Kurt E. Sickafus

Department Head,
Alvin and Sally Beaman Professor
Ph.D., Cornell University:
Grain Boundary Structural Transformations Induced by Solute Segregation

Associate Department Head, Professor
Ph.D., Florida State: Biopolymers, Polymer Degradation, Composites

Veerle M. Keppens

Associate Department Head, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium): Elastic Constants of Novel Materials, Lattice Dynamics, Tunneling States in Amorphous Materials

Kevin M. Kit

Associate Department Head, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Delaware: Polymer Blends, Agricultural Materials

Gajanan S. Bhat

Professor
Ph.D. Georgia Tech: Acrylic and Carbon Fibers, Recycled Plastics, Nonwoven materials

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Illinois Institute of Technology: Physical/Mechanical Behavior of Structural Materials, Neutron Scattering

Gerd Duscher

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Max-Planck Institute: Interface Science, Structure-Physical Property Relationship, Analytical Transmission Electron Microscopy, Ab Initio Density Functional Theory

Takeshi Egami

Professor,
UT/ORNL Distinguished Scientist
Ph.D., Pennsylvania: Materials Physics, Neutron and X-Ray Diffraction, Electronic Ceramics

Yanfei Gao

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Princeton University: Small Scale Mechanical Behavior, Defects and Friction, Nanoscale Thin Film Heterostructures, Computational Materials Science

Easo P. George

Professor
Ph.D., Pennsylvania: Mechanical Behavior, Physical Metallurgy, Intermetallics, In-Situ Composites

Wei He

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Connecticut: Synthesis and Patterning of Polymers for Biomedical Application

Bin Hu

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Chinese Academy of Sciences: Electronic and Optical Polymeric Materials and Devices

David C. Joy

Distinguished Professor
D.Phil., Oxford (UK): Electron Microscopy, Electron-Solid Interactions, Device Metrology

Ramki Kalyanaraman

Associate Professor
Ph.D., North Carolina State University, Raleigh:
Thin Films, Phase Transformation, Energetic Beam Processing and
Functional Nanocomposites

Professor
Racheff Chair of Excellence Ph.D., Northwestern: Mechanical Behavior, Composite Materials, Life Prediction and Extension

Carl D. Lundin

Professor
Ph.D., Rensselaer: Welding, Joining, Non-Equilibrium Metallurgy

David Mandrus

Professor
Ph.D., Stony Brook University: Growth, discovery, and materials physics of new electronic and magnetic materials. Oxide electronics.

Professor
Ph.D., Kentucky:Physical Metallurgy, Ion Implantation in Ceramics, Nanoscience/Technology

Thomas T. Meek

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Ohio State: Processing and Electronic Properties of Ceramics

Research Professor
Ph.D. Washington University, St. Louis.: Inorganic Scintillators and their Applications

James R. Morris

Associate Professor
Ph.D.: Cornell University:
Theoretical modeling and computational simulations of materials at small length scales

Professor
Ph.D., Stanford: Superplasticity, Intermetallic Compounds, Bulk Metallic Glasses

George M. Pharr

Chancellor's Professor
Ph.D., P.E., Stanford: Mechanical Behavior, Nanoindentation, Thin Films

Philip D. Rack

Professor
Leonard G. Penland Chair Ph.D., Florida: Electronic and Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, Thin Film Processing and Characterization

Claudia J. Rawn

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Arizona: Ceramic Processing, X-Ray Diffraction, Neutron Scattering

Michael L. Simpson

Professor
Ph.D., Tennessee: Electronic Materials, Nanostructured Materials, Nanofabrication, Biomaterials

Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Tennessee: Polymer Processing, Modeling, Structure Development, Fiber Science, Nonisothermal Crystallization, Structure/Property Relations

Larry C. Wadsworth

Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., North Carolina State: Nonwoven Materials, Process-Structure-Property Studies in Melt Blowing and Spunbonding and Composites Technologies

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Akron: Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, Polymer Chemistry, Physics, and Rheology

William J. Weber

Governor's Chair Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin: Radiation Effects, Ion-Beam Modification of Materials, Nuclear Materials, Defects Properties in Ceramics

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Lund Institute of Technology (LTH), Sweden: Ions and electrons interaction with solids, Radiation effects and radiation detector physics, Ion beam analysis

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