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	DMSE Faculty Edwin Lorimer Thomas, Ph.D. Head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering Morris Cohen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Polymer physics and engineering, phase transformations and microstructure, electron microscopy and X-ray scattering Professors Samuel Miller Allen, Ph.D. POSCO Professor of Physical Metallurgy Phase transformations, solid-solid interfaces, mechanical behavior, electron microscopy Ronald Ballinger, Ph.D. Professor, Nuclear Engineering & Materials Science and Engineering Environmental effects on materials behavior, electrochemistry, corrosion, advanced materials for fusion systems Angela Belcher, Ph.D. Germehausen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Biological Engineering Biomaterials, biomolecular materials, and organic-inorganic interfaces processing; defects in electronic materials W. Craig Carter, Ph.D. Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, MacVicar Faculty Fellow Application of theoretical and computational materials science to microstructural evolution and the relations between material properties and microstructure Gerbrand Ceder, Ph.D. R.P. Simmons Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Computational Materials Science, Prediction of structure and properties, oxides Yet-Ming Chiang, Sc.D. Kyocera Professor of Ceramics Ceramic interfaces, defects and transport, microstructure development, reaction-based processing of ceramics Michael John Cima, Ph.D. Sumitomo Electric Industries Professor of Engineering Chemical and physical phenomena in ceramics processing Joel Phillip Clark, Sc.D. Professor of Materials Systems Materials supply and demand modelling, materials systems and analysis, materials policy, technology transfer Thomas W. Eagar, Sc.D. Professor of Materials Engineering and Engineering Systems Materials processing and manufacturing, welding and joining, deformation processing, alternate manufacturing processes, selection of material Eugene A. Fitzgerald, Ph.D. Merton C. Flemings-SMA Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Thin film electronic materials; lattice-mismatched semiconductor films; heteroepitaxial materials growth, characterization, and device processing; defects in electronic materials Lorna J. Gibson, Ph.D. Matoula S. Salapatas Professor of Materials Science and Engineering; Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Mechanical behavior of cellular materials, bone mechanics Linn Walker Hobbs, D.Phil. Professor of Materials, Professor of Nuclear Engineering Defect structures in ceramics, radiation effects in non-metals, glass structure, high-temperature corrosion, electron microscopy, image analysis, biomaterials Dorothy Hosler, Ph.D. Professor of Archaeology and Ancient Technology Prehistoric new world metallurgical and ceramic technologies Klavs Flemming Jensen, Ph.D. Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering Lammot du Pont Professor of Chemical Engineering and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Chemical and physical phenomena in processing of electronic materials; process modeling Lionel C. Kimerling, Ph.D. Thomas Lord Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Properties and processing of electronic materials; new optical and electronic phenomena, device and circuit applications, imperfection in solids Heather Nan Lechtman, M.A. Professor of Archaeology and Ancient Technology Director, Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology Archaeological metallurgy, ancient technologies Anne M. Mayes, Ph.D. Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, on leave MacVicar Faculty Fellow Theory, design, and characterization of polymer surfaces and interfaces, block copolymers, solid polymer electrolytes Caroline Anne Ross, Ph.D. Toyota Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Magnetic materials, especially for data storage applications in hard disks, patterned media, magnetic random access memories and magnetic logic; materials for magnetooptical applications; and templated self-assembly processes such as the formation of ordered structures in block copolymers for nanolithography applications Michael Francis Rubner, Ph.D. TDK Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Director, Center for Materials Science and Engineering MacVicar Faculty Fellow Electrical and optical properties of polymeric materials and ultra-thin polymer films; structure property relations of polymers Donald Robert Sadoway, Ph.D. John F. Elliott Professor of Materials Chemistry Chemical processing of materials, electrochemistry, molten salt chemistry, physical chemistry of cryogenic liquids, lithium solid polymer electrolyte batteries Subra Suresh, Sc.D. Dean of the School of Engineering Vannevar Bush Professor of Engineering Nanomechanics of engineering materials, thin films and biological