Core Faculty    Affiliated Faculty    Emeritus Faculty in Service    Research Faculty

Core Faculty

	Scott Barnett Professor of Materials Science and Engineering	Deposition, structure, and properties of thin-film ceramic and semiconductor materials; solid oxide fuel cells
	Michael Bedzyk Department Chair Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and (by courtesy) Physics and Astronomy; Co-director, Northwestern Synchrotron Research Center	X-ray scattering; spectroscopy of interface structures
	Stephen Carr Professor of Materials Science and Engineering; Associate Dean of Undergraduate Engineering	Novel polymer solids; materials selection
	Robert Chang Professor of Materials Science and Engineering; Director, Materials Research Institute	Nanoscale materials design; synthesis; and device fabrication
	Yip-Wah Chung Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Mechanical Engineering; Director, NSF Summer Institute on Nanomechanics, Nanomaterials and Micro/Nanomanufacturing	Surface science, tribology, design and characterization of coatings and alloys
	Vinayak P. Dravid Professor of Materials Science and Engineering; Director, Northwestern University Atomic and Nanoscale Characterization (NUANCE) Center; Coordinator, Global McCormick	Understanding and manipulating complex atomic and nanoscale structures and phenomena
	David Dunand James N. and Margie M. Krebs Professor of Materials Science and Engineering; Co-director, Initiative for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern (ISEN)	Processing, structure and properties of metallic alloys, composites and foams
	Katherine Faber Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering	Multifunctional ceramics, ceramic composites, and coatings
	Mark C. Hersam Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and (by courtesy) Chemistry	Nanoelectronics; nanophotonics; sensors; alternative energy; catalysis; semiconductors; carbon nanotubes; graphene; organic and biological functionalization; nanolithography; scanning probe microscopy
	Jiaxing Huang Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering	Synthesis, assembly and properties of metal nanoparticles, organic nanowires and graphene-based materials
	Derk Joester Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering	Bio-mineralization; (reverse) engineering biological composite materials synthesis
	Lincoln J. Lauhon Associate Department Chair Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering	Synthesis of multi-functional nanomaterials for electronic, photonic, and energy applications; atomic-scale 3-D visualization of nanostructures; development of new scanning probe imaging modalities.
	Erik Luijten Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics	Computational statistical mechanics of complex fluids; electrostatically driven self-assembly phenomena; phase behavior and kinetics of colloidal suspensions and polymeric systems; Monte Carlo algorithms
	Laurence Marks Professor of Materials Science and Engineering	Nanoparticles, nanotribology, surface science, transmission electron microscopy and crystallography
	Thomas Mason Professor of Materials Science and Engineering	Electroceramics, ceramics for energy-conversion, nanoceramics
	Chad Mirkin George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry, Medicine, Materials Science and Engineering and (by courtesy) Chemical and Biological Engineering and Biomedical Engineering; Director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology	Developing methods for controlling the architecture of molecules and materials on the nano scale and utilizing such structures in the development of analytical tools
	Gregory B. Olson Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering	Dynamic multilevel structure; systems design of materials
	Monica Olvera de la Cruz Lawyer Taylor Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and (by courtesy) Chemical and Biological Engineering and Chemistry; Director, Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC)	Statistical mechanics; soft-matter theory and modeling; phase  transformations; molecular electrolytes; polymers
	Amanda Petford-Long Senior Scientist, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Lab; Director, Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Lab; Professor of Materials Science and Engineering	Understanding the behavior of magnetic, ferroelectric and multiferroic oxide nanostructures, and in particular determining the role that interfaces play in controlling this behavior
	David Seidman Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Founding Director, Northwestern University Center for Atom-Probe Tomography (NUCAPT)	High-temperature structural metallic alloys; phase transformations in metallic alloys; atomic-scale interfacial phenomena in metals and semiconductors; silicidation reactions; three-dimensional atom-probe tomography and field-ion microscopy
	Ramille N. Shah Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine	Processing and characterization of novel biomaterials for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine
	Kenneth Shull Professor of Materials Science and Engineering	Polymer surfaces and interfaces; micromechanics of soft materials
	Kathleen A. Stair Assistant Department Chair; Senior Lecturer in Materials Science and Engineering	Engineering education, laboratory exercises in materials science, technical writing
	Samuel Stupp Board of Trustees Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry, and Medicine; Director, Institute for BioNanotechnology in Medicine (IBNAM)	Biomaterials; nanoscience, synthesis & devices; materials properties and characterization
	John M. Torkelson Walter P. Murphy Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering	Dynamics; films; polymerization; phase behavior of polymers
	Peter W. Voorhees Frank C. Engelhart Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and (by courtesy) Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics	Thermodynamics and kinetics of phase transformations; solid oxide fuel cells, nanowire growth processes, measurement and analysis of materials microstructure in three-dimensions, and phase-field models for interfacial evolution
	Bruce Wessels W.P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and (by courtesy) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Electronic, magnetic and photonic materials and devices; nanoarchitecture
	Chris Wolverton Professor of Materials Science and Engineering	Atomic-scale computational materials science, materials for alternative energies and sustainability, such as materials for hydrogen storage, hydrogen generation, thermoelectrics, Li battery electrodes, nuclear materials, catalysis, and light-weight structural metals

