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Paul Alivisatos (Chemistry, Material Science and Engineering - UCB)
Preparation and properties of semiconductor nanocrystals. Synthesis of crystallites consisting of a few hundred to tens of thousands of atoms. Spectroscopy of the clusters, including: electro-optic effects, photoemission, resonance Raman scattering. Melting in clusters, low temperature thin-film growth.
alivis@berkeley.edu

David Attwood (Applied Science and Technology/EECS - UCB; Center for X-ray Optics - LBNL)
Partially coherent radiation at short wave-lengths, synchrotrons, undulators, x-ray lasers, processes in hot dense plasmas; x-ray optics, microscopes, and holography; application of element specific x-ray microscopy to studies in the life and physical sciences.
attwood@eecs.berkeley.edu

Stanley A. Berger (Mechanical Engineering - UCB)
Physiological fluid mechanics, particularly flow in the arterial circulation and microcirculation.
saberger@me.berkeley.edu

Peter J. Bickel (Statistics - UCB)
Computational biology, high dimensional complex data.
bickel@stat.berkeley.edu

Charles K. Birdsall (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Plasma Interdisciplinary Committee - UCB)
Plasmas; plasma theory and many-particle simulations; applications ranging from fusion plasmas to plasma assisted materials processing to plasma display panels to electric beam driven microwave tubes; current emphasis is on plasma-sheath surface dynamics.
birdsall@eecs.berkeley.edu

Jeffrey Bokor (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - UCB; Center for X-ray Optics - LBNL)
Nanostructure device physics and fabrication, x-ray optics and lithography.
jbokor@eecs.berkeley.edu

Carlos J. Bustamante (Physics, Molecular and Cell Biology, Chemistry - UCB; Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
Thermodynamics of small systems and its applications to both biological and non-biological systems.
carlos@alice.berkeley.edu

Van P. Carey (Mechanical Engineering - UCB; Applied Science Division - LBNL)
Thermophysics of multiphase systems; molecular simulation modeling of microscale transport processes, statistical mechanics of microscale systems.
vcarey@me.berkeley.edu

C.J. Chang-Hasnain (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - UCB)
Semiconductor lasers and optoelectronic devices, III-V compound epitaxy and processing, applications in novel optical systems.
cch@eecs.berkeley.edu

Daniel Chemla (Physics - UCB; Materials Sciences Division - LBNL)
Quantum size effects and optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures, time-resolved scanning tunneling microscopy, near-field optical microscopy.
dschemla@lbl.gov

Nathan Cheung (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - UCB)
Expertise in thin film science; IC processing; electronic materials and ion beam technology.
cheung@eecs.berkeley.edu

Daryl C. Chrzan (Materials Science and Engineering - UCB)
Computational materials science, with emphases on dislocation dynamics and the growth of thin films.
dcchrzan@berkeley.edu

 Jhih-Wei Chu (Chemical Engineering - UCB)
Multiscale modeling and simulation of biomolecules and biological assemblies.
jwchu@berkeley.edu

Leon O. Chua (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - UCB)
Nonlinear circuits, nonlinear systems, bifurcation theory, chaos, neural networks. CAD and non-linear electronics.
chua@eecs.berkeley.edu

Paul Concus (Mathematics - UCB; Computing Sciences - LBNL)
Mathematical, computational, and experimental study of fluid interfaces under microgravity conditions.
concus@lbl.gov

Didier de Fontaine (Materials Science and Engineering - UCB; Materials Sciences Division - LBNL)
Thermodynamics of solids, quantum and statistical mechanics of alloy phase stability.
ddf@berkeley.edu

Lutgard C. De Jonghe (Materials Science and Engineering - UCB; Center for Advanced Materials - LBNL)
The science of ceramic processing. Particulate composites of ceramics with polymer, metal or ceramic matrix. Microstructure characterization.
dejonghe@lbl.gov

Robert W. Dibble (Mechanical Engineering - UCB)
Combustion diagnostics, laser diagnostics in reactive flows, gas-phase chemical kinetics, pollution studies.
rdibble@me.berkeley.edu

David Dornfeld (Mechanical Engineering - UCB)
Semiconductor manufacturing.
dornfeld@berkeley.edu

Fiona M. Doyle (Materials Science and Engineering - UCB)
Chemical processing of minerals and materials.
fmdoyle@berkeley.edu

Oscar Dubon (Materials Science and Engineering - UCB)
Electronic materials processing, low-temperature molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), growth and properties of group IV alloys, synthesis of semiconductor nanostructures.
oddubon@berkeley.edu

Roger W. Falcone (Physics - UCB, Advanced Light Source, LBNL)
Quantum electronics and short wavelength coherent light sources, with applications to atomic physics, solid state physics and plasma physics.
rwf@physics.berkeley.edu

Graham Fleming (Chemistry Department, UCB; LBNL; QB3 (UCB, UCSF, UCSC))
Conversion of solar energy into chemical energy using hybrid biological nano-structured materials.
grfleming@lbl.gov

