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Materials Science and Engineering

Department Chair

Izabela Szlufarska

Harvey D. Spangler Professor of Engineering and Department Chair

Contact: szlufarska@wisc.edu, (608) 262-1821

Also: Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics

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 ...

Faculty

Michael S. Arnold

Professor and Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies

Contact: michael.arnold@wisc.edu, (608) 262-3863

Chang-beom Eom

Raymond R. Holton Chair for Engineering and Theodore H. Geballe Professor

Contact: eom@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 263-6305

Research interests: Nanostructure fabrications of novel materials, Hetroepitaxy of complex oxide thin films and heterostructures

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Other affiliations: Physics

Paul Evans

Professor

Contact: pgevans@wisc.edu, (608) 265-6773

Research interests: X-ray diffraction, microscopy, and optics, x-ray probes for ultrafast dynamics, micro-and-nanoscale properties of magnetic materials, magnetism, domains and switching in ferroelectric materials, single-monolaye...

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Dawei Feng

Y. Austin Chang Assistant Professor

Contact: dfeng23@wisc.edu

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Padma Gopalan

Professor

Contact: pgopalan@wisc.edu, (608) 265-4258

Also: Biomedical Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering

Research interests: Polymer Synthesis and Characterization, Electro-optic and Photonic Materials, Self-assembly of Block Copolymers, Photonic Devices, Liquid Crystalline Polymers

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Other affiliations: Chemistry

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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Jiamian Hu

Assistant Professor, Grainger Institute for Engineering Fellow

Contact: jhu238@wisc.edu, (608) 262-6009

Other affiliations: Grainger Institute for Engineering

Jason Kawasaki

Associate Professor

Contact: jkawasaki@wisc.edu, (608) 262-3233

Also: Physics

Research interests:

Heteroepitaxy of novel materials, Heusler compounds, magnetism, topological states, shape memory alloys, surfaces and interfaces, MBE, STM, ARPES

Other affiliations: Wisconsin Energy Institute

Sindo Kou

Professor

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

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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Sebastian Kube

Assistant Professor

Contact: sebastian.kube@wisc.edu

Also: Mechanical Engineering

Research interests: Autonomous materials discovery, Refractory alloys for extreme environments, Glass forming ability and structure of metallic liquids, Rapid solidification processing, Lab automation for high-throughput experimen...

Fang Liu

Assistant Professor

Contact: fang.liu3@wisc.edu, (608) 265-6141

Research interests: Materials and devices for energy storage and conversion, batteries, solid electrolytes, high-throughput experimentation, advanced material characterizations, CO₂ capture and utilization, sustainabili...

Dane Morgan

Harvey D. Spangler Professor of Engineering

Contact: ddmorgan@wisc.edu, (608) 265-5879

Also: College of Engineering, Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics

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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Hyunseok Oh

Assistant Professor

Contact: hyunseok.oh@wisc.edu, (608) 262-5211

Research interests: Alloy design, Complex-concentrated alloy, Steel, Aluminum, Thermomechanical processing, In-situ scanning electron microscopy, Synchrotron, Cryogenic, High temperature, Irradiation, Hydrogen environment, High ra...

Other affiliations: College of Engineering

John Perepezko

Professor

Contact: perepezk@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 263-1678

Research interests: Phase transformations, Interface reactions / coating design, Metastable and amorphous phases, Kinetics, Nucleation, Metal powders and high temperature intermetallic alloys, Rapid solidification, Microgravity pr...

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Yuan Ping

Associate Professor

Contact: yping3@wisc.edu

Also: Physics

Research interests: We develop first-principles methods for excited states, spin dynamics, electronic transport in solid-state systems, quantum defects, and heterogenous interfaces for spintronics and quantum information science a...

