc.edu, (608) 262-1608

Also: College of Engineering


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Chris Kailhofer


Senior Instrumentation Technologist

Contact: chris.kailhofer@wisc.edu, (608) 262-8175


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Noelle Lawton


Research Administrator

Contact: noelle.lawton@wisc.edu, (608) 890-3624


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Gabrielle Ledesma


Administrative Assistant III

Contact: gledesma@wisc.edu, (608) 890-2505


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Cynthia Rothwell


Department Administrator

Contact: crothwell@wisc.edu, (608) 265-4970


 

Director of Development

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Andrew Snyderman


Director of Development


 

Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) Staff

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AnneLynn Gillian-Daniel


Faculty Associate


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Shelly Grandell


Assistant Director of Education and Outreach


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Kerri Phillips


MRSEC Assistant Administrative Director

Contact: kphillips22@wisc.edu, 608.263.4616


 

Student Services Staff


 

Technical Staff

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Ryan Jacobs


Scientist II

Contact: rjacobs3@wisc.edu

Research interests: My work combines atomistic modeling, data science and machine learning to understand the structure and properties of materials at the atomic scale to understand, discover and design novel functional ...


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Rb Jacobson


Researcher I


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Alexander V. Kvit


Assistant Scientist

Contact: kvit@wisc.edu, (608) 265-4458



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Donald E. Savage


Associate Scientist

Contact: dsavage@wisc.edu, (608) 263-0831


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Shelley Scott


Associate Scientist


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Jianqi Xi


Scientist I

Contact: JXI4@WISC.EDU, (865) 387-1663