Michael Frenklach (Mechanical Engineering - UCB)
Chemical kinetics; combustion chemistry; pollutant formation; diamond synthesis; interstellar dust formation.
myf@me.berkeley.edu

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Costas P. Grigoropoulos (Mechanical Engineering - UCB)
Micro/nanoscale transport and processing.
cgrigoro@me.berkeley.edu

Ronald Gronsky (Materials Science and Engineering - UCB; National Center for Electron Microscopy - LBNL)
Identification of atomic structure of interfaces and defects in materials using techniques of electron microscopy. Relationship between atomic structure and properties of metallic alloys, ceramics, semiconductors, and superconductors, including the superconducting oxides with high Tc.
rgronsky@berkeley.edu

Jay T. Groves (Chemistry - UCB/LBNL)
Bio-nanotechnology: integrated cell membrane-solid state devices.
jtgroves@lbl.gov

F. Alberto Grunbaum (Mathematics - UCB)
Image reconstruction; tomographic methods in medicine, geophysics, nondestructive evaluation; solitons; signal processing.
grunbaum@math.berkeley.edu

T. Kenneth Gustafson (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Quantum Electronics Group - UCB)
Modern optics and quantum electronic techniques; non-linear phenomena; coherence in electronic materials.
tkg@eecs.berkeley.edu

Eugene E. Haller (Materials Science and Engineering - UCB; Materials Sciences Division - LBNL)
Semiconductor thin-film and bulk crystal growth; study of electronic and structural properties of defects, impurities and complexes in elemental and compound semiconductors with optical, electrical and ion beam techniques; and development of advanced low temperature photon and phonon detectors.
eehaller@lbl.gov

Charles Harris (Chemistry - UCB; Chemical Sciences Division - LBNL)
Transport properties and femtosecond dynamics of electrons in disordered media.
cbharris@berkeley.edu

Teresa L. Head-Gordon (Bioengineering - UCB, LBNL)
Experimental, theoretical and computational approaches toward problems of protein folding and structure prediction and modeling aqueous hydration. Highly multidisciplinary and collaborative among the areas of structural biology, physical chemistry, physics, computer science and mathematical optimization.
tlhead-gordon@lbl.gov

Ali Javey (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
Interdisciplinary research in nanoelectronics and nano-biotechnology.
ajavey@eecs.berkeley.edu

Michael Jordan (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Statistics - UCB)
Statistical machine learning, with specialization in probabilistic graphical models, nonparametric Bayesian methods, and kernel methods, with application interests in signal processing, genomics and proteomics.
jordan@cs.berkeley.edu

Alexander Katz (Chemical Engineering - UCB)
Design and synthesis of novel nano-scale materials using templating-based strategies to create solids with unique electronic and catalytic properties.
katz@cchem.berkeley.edu

Tsu-Jae King (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - UCB)
Integrated circuit devices and thin-film technology for larger area electronics; microelectromechanical devices (MEMS).
tking@eecs.berkeley.edu

Edgar Knobloch (Physics - UCB)
Fluid dynamics, non-linear dynamics, pattern formation.
knobloch@physics.berkeley.edu

Alessandra Lanzara (Physics - UCB; LBNL)
Hydrogen storage in carbon materials and multifunctional solar cells.
alanzara@lbl.gov

Harold Lecar (Molecular and Cell Biology - UCB)
Neurobiology, ionic channels and cell membranes.
hlecar@berkeley.edu

Luke P. Lee (Bioengineering, Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center - UCB)
Biophotonics, BioePOEMS for nanoscale and microscale biological sciences and medicine, BioMEMS, Biomimetic Nanostructures and Devices, Nerual Interfaces, and Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) for MEG and MCG.

During 2006-07, Professor Lee will be on leave at ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology).

lplee@berkeley.edu

Shaofan Li (Civil and Enviromental Engineering, UCB)
Computational statistical mechanics, nano-mechanics, mechanics of soft matter, micromechanics.
shaofan@berkeley.edu

Allan J. Lichtenberg (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Nonlinear Systems and Dynamics Group, Interdisciplinary Plasma Committee - UCB)
Nonlinear dynamics, and plasma discharges for materials processing.
ajl@eecs.berkeley.edu

Michael A. Lieberman (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - UCB)
Interdisciplinary Plasma Committee (UCB). Plasma-assisted materials processing and processing discharges, with applications to integrated circuit fabrication.
lieber@eecs.berkeley.edu

Dorian Liepmann (Mechanical Engineering - UCB)
Experimental biofluid mechanics, vortex dynamics, free-surface flows, hydroacoustics.
liepmann@me.berkeley.edu

Roya Maboudian (Chemical Engineering - UCB)
Surface science of semiconductor materials, micromachining (MEMS).
maboudia@socrates.berkeley.edu

Arunava Majumdar (Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering - UCB)
Nanoscale Diagnostics (Scanning Probe Microscopy); Energy Conversion and Transport in Nanostructures; Optomechanical Microdevices; Nano-Biomolecular Engineering.
majumdar@me.berkeley.edu