Affiliated Faculty

	Zdeněk P. Bažant McCormick Institute Professor and Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering	Mechanics of materials and structures; especially fracture mechanics, scaling, creep, hygrothermal effects, poromechanics, probabilistic mechanics; applications to concrete, composites, ceramics, rocks, soils, ice.
	L. Catherine Brinson Chair of Mechanical Engineering; Jerome B. Cohen Professor of Mechanical Engineering	Multiscale mechanics of advanced materials, including shape memory alloys, polymer nanocomposites and biomaterials;synthesis, characterization and modeling
	Wesley R. Burghardt Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering	Polymer science; rheology; non-Newtonian fluid mechanics
	Arthur J. Freeman Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Physics and Astronomy	Theoretical/ computational condensed matter physics and materials science
	Joshua J. Jacobs William A. Hark, MD/Susanne G. Swift Professor and Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Rush University Medical Center	Biocompatibility of permanent orthopaedic implants, particularly joint replacement devices
	Tobin J. Marks Vladimir N. Ipatieff Professor of Catalytic Chemistry	Hard and soft electronic and photonic materials
	Philip B. Messersmith Professor of Biomedical Engineering	Biomimetic/bioinspired materials; bio-interfaces and antifouling polymers; nanoscience/nanotechnology
	Teri Odom Associate Professor of Chemistry and Dow Chemical Company Research Professor	Nanoscale patterning combined with chemical synthesis; plasmonic materials and their optical properties
	Mark A. Ratner Dumas University Professor of Chemistry & interim Chair Chemistry; Co-Director, Initiative for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern (ISEN)	Modeling of energy capture and storage systems; electron transfer and molecular electronics; dynamics of polymer electrolyte transport; self-consistent field models for coupled vibration reaction dynamics; meanfield models for extended systems; photonics in nanoscale systems; energetics of DNA/protein binding

Emeritus Faculty in Service

	Buckley Crist Professor Emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering	Polymer solids and blends
	Morris Fine Walter P. Murphy and Technological Institute Professor Emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering	Alloy design and development; alloys strengthened by nano-precipitates
	Johannes Weertman Walter P. Murphy Professor Emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering	Dislocation theory; mechanical properties of metals
	Julia Weertman Walter P. Murphy Professor Emerita of Materials Science and Engineering	Mechanical behavior and characterization of advanced materials, especially nanostructured metals

Research Faculty

Gautam Ghosh
Michael Graham
Dieter Isheim
Denis Keane
Zhifu Liu
Gordana Ostojic
Gajendra Shekhawat
Semyon Vaynman
Johannes Zwanikken