Other affiliations: Chemistry

Daniel Rhodes

Assistant Professor

Contact: darhodes@wisc.edu

Also: Physics

Research interests: Single Crystal Synthesis, Superconductivity, 2-D Materials, Topological Materials (Dirac, Weyl, HOTI), Defect Kinetics

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Ian Robertson

Professor and Dean of the College of Engineering

Contact: ian.robertson@wisc.edu

Also: Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics

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Kumar Sridharan

Grainger Professor,
Departments of Engineering Physics and Materials Science & Engineering; Fellow of: American Society for Materials; Institute of Materials (UK); American Nuclear Society

Contact: kumar.sridharan@wisc.edu, (608) 263-4789

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

Donald Stone

Professor and Associate Chair of Graduate Studies

Contact: dsstone@wisc.edu

Research interests: Metals and alloys, ceramics, polymers, composites, amorphous alloys, biological materials, thin films, microscopic specimens, kinetics, thermodynamics, mechanical properties: creep, plasticity, fracture, scale ...

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Other affiliations: Engineering Mechanics

Dan J Thoma

Professor

Contact: dthoma@wisc.edu, (608) 262-3751

Also: Mechanical Engineering, Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics

Research interests: Autonomous materials Research, Metal additive manufacturing, Alloy design and development, Advanced materials for energy applications, Phase transformations for functional materials, Thermal analysis and dilato...

Paul Voyles

Harvey D. Spangler Professor

Contact: paul.voyles@wisc.edu, (608) 265-6740

Research interests: Electron microscopy, including aberration-corrected Z-contrast STEM, microanalysis by EDS and EELS, and coherent electron nanodiffraction, growth, structure, and defects in functional materials, including spint...

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Xudong Wang

Professor and Associate Chair of Named MS Studies

Contact: xudong@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 890-2667

Research interests: Oxide nanomaterials growth and characterization, Piezoelectric nanostructures and nanodevices for mechanical energy harvesting, Semiconductor nanomaterials and devices for solar energy harvesting and energy sto...

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Jun Xiao

Assistant Professor

Contact: jun.xiao@wisc.edu, (608) 890-2462

Also: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research interests:

Photo-induced nonequilibrium phenomena, ferroelectric, magnetic, correlated and topological transitions in quantum materials

THz optoelectronic materials and devices fo...

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Other affiliations: Physics

Adjunct

Joseph Jakes

Adjunct Professor

Contact: jejakes@wisc.edu

Samuel L Zelinka

Adjunct Faculty

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

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

Affiliates

Uwe Bergmann

Professor

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

Dan Botez

Philip Dunham Reed Professor

Contact: botez@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 213-5483

Research interests: High-power, spatially coherent semiconductor lasers, Photonic Crystal semiconductor lasers for high coherent-power generation, Quantum Cascade lasers

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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

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

Curt Bronkhorst

Professor

Contact: cbronkhorst@wisc.edu, (608) 890-2586

Also: Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics

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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Weibo Cai

Associate Professor

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

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

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Other affiliations: Radiology

Rose Cersonsky

Assistant Professor

Contact: rose.cersonsky@wisc.edu

Research interests:

Molecular modeling and simulation

Applied mathematics and machine learning

Self-assembly and interactions of complex building blocks

Colloids, soft matter, and nanomaterials

Lianyi Chen

Charles Ringrose Associate Professor

Contact: lianyi.chen@wisc.edu, (608) 890-0664

Research interests: Additive manufacturing, metals design based on nanoelements, in-situ characterization, autonomous metals design and manufacturing, advanced materials and manufacturing techologies for fusion energy

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Jennifer Choy

Assistant Professor

Contact: jennifer.choy@wisc.edu, (608) 263-6974

Also: Physics, Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics

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

Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies, Associate Professor

Contact: couet@wisc.edu, (608) 265-7955

Research interests: Nuclear Materials, Irradiation Damage, Corrosion of Metals and Alloys, Oxidation Model, Electrochemistry, Synchrotron Radiation, Defect Transport in Oxides

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Wendy Crone

Karen Thompson Medhi Professor

Contact: crone@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-8384

Also: Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering

Research interests: Experimental mechanics of materials, characterization hydrogels and biomaterials, therapeutic medical devices, stem cell mechanics

Melih Eriten

Associate Professor

Contact: eriten@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 890-4899

Research interests: Multiscale materials modeling (friction, energy dissipation, and failure in multiscale structures and systems; continuum and atomistic modeling of interfaces; dislocations; plasticity; delamination), Multiscale...

