The MSE IDGP brings together faculty from Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, and Physics. We work in a wide range of fields such as Advanced Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Biomaterials, Catalysis, Energy Conversion and Storage, Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, Nanoelectronics, Nanotechnology, Quantum Computing, and Soft Matter, among others.
| Faculty | Department | Research Areas |
|---|---|---|
| Trisha Andrew | Chemistry | Wearable electronics |
| Amir Arbabi | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Nanophotonics, flat optics, silicon photonics, optoelectronics, III-V photonic devices and circuits, MEMS enabled tunable and reconfigurable photonics, planar terahertz components, applied electromagnetics |
| Sanjay Arwade | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Structural Engineering and Mechanics |
| Prabhani Atukorale | Biomedical Engineering | Immunoengineering; Immunotherapeutics; Novel nanomaterials; Tumor immunology; Tumor microenvironment; Synthetic tumor niches |
| Scott Auerbach | Chemistry | Theoretical Computational and Physical Chemistry, Nanomaterials, Chemical Energy, Catalysis, Zeolites |
| Peng Bai | Chemical Engineering | Molecular Modeling, Computational Catalysis, Machine Learning, Materials Genome, Separations, Plastic Upcycling, Batteries, Porous Materials |
| Michael Barnes | Chemistry | Single molecule spectroscopy, Photophysics of Nanostructured Semiconductors |
| Peter Beltramo | Chemical Engineering | Soft Matter, Biomimetic Materials, Colloidal and Interfacial Phenomena, Biophysics, Interfacial Rheology and Transport |
| Wen Chen | Mechanical & Industrial Engineering | Advanced manufacturing, Mechanical behavior of materials, alloy design, 3D printing |
| Zhu Chen | Chemical Engineering | Electrochemistry and Catalysis: Electrochemical CO2 conversion, low-temperature water electrolysis, electrochemical biomass upgrade |
| Chase Cornelison | Biomedical Engineering | Soft biomaterials, Neural Tissue Engineering, Intersitial fluid Flow, Tumor microenvironment |
| Don DeGroot | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Geotechnical Engineering |
| Christos Dimitrakopoulos | Chemical Engineering | Semiconductors and Electronic Materials |
| Anthony Dinsmore | Physics | Soft Matter, membranes and interfaces (experimental) |
| Seth Donahue | Biomedical Engineering | Bioinspired Material Design, Bone Tissue Engineering, Comparative Biomechanics, Hibernation Physiology, Paleo-engineering and Biomechanics |
| Xian Du | Mechanical & Industrial Engineering | Fexible electronics printing processes, imaging tools for medical devices, non-invasive detection and description of biomarkers |
| Joseph DuChene | Chemistry | Design and Synthesis of Catalytic Nanomaterials for Solar-to-Fuel Energy Conversion |
| Wei Fan | Chemical Engineering | Rational synthesis of nanoporous materials for the catalysts of biorefinery and drug delivery carriers |
| Jingjing Gao | Biomedical Engineering | Gene therapy for neurological disorders, biologics-to-brain delivery, nanomedicine, smart materials |
| Simos Gerasimidis | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Architected metamaterials, Truss- and plate-lattice metamaterials, Auxetics, Composites, Structural Stability, Thin Shell Buckling Infrastructure Resilience, Energy Structures, Wind turbines, Structural Engineering and Mechanics |
| Lori Goldner | Physics | Single Molecule Biophysics |
| Steve Granick | Polymer Science & Engineering | Soft matter, Living matter, Polymers, Biomaterials |
| Friederike Jentoft | Chemical Engineering | Catalysis and surface chemistry: Catalyst synthesis, in situ/operando spectroscopy, thermal analysis and calorimetry |
| Manasa Kandula | Physics | Experimental Soft Condensed Matter |
| Cathal Kearney | Biomedical Engineering | Biomaterials, Drug Delivery, Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering, On-Demand Delivery of Therapeutics, Circadian Rhythms |
| Dmitry Kireev | Biomedical Engineering | Bioelectronics, 2D materials, graphene, wearables, nanoelectronics, neuroengineering, biosensors, biohybrids, neuromorphic computing, e-tattoos, devices |
| Ashish Kulkarni | Chemical Engineering | Immunoengineering, Nano-immunotheraputics, Immunotheranostics, Bio-inspired Materials, Drug Delivery |
| Jungwoo Lee | Chemical Engineering | Translational Biomaterials, Bone Marrow Tissue Engineering, Microenvironment Aging and Cancer, Biomedical Imaging |
| Jae-Hwang Lee | Mechanical & Industrial Engineering | Nanomaterials under extreme conditions, Mechanical metamaterials, Phononic crystals, Polymer-based smart materials. |
| Zhou Lin | Chemistry | Quantum Mechanical Modeling of Energy, Materials, and Clusters; Fragment-Based Theory for Complex and Exotic Systems |
| Tingyi "Leo" Liu | Mechanical & Industrial Engineering | Bio-inspired soft robotics; Soft electronics; Medical devices; Advanced Design and Manufacturing, Biomedical and Healthcare Engineering |
