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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

UTNRL

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


   


Research Faculty

Frank Averill, Professor
Jianming Bai, Assistant Professor
Rozaliya I Barabash, Associate Professor
Paul Becher, Professor
Odis Burl Cavin, Assistant Professor
Xingqiu Chen, Assistant Professor
Wojciech Dmoski, Associate Professor
Neal Dow Evans III, Assistant Professor
Stanislav I Golubov, Assistant Professor
Erik Herbert, Assistant Professor
Andrew K. Kercher, Assistant Professor
Nagraj Sheshgiri Kulkarni, Assistant Professor
Konstantin Lokshin, Assistant Professor
Roberta Peascoe Meisner, Assistant Professor
Charles Melcher, Professor
David Michael Stewart, Assistant Professor
Hong Wang, Assistant Professor
Mariya Zhuravleva, Assistant Professor

 

Adjunct Faculty

Hongbin Bei, Assistant Professor
Theodore M. Besmann, Associate Professor
Everett Bloom, Professor
Craig Blue, Associate Professor
Lynn Boatner, Professor
Michael P. Brady, Associate Professor
Domenic A. Canonico, Professor
Claus Daniel, Assistant Professor
Lars Aldon Erikson, Professor
Zhili Feng, Professor
Joseph A. Horton, Jr., Professor
Cam Hubbard, Professor
Gene Ice, Professor
James, Klett, Assistant Professor
Ho Nyung Lee, Associate Professor
Hua-Tay Lin, Professor
Jimmy W. Mays, Professor
Govidarajan Muralidharan, Assistant Professor
Chaitanya Narula, Assistant Professor
Warren Oliver, Professor
Felix Paulauskas, Professor
Timothy R. Rials, Professor
Michael L. Santella, Professor
Piotr Szupryczynski, Assistant Professor
Terry N. Tiegs, Assistant Professor
Xun-Li Wang, Professor
Thomas R. Watkins, Assistant Professor
Richard Weber, Professor

 

Staff

Main Office

Carla Lawrence
Carla Lawrence

Administrative Specialist

Susan Seymour
Susan Seymour

Administrative Support Assistant

Business Office

Carolyn Nelson
Carolyn Nelson

Business Manager

David Stansberry
Tonya Brewer

Accounting Specialist

Facilities Group

Frank Holiway
Frank Holiway

Accounting Specialist

Randy Stooksbury
Randy Stooksbury

Administrative Support Assistant

Mechanical Systems Group

Doug Fielden
Doug Fielden

Technical Supervisor

Larry Smith
Larry Smith

Technical Specialist

Dan Hackworth
Danny Hackworth

Technical Specialist

Technical Support Group

Stephen Stiner
Stephen Stiner

Technical Supervisor

Greg Jones
Gregory Jones

Senior Technical Specialist

Carol Winn
Carol Winn
Senior Technical Specialist

 

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