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Pupa Gilbert

Professor

Contact: pupa@physics.wisc.edu

Other affiliations: Physics

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

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

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.

Chirag Gupta

Assistant Professor

Contact: cgupta9@wisc.edu

Research interests:

Semiconductor devices (WBG and UWBG), Group III-nitrides (GaN) and Oxides (GaOx), RF and Power Electronics: HEMTs and MOSFETs, Optoelectronics (LEDs, LASERs), Lattice E...

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

Robert Jacobberger

Assistant Professor

Contact: jacobberger@wisc.edu, (608) 265-4496

Research interests: Electronic, photonic, and quantum materials

Hongrui Jiang

Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, Lynn H. Matthias Professor in Engineering

Contact: hongruijiang@wisc.edu, (608) 265-9418

Also: Biomedical Engineering

Research interests: MicroElectroMechanical System, Microsensors and microactuators, BioMEMS and micro-optics, Microfluidics, Lab on chips, Biomimetics and bioinspiration

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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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Mikhail Kats

Jack St. Clair Kilby Associate Professor and Antoine-Bascom Associate Professor

Contact: mkats@wisc.edu, (608) 890-3984

Also: Physics

Research interests: Optics and photonics; plasmonics; optoelectronics; light harvesting; device physics; nanoscale science. For detailed information please see my Extended Homepage (ht...

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Irena Knezevic

Patricia and Michael Splinter Professor and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor

Contact: irena.knezevic@wisc.edu, (608) 890-3383

Also: Physics

Research interests: Quantum and semiclassical electronic transport in semiconductor nanostructures, Heat transport at the nanoscale. Nanostructured thermoelectrics, Decoherence and relaxation in nanostructures; transient and high-...

Other affiliations: Physics

Ying Li

Associate Professor

Contact: yli2562@wisc.edu, (608) 265-0577

Research interests: Mechanics of Materials, Polymer Physics, Soft Matter, Computational Mechanics, Computational Materials Science, Multiscale Modeling, Molecular Dynamics, Biomedical Systems, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Artifi...

David Lynn

Duane H. and Dorothy M. Bluemke Professor and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor

Contact: david.lynn@wisc.edu, (608) 262-1086

Research interests:

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Other affiliations: Chemistry

Zhenqiang Ma

Lynn H. Matthias Professor in Engineering & Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor

Contact: mazq@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 261-1095

Also: College of Engineering, Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics

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

Luke Mawst

Grainger STAR Professor in Engineering

Contact: ljmawst@wisc.edu, (608) 263-1705

Research interests: Semiconductor lasers, metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) growth of semiconductors, III/V compound semiconductor materials and devices

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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

William L. Murphy

Harvey D. Spangler Professor & H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellow

Contact: wlmurphy@wisc.edu, (608) 265-9978

Research interests: Creation of new biomaterials using bioinspired approaches, Using biomaterials to define the stem cell microenvironment, Development of biomaterials for tissue regeneration (tissue engineering), New approaches f...

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Dan Negrut

Bernard A. and Frances M. Weideman Professor

Contact: negrut@wisc.edu, (608) 772-0914

Also: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Sciences

Research interests:

Computer modeling and simulation of robots and autonomous vehicles, high performance computing, fluid-solid interaction

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Tim Osswald

Kuo K. and Cindy F. Wang Professor

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

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

Sean P. Palecek

Milton J. and A. Maude Shoemaker Professor

Contact: sppalecek@wisc.edu, (608) 262-8931

Also: Biomedical Engineering

Research interests: Cellular engineering, tissue engineering, stem cells, cell and protein biosensors

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Shubhra S Pasayat

Assistant Professor

Contact: shubhra@ece.wisc.edu, (608) 262-3781

Research interests: MOCVD growth of Group III-nitrides and Oxides, Optoelectronics: Micro-LEDs, LASERs, RF and Power Electronics: HEMTs and MOSFETs, Bio-Photonics, Lattice Engineering , Quantum Materials, Porous and flexible ...

