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Adjunct faculty

  Name & position Research areas
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Scott Dunham

  • MSE Adjunct Professor
  • Professor of Electrical Engineering

dunham@ee.washington.edu

Modeling of integrated circuit fabrication processes, computational materials, modeling of semiconductor device behavior, modeling of fabrication and operation of microstructures.
David Ginger

David Ginger

  • MSE Adjunct Professor
  • Physics Adjunct Professor
  • Professor in Chemistry
  • Chief Scientist, UW Clean Energy Institute
  • Founding Co-Director, NW IMPACT

dginger@uw.edu

  • Physical and Materials Chemistry
  • Nanotechnology
Xiaosong Li

Xiaosong Li

  • MSE Adjunct Professor
  • Harry and Catherine Jaynne Boand Endowed Professor of Chemistry

xsli@uw.edu

  • Theoretical Chemistry
  • Time-dependent electronic structure theory
  • Relativistic quantum mechanical techniques
  • Non-adiabatic dynamics of large-scale systems
Mohammad Malakooti

Mohammad Malakooti

  • MSE Adjunct Professor
  • Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

malakoot@uw.edu

  • Functional Nanostructures Multifunctional Composites
  • Integrated Materials
  • Wearable Electronics
Ramulu Mamidala

Ramulu Mamidala

  • MSE Adjunct Professor
  • Professor of Mechanical Engineering

ramulum@uw.edu

Mechanics of materials, fracture mechanics, fatigue, and advanced manufacturing processes. Focus on the fields of solid and fracture mechanics.
David Masiello

David Masiello

  • MSE Adjunct Professor
  • Bernard and Claudine Nist Endowed Scholar in Chemistry
  • Applied Mathematics Adjunct Professor

masiello@uw.edu

  • Theory of fast electron spectroscopy - electron energy loss/gain spectroscopy and cathodoluminescence
  • Plasmonics, phononics, metamaterials, and nanophotonics theory
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Buddy Ratner

ratner@uw.edu

The technological applications of biology at surfaces (biomaterials, biocompatibility, polymers, surface engineering, self-assembly, molecular recognition).
Marco Salviato

Marco Salviato

  • MSE Adjunct Professor
  • Assistant Professor of Aeronautics & Astronautics

salviato@aa.washington.edu

Holomorphic composites, computational mechanics, fracture mechanics, multiscale modeling, multifunctional materials
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Daniel Schwartz

  • MSE Adjunct Professor
  • Professor of Chemical Engineering

dts@uw.edu

Electrochemical Engineering, Microsystem Engineering, Advanced Materials Synthesis.
Gerald Seidler

Gerald Seidler

  • MSE Adjunct Professor
  • Professor of Physics

seidler@uw.edu

Condensed Matter Experiment
Junlan Wang

Junlan Wang

  • MSE Adjunct Professor
  • Professor of Mechanical Engineering

junlan@uw.edu

Experimental Mechanics, Thin Films & Multilayers, Energy Efficient Materials & Coatings, Biological, Bioinspired & Biomimetic Materials, Metal Additive Manufacturing, Nanomechanics & Nanotechnology

Affiliate faculty

  Name & position Research areas
Scott A. Chambers

Scott A. Chambers

sa.chambers@pnnl.gov

Epitaxial growth and properties of transition metals oxides, and oxide surface and interface geometric and electronic structure.
K. Bhagwan Das

K. Bhagwan Das

  • MSE Affiliate Professor
  • Retired, The Boeing Company (Seattle, Washington)

kbdas@u.washington.edu

Rapid solidification rate alloys, metal matrix composites, hydrogen embrittlement, stress–corrosion cracking.
James De Yoreo

James De Yoreo

  • MSE Affiliate Professor
  • Chief Scientist, Materials Synthesis & Simulation Across Scales, Pacific Northwest National Lab, Richland, Washington

James.DeYoreo@pnnl.gov

Macromolecular self-assembly, biomineralization, biomimetic materials synthesis, and in situ TEM and AFM.
Christine K. Luscombe

Christine K. Luscombe

  • MSE Affiliate Professor
  • Professor, pi-Conjugated Polymers Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
  • President, IUPAC Polymer Division

luscombe@uw.edu

Semiconducting polymers for organic electronics, polymerizations, photovoltaics, optoelectronics, self-healing, composite materials, materials chemistry, materials characterization.
Tomanaga Okabe

Tomanaga Okabe

  • MSE Affiliate Professor
  • Chair, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Tohoku University

okabe@plum.mech.tohoku.ac.jp

Prof. Okabe’s research is broadly focused on the microstructure and properties (physical and mechanical) of structural composite materials. His primary expertise is in the area of fiber reinforced plastics.

Chinmayee Subban

  • MSE Affiliate Professor
  • Scientist, Coastal Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Lab, Seattle, WA

cvsubban@uw.edu

Fundamental and applied research on desalination, water treatment, resource recovery, and renewable energy technologies.

Candan Tamerler

Candan Tamerler

  • MSE Affiliate Associate Professor
  • Wesley G. Cramer Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Kansas, Lawrence
Dr. Tamerler’s research interests are in molecular biomimetics, bio-nanotechnology, and bio-enabled materials science.
Shuai Zhang

Shuai Zhang

  • MSE Affiliate Assistant Professor
  • Physical Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

zhangs71@uw.edu

Bimolecular self-assembly, bio composites, scanning probe microscopy, colloidal crystallization, 2D van der Waals materials, MXene, and ML/AI statistical analysis.

Emeritus faculty

  Name & position Research areas
Brian Flinn

Brian Flinn

  • MSE Research Associate Professor Emeritus

bflinn@uw.edu

  • Mechanics of materials
  • Engineering education
  • Joining of materials
  • Structure, processing, and property relationships
  • Advanced materials
Alex Jen

Alex Jen

  • MSE Professor Emeritus
  • Chemistry Adjunct Professor 
  • Director, Institute of Advanced Materials & Technology

ajen@uw.edu

  • Organic Photonics
  • Self-assembly & Nanomaterials
  • Organic Electronics
  • Functional Block Co-polymers
  • Non-destructive Damage Detection
"Fumio Ohuchi"

Fumio Ohuchi

  • MSE Professor Emeritus
  • Physics Adjunct Professor

ohuchi@uw.edu

  • Composite Materials
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Materials Characterization
  • Materials Physics
Y.K. Rao

Y.K. Rao

  • MSE Professor Emeritus

ykrishnarao@aol.com

  • Coal Utilization
  • Metallurgical Smelters
  • Steady-State
  • High Temperature Systems
  • IECMQ
Thomas Stoebe

Thomas G. Stoebe

  • MSE Professor Emeritus

tstoebe@iCloud.com

  • Electronic materials
    Semiconductor device processing
    Optical sensors
    Radiation dosimetry

Lecturers

Charles Seaton

Charles Seaton 
Master of Science (Materials Science) and Ph.D. candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Courses taught: MSE 490 (spring quarter)
Contact: cseaton@uw.edu