membranes, experimental and computational studies of the mechanics of biological cells and human disease states, biochemical effects on mechanical response of human cancer cells and malaria-parasite-infected red blood cells Carl V. Thompson II, Ph.D. Stavros Salapatas Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Director, MIT Materials Processing Center Processing and properties of thin films and nanostructures for applications in electronic and electromechanical micro and nano devices and systems. Basic studies of structure evolution at the micro and nano scale Harry Louis Tuller, Eng.Sc.D. Professor of Ceramics and Electronic Materials Director, Crystal Physics and Optical Electronics Laboratory Electrical and optical properties of semi-conducting and insulating ceramics, nonstoichiometry, properties and applications of solid state electrolytes, silicon micromachining Bernhardt John Wuensch, Ph.D. Professor of Ceramics X-ray and neutron diffraction, fast ion conductors, point defects and diffusion in ceramics Sidney Yip, Ph.D. Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering Mechanical and thermal behavior of structural and functional materials Associate Professors Yoel Fink, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Materials Science, MacVicar Faculty Fellow Block copolymer self-assembled Photonic Band Gap Materials (theory and synthesis), dielectric omnidirectional reflectors (theory and synthesis), theory of photonic crystals, causes of halo formation in charged particles beams. Jeffrey C. Grossman, Ph.D. Carl Richard Soderberg Associate Professor of Power Engineering Computational materials science for energy conversion and storage, surface phenomena, nano-mechanical phenomena, and synthesis and assembly Darrell J. Irvine, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering & Biological Engineering Design and development of biomaterials for immunology and immunotherapy applications Randolph E. Kirchain, Jr., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Resource intensity of materials economies, materials technology decisionmaking Nicola Marzari, Ph.D. Toyota Associate Professor of Materials Engineering Quantum-mechanical simulations and modelling of the structural, electronic, and dynamical properties of complex materials Christine Ortiz, Ph.D Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Mechanics of Biological Tissues, Musculoskeletal (e.g. Cartilage, Bone, Intervertebral Disc) and Exoskeletal including natural flexible armor, transparent armor, armor for biochemical toxin resistance, kinetic attacks, thermal regulation, and blast dissipation (e.g. armored fish, deep sea hydrothermal vent and antarctic molluscs, and echinoderms). Solid/Continuum Mechanics, Micromechanics, Nanomechanics, Single Molecule Imaging, Single Cell Mechanics. David Kaye Roylance, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Materials Engineering Polymers and composites, physics of fracture Yang Shao-Horn, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering Materials for electrochemical energy conversion and storage (batteries and fuel cells), thermodynamics and kinetics of electrochemical reactions, application of transmission electron microscopy Francesco Stellacci, Ph.D. Paul M. Cook Career Development Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Nano-science and technology: structure-property relationships of ligand-coated nanoparticles and nanostructured materials. Fabrication and characterization of nano-devices for electronic, optical and sensing applications Christopher A. Schuh, Ph.D. Danae and Vasilios Salapatas Associate Professor of Metallurgy Microstructural design, with emphasis on the microstructure-property relationship in engineered materials Krystyn J. Van Vliet, Ph.D. Thomas Lord Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Experimental and computational analyses of material chemomechanics, the coupling between mechanical and chemical states, at complex material interfaces. Concentrated interest in how mechanical cues alter reaction kinetics at the cell-material interface from the molecular to tissue scales. Assistant Professors Alfredo Alexander-Katz , Ph.D. Toyota Career Development Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Geoffrey Beach, Ph.D. AMAX Career Development Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Michael J. Demkowicz , Ph.D. John C. Chipman Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Silvija Gradečak, Ph.D. Merton C. Flemings Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Nano-electronics and photonics; correlation of structural, optical, electronic and magnetic properties of semiconducting materials; inorganic nanowires, nanowire heterostructure and devices; III-V semiconductor epitaxial films and low-dimensional systems; development of advanced electron microscopy techniques Senior Lecturer David I. Paul, Ph.D. Magnetic materials