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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
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Vipin Kumar

  • MSE Adjunct Professor
  • Professor of Mechanical Engineering

vkumar@uw.edu

Design and manufacturing, including product and process design, and characterization and processing of polymeric composites. Research focuses on microcellular composites.
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.
Hong Ma

Hong Ma

  • MSE Affiliate Professor
  • Accountant, AtWork!

Materials chemistry, self-assemby, additive processing, renewable enery, flexible electronics, bionanotechnolgy

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.
Marco Rolandi

Marco Rolandi

  • Affiliate Associate Professor
  • Electrical Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz

mrolandi@ucsc.edu

Bioelectronic and bioprotonic devices and translational applications; technological integration of biological and bioinspired materials; visual communication in science and engineering

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