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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 Materials 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 Director, Materials Processing Center 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 Ford 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 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. Darrell J. Irvine, Ph.D. Eugene Bell Career Development Associate Professor of Tissue Engineering Design and development of polymeric biomaterials Nicola Marzari, Ph.D. Associate Professor in Computational Materials Science 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 Polymer 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 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 Randolph E. Kirchain, Jr., Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Resource intensity of materials economies, materials technology decisionmaking Krystyn J. Van Vliet, Ph.D. Thomas Lord Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Study of mechanically coupled transitions in material behavior and structure through the creation of real-time images containing topographical, mechanical, chemical, and kinetic data at sub-nanometer resolution. Senior Lecturer David I. Paul, Ph.D. Magnetic materials Visitors Adam C. Powell IV, Ph.D. Computational modeling of structure formation in materials, from metals to polymers to biomaterials; thermomechanical structure-property relationships Stephanie Reich, Ph.D. Nanoscience and nanotechnology using optical spectroscopy and first-principles calculations. Carbon nanotubes and carbon-based materials. Professors Emeriti Robert Weierter Balluffi, Sc.D. Professor of Physical Metallurgy, Emeritus Merton Corson Flemings, Sc.D. Professor of Materials Processing Toyota Professor Emeritus Director, Lemelson - MIT Program Solidification, materials processing Harry Constantine Gatos, Ph.D. Professor of Molecular Engineering and Electronic Materials, Emeritus Ronald Michael Latanision, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering Corrosion science and engineering, applied surface chemistry, electrochemistry, materials processing Frederick Jerome McGarry, S.M. Professor Emeritus of Polymer Engineering and Civil Engineering; Director, Summer Session Mechanical behavior of polymers, fiber reinforced composites, fracture mechanics of plastics, structure-property relationships Robert Edward Ogilvie, Sc.D. Professor of Metallurgy, Emeritus Régis Marc Noel Pelloux, Sc.D. Professor of Materials Engineering, Emeritus Fracture mechanics, fatigue, fracture toughness, creep-fatigue interactions, failure analysis Robert Michael Rose, Sc.D. Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Director, Concourse Program Superconductivity, orthopaedic biomaterials, and microelectrochemistry Kenneth Calvin Russell, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Metallurgy and Nuclear Engineering Mechanical alloying, kinetics of phase transformations in alloys, composite materials, rapid solidification John Bruce Vander Sande, Ph.D. Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor Emeritus Physical metallurgy, microstructural analysis via electron microscopy, superconducting oxide synthesis and characterization