| Dimitrios Maroudas | Chemical Engineering | Multi-scale Modeling of Complex Systems, Computational Materials Science, Electronic Materials and Nanostructures, Graphene-based Materials, Plasma-Facing Materials, Materials for Renewable Energy Technologies |
| Varghese Mathai | Physics | Soft materials fluid interactions, multiphase flows |
| Sean McBeath | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Applied electrochemistry; water and wastewater treatment; environmental and water contaminants sensors; advanced electro-oxidation processes; advanced electro-reduction processes |
| Narayanan Menon | Physics | Experimental Soft Condensed Matter and Nonequilibrium Physics: granular materials, active matter, pattern formation in flexible materials |
| Ricardo Metz | Chemistry | Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Gas-Phase Ions, Chemical Energy, Catalysis, Nanoclusters |
| Stephen Nonnnenmann | Mechanical & Industrial Engineering | Scanning Probe Microscopy; Nanomaterials; Surfaces/Interfaces; Energy |
| Jinglei Ping | Mechanical & Industrial Engineering | Development of biosensing devices and systems based on two-dimensional (2D) materials and translation of 2D materials into applications in point-of-care diagnostics, drug testing, and healthcare. |
| Eric Polizzi | Electrical & Computer Engineering | First-Principles Calculations; Scientific Computing; Computational activities in Nanoelectronics, Material Nanosciences and Spectroscopy; Numerical Linear Algebra; Parallel Algorithms and HPC; Software development |
| Nikolay Prokofiev | Physics | Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics: Mechanisms of superconductivity, strongly correlated Fermi systems, polarons, critical phenomena, Monte Carlo methods for path integrals and quantum field theory |
| Ashwin Ramasubramaniam | Mechanical & Industrial Engineering | Computational Materials Science, Mechanical and Optoelectronic properties of 2D Materials, Computational catalysis |
| Vincent Rotello | Chemistry | Biomedical and Materials Applications of Nanosystems |
| Jonathan Rothstein | Mechanical & Industrial Engineering | Dynamics of complex fluids; Non-Newtonian fluid dynamics; non-isothermal flow; hydrodynamics stability; optical measurement techniques; microfluidics; laminar and turbulent drag reduction; rheology and polymer processing |
| Jessica Schiffman | Chemical Engineering | Engineered-materials that improve human health, Green chemistry and renewable polymers, Synthesis and characterization of polymer-based materials, Microbiology and microbial assays |
| Yubing Sun | Mechanical & Industrial Engineering | Mechanobiology, stem cell engineering, cell-biomaterials interfaces, microfabrication |
| S. Thai Thayumanavan | Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering | Polymer self-assembly, responsive materials and their use in diverse applications including therapeutic delivery, sensing, and diagnostics |
| Shubha Tewari | Physics | Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, Soft Matter Physics, Simulations of granular materials under external forcing |
| Mark Tuominen | Physics | Nanoscale and Quantum Electronics |
| Dhandapani Venkataraman | Chemistry | Organic Materials Chemistry, Energy and Equity, Charge and ion transport in semiconductors, Solar Photovoltaics (Perovskite PVs and Organic PVs), Organic Thermoelectrics, Nanomaterials |
| James Walsh | Chemistry | High-Pressure Techniques, Solid-State Synthesis, X-ray Crystallography, Density Functional Theory, Dynamic Compression, Quantum Materials |
| Chen Wang | Physics | Condensed matter experiment, with a focus on superconducting quantum circuits |
| Nianqiang Wu | Chemical Engineering | Biosensors, bio-imaging, drug delivery, energy conversion and storage materials, electro- and photocatalysts, batteries |
| Guangyu Xu | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Nano/Micro-fabrication, VLSI design, Bioelectronics, Cell imaging, Lab-on-a-chip, Microfluidics. |
| Yanfei Xu | Mechanical & Industrial Engineering | Engineering polymer-based materials to improve thermal, electrical and optical properties; translating polymers into integrated devices and systems by leveraging advanced manufacturing. |
| Jun Yan | Physics | Condensed Matter Experiment, 2D materials, optoelectronics |
| Jun Yao | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Nanoelectronic devices and sensors, Bioelectronic interfaces and wearable devices , 'Green' electronics made from biomaterials |
| Mingxu You | Chemistry | DNA/RNA Nanotechnology, Bioimaging, Biosensing, Synthetic Biology |
| Guoping Zhang | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Superhydrophobic materials for civil engineering; micro/nano mechanics of geomaterials; water harvesting based on superhydrophobic/hydrophilic materials; carbon mineralization in geomaterials |
| Shuang Zhou | Physics | Soft condensed matter experiment, with a focus on liquid crystals and active matters |