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	Name, Title	Email	Research Topic
	Mark Aindow Professor Executive Director for Innovation, External Engagement, and Industry Relations		Defects and Interfaces, Microstructural Development in Alloys and Thin Films & Electron Microscopy
	S. Pamir Alpay Associate Dean for Research and Industrial Partnerships; GE Professor in Advanced Manufacturing; Executive Director, UConn IPB/Tech Park		Materials Modeling, Functional Materials, Metallurgy
	Harold D. Brody Distinguished Professor		Materials Processing, Alloy Casting and Solidification & Process Models
	Avinash M. Dongare Associate Professor United Technologies Corporation (UTC) Professor in Engineering Innovation		Atomic Scale Modeling, Mesoscale Modeling, Microstructural Evolution, Mechanics of Materials, Defects, Interfaces, Materials Under Extreme Environments
	Lesley D. Frame Assistant Professor		Metals Processing, Manufacturing, Corrosion, Residual Stress, Phase Transformations, Structure – Property – Processing Relationships
	Pu-Xian Gao Professor		Nanomaterials Synthesis, Characterization and Manipulation, Nanotechnology for Energy, Environmental and Biomedical Applications
	Rainer Hebert Associate Professor, Castleman Professor in Engineering Innovation, Director of Additive Manufacturing Innovation Center, and Associate Director of IMS		Phase Transformations, Metals & alloys, Metalic Glasses & Severe Plastic Deformation Processing
	Bryan D. Huey Department Head, Professor		Scanning Probe Microscopy, Photovoltaics, Data Storage Dynamics, Nano-Bio-Mechanics, Functional Ceramics
	Jasna Jankovic Assistant Professor		Advanced Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques, Nanomaterials for Clean Energy Applications, Fuel Cells, Batteries, Structure-Property-Performance Correlation
	Theo Z. Kattamis Professor		Solidification and Metals Joining, Materials Processing, Thin Coatings & Tribology
	Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D. University Professor and Van Dusen Distinguished Endowed Professor		Advanced Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering, Biodegradable Polymers, Nanotechnology
	Seok-Woo Lee Assistant Professor, Castleman Term Professor in Engineering Innovation		Mechanical Behavior of Materials at Multi-Length Scales, In-situ Cryogenic Nanomechanical Characterization, Computer Simulations of Dislocations, Single Crystal Growth, Laser-beam Lithography, Polymer Nanocomposites
	Fiona Leek Director Undergraduate Laboratories, Assistant Professor-in-Residence		Polymer Characterization and Failure Analysis
	Radenka Maric Vice President for Research, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, CT Clean Energy Fund Professor of Sustainable Energy		Novel Materials for High Temperature Fuel Cells
	Serge M. Nakhmanson Associate Professor and Director for Undergraduate Studies		Multiscale Modeling of Materials, Multifunctional Ferroics, Soft Materials
	Volkan Ortalan Associate Professor		Ultrafast Electron Microscopy, Aberration-corrected In-situ TEM, Heterogeneous Catalysts, Materials Under Extreme Conditions, Polymers, Low-dimensional Materials, Additive Manufacturing
	George A. Rossetti Jr. Associate Department Head, Associate Professor		Dielectric & Piezoelectric Ceramics, Ferroelectricity, Phenomenological Modeling, Electrical & Thermophysical Properties Characterization
	Stefan Schaffoener Assistant Professor		Ceramics and composites, Corrosion, High temperature materials processing
	Prabhakar Singh UTC Endowed Chair Professor		High Temperature Materials, Oxidation and Corrosion, Electrochemistry, Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
	Yuanyuan Zhu Assistant Professor		Advanced and In-situ STEM, Deep Learning, Heterogenous Catalysis, Irradiation Effects, Functional Nanomaterials

Faculty with Affiliate Appointments
	Yusuf Khan Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, UConn Health Center		Tissue Engineering, Biocompatible and Biodegradable Scaffolds
	Sangamesh Kumbar Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, UConn Health Center		Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering and Drug Delivery Applications
	Lakshmi Nair Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, UConn Health Center		Regenerative Engineering, Injectable Hydrogels, Nanostructured Materials, Drug Delivery
	Syam Nukavarapu Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering		Biomaterials, Engineered Matrices, Tissue Engineering

Additional Faculty in MSE Graduate Program
	Menka Jain Associate Professor, Department of Physics		Synthesis, Characterizations, and Understanding Structure-Property Relationships of Various Interesting Functional and Multifunctional Materials (i.e. Dielectric, Ferroelectric, Ferromagnetic, Multiferroic, Magnetoelectric, Thermoelectric)
	Liisa T. Kuhn Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering		Biomaterial Scaffolds for Drug Delivery and Bone Tissue Engineering
	Jeffrey McCutcheon Associate Professor		Membrane Separations, Polymer Electrospinning, Forward Osmosis/Osmotic Power
	Richard Parnas Professor		Biofuels Process Design, Biodegradable Polymers, Pervaporation Membranes, and Biomass Extraction
	Steven L. Suib Director of IMS, Board of Trustees Professor, Professor of Chemistry		Solid State Inorganic Chemistry, Zeolites and Microporous Materials, Environmental Chemistry, Plasma Chemistry and Catalysis, Semiconductors, Inorganic Photocatalysis, Batteries, Ceramics
	Brian Willis Associate Professor		Nanotechnology, Nanofabrication, Photocatalysis, Plasmonics

Teaching, Research & Adjunct Faculty
	Ryan M. Deacon Adjunct Professor		Alloy Development, High Temperature Corrosion, Materials Characterization with Electrons and X-rays
	Maurice Gell Research Professor		Advanced Coatings Technology Development for Enhanced Durability, Superior Thermal Barrier Coatings
	Daniel Goberman Adjunct Professor		High Temperature Environmental Barrier Coatings for Aerospace Applications
	Weiming Lu Adjunct Professor		Carbon Materials and their Applications
	Rajiv Naik Adjunct Professor		Composite Materials, Materials Design, Mechanical Properties
	Greg Ojard Adjunct Professor		Experimental Characterization of Mechanical Properties of Advanced Materials
	Rampi Ramprasad Research Professor		Rational Materials Design Using First Principles and Data-driven Methods
	Diane J. Van Scoter Associate Professor in Residence, MEM		Process Improvement and Development of STEM Teaching Methods and Materials
	Mei Wei Research Professor		Tissue Engineering, Scaffolds, Biomimetic Coatings, Ceramic-Polymer Composites, Nanomaterials, Drug Delivery

Emeritus Faculty
	C. Barry Carter Emeritus Professor		Interfaces & Defects; Metals, Ceramics, Materials and Semiconducters; Nanomaterials; TEM, SEM and AFM. Materials for Energy Products and Storage; MSE Education
	James M. Galligan Emeritus Professor
	Norbert D. Greene Emeritus Professor
	Eric Jordan United Technologies Professor of Advanced Materials Processing		Mechanical Behavior of Materials, High Temperature Materials, Thermal Barrier Coatings, Thermal Spray Processing and Properties, and Nano Crystalline Materials
	Harris L. Marcus Emeritus Professor		Freeform Fabrication, Mechanical Behavior, Fatigue, Nanotechnology & Photonic Crystals
	John E. Morral Emeritus Professor
	Donald Potter Emeritus Professor		Materials Characterization, AFM, SEM, TEM, XRD

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