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Frank Pfefferkorn

Professor
and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies

Contact: frank.pfefferkorn@wisc.edu, (608) 263-2668

Also: Interdisciplinary Professional Programs, Manufacturing Systems Engineering

Research interests: Laser remelting-based polishing and structuring of metal alloys, Friction stir welding and processing, Friction surfacing / additive friction stir, Temperature measurement and control in manufacturing, Instrume...

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James Pikul

Leon and Elizabeth Janssen Associate Professor

Contact: jpikul@wisc.edu, (608) 265-0613

Pavana Prabhakar

Charles G. Salmon Associate Professor

Contact: pavana.prabhakar@wisc.edu

Also: Mechanical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics

Research interests: Damage and failure mechanics of architected composite materials; Advanced manufacturing of composite materials - additive manufacturing and composite fabrication; Design of durable and damage tolerant comp...

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Mark Rzchowski

Associate Professor

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

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Other affiliations: Physics

Darryl G. Thelen

John Bollinger Chair of Mechanical Engineering
& Bernard A. and Frances M. Weideman Professor

Contact: dgthelen@wisc.edu, (608) 262-1902

Also: College of Engineering, Biomedical Engineering

Research interests: Dynamics and control of human movement, Wearable sensors in biomechanics, Neuromuscular adaptation with age, injury and disease, Imaging of soft tissue mechanics, Application of biomechanics in orthopedics, reh...

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Other affiliations: Orthopedics and Rehabilitation

Ramathasan Thevamaran

Assistant Professor

Contact: thevamaran@wisc.edu, (608) 262-5724

Also: Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics

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Lih-Sheng Turng

Consolidated Papers Foundation Professor sponsored by the Mead Witter Foundation

Contact: turng@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-0586

Also: Biomedical Engineering

Research interests: Injection molding and innovative plastics manufacturing processes, bio-based polymers and tissue engineering scaffolds, microcellular injection molding (MuCell process), nanocomposites and electro-active polyme...

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Bu Wang

Assistant Professor

Contact: bu.wang@wisc.edu, (608) 262-8698

Research interests: Bu leads the Sustainable Materials Innovation Lab in the CEE department (SMIL-CEE). The lab's mission is to develop innovative and interdisciplinary technological solutions to address the urgent need for s...

Ying Wang

Assistant Professor

Contact: y.wang@wisc.edu

Also: College of Engineering

Research interests: 2D/quantum material physics and their device applications including advanced optoelectronics and information storage. And the exploration on quantum behaviors in such material systems can potentiall...

Other affiliations: Physics

Justin Williams

Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor

Contact: jwilliams@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 265-3952

Research interests: Neural Engineering, BioMEMS, Microfluidics, Bio-fluidic interactions, Neural Rehabilitation, Neural Prostheses, Courses: Click to see my courses

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

Filiz Yesilkoy

Assistant Professor

Contact: filiz.yesilkoy@wisc.edu, (608) 262-5112

Also: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research interests: Biosensors, Nanophotonics, Nanobiotechnology, Bioimaging and microscopy techniques, Spectroscopy, Biomedical devices and instrumentation, Micro-Nano Fabrication, Microfluidics and Lab-on-a-chip devices

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Other affiliations: Chemistry

Yongfeng Zhang

Assistant Professor

Contact: yzhang2446@wisc.edu, (608) 890-3779

Research interests: Multiscale modeling and simulation:Nuclear fuels and materials , Defect thermodynamics and kinetics , Irradiation effect , Mechanical degradation , Cossion and stress corrosion cracking ...

Emeritus Faculty

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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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

Roderic Lakes

Wisconsin Distinguished Professor

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

Also: Biomedical Engineering, Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics

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

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

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