Philip S. Marcus (Mechanical Engineering, Nonlinear Dynamics Group - UCB)
Bifurcations and development of chaotic flows, numerical simulation of three- dimensional fluid flow, vortex dynamics, numerical algorithms for large Reynolds number flows, applications to astrophysics and geophysics.
pmarcus@me.berkeley.edu

Sara McMains (Mechanical Engineering - UCB)
Geometric and sold modeling, CAD/CAM/CAPP, layered manufacturing, computer graphics and visualization, virtual prototyping, virtual reality.
mcmains@me.berkeley.edu

Mohammed R. K. Mofrad (Bioengineering - UCB)
Multi-scale/multi-physics approaches for understanding the mechanobiology of cardiovascular disease, and the use of MEMS technology for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
mofrad@berkeley.edu

Paulo Monteiro (Civil and Environmental Engineering - UCB)
Optimization of cementitious materials to obtain durable and smart structures.
monteiro@ce.berkeley.edu

Andrew R. Neureuther (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - UCB)
Photolithography and integrated circuit process technology simulation.
neureuth@eecs.berkeley.edu

Oliver O'Reilly (Mechanical Engineering - UCB)
Modeling and mechanics of electromagnetic continua.
oreilly@me.berkeley.edu

Joseph W. Orenstein (Physics - UCB)
Linear and nonlinear optics to study condensed matter physics, in systems such as superconductors and semiconductors.
jworenstein@lbl.gov

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Panayiotis Papadopoulos (Mechanical Engineering - UCB)
Theoretical and computational mechanics of solids.
panos@me.berkeley.edu

Tad W. Patzek (Civil and Environmental Engineering - UCB)
Numerical modeling of multiphase flow in fractured rock.
patzek@patzek.berkeley.edu

Albert P. Pisano (Mechanical Engineering - UCB)
Micro and nanoscience and technology.
appisano@me.berkeley.edu

Kristofer Pister (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - UCB)
Control, robotics, and biosystems; Integrated circuits.
pister@eecs.berkeley.edu

Lisa Pruitt (Mechanical Engineering, Bioengineering - UCB)
Nano mechanical characterization of polymers, biomaterials, and tissues.
lpruitt@me.berkeley.edu

Ramamoorthy Ramesh (Materials Science Engineering, Physics - UCB)
Complex oxide thin films, heterostructures and nanostructures; highly correlated oxide materials; scanned probes and transmission electron microscopy; nonvolatile memory and MEMS devices.
rramesh@berkeley.edu

Jeffrey Reimer (Chemical Engineering - UCB)
Magnetic resonance studies of polymers, surfaces, and other materials.
reimer@socrates.berkeley.edu

Omer Savas (Mechanical Engineering - UCB)
Aircraft wake vortices, biofluid mechanics, boundary layers, instrumentation, rotating flows, transient aerodynamics, turbulent flows, vortex dynamics.
savas@me.berkeley.edu

Rachel Segalman (Chemical Engineering - UCB)
The fundamental relationship between the structure and electronic properties of conducting polymers for application in organic optoelectronics.
segalman@berkeley.edu

James Sethian (Mathematics - UCB)
Numerical solution at differential equations applied by fluid mechanics, materials sciences, and engineering.
sethian@math.berkeley.edu

Charles V. Shank (Chemistry, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Physics - UCB; Director - LBNL)
Investigation of ultrafast phenomena in physics, chemistry and biology using femtosecond optical pulse techniques.
cvshank@lbl.gov

Irfan Siddiqi (Physics Department)
Quantum coherence in nanostructures at ultra-low temperatures.
irfan_siddiqi@berkeley.edu

Lydia L. Sohn (Mechanical Engineering - UCB)
Developing optical or electronics-based on-chip platform technologies for single-cell analysis.
sohn@me.berkeley.edu

David Steigmann (Mechanical Engineering - UCB)
Application of Continuum Mechanics to Problems in Biophysics.
steigman@me.berkeley.edu

John Strain (Mathematics - UCB)
Scientific computation of material moving interfaces.
strain@math.berkeley.edu

Yuri Suzuki (Materials Science and Engineering)
Magnetics, in particular magnetic oxide thin films, devices and nanostructures and junction devices and photonic badgap materials.
ysuzuki@berkeley.edu

Andrew J. Szeri (Mechanical Engineering - UCB)
Convective/diffusive transport, nonlinear dynamics, perturbation methods.
aszeri@me.berkeley.edu

John P. Verboncoeur (Nuclear Engineering - UCB)
Computational plasma physics; beam physics and electromagnetics.
johnv@nuc.berkeley.edu

K. Birgitta Whaley (Chemistry - UCB)
Theory of atomic and molecular clusters, nanostructures, and high-energy density materials.
whaley@berkeley.edu

Richard M. White (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - UCB)
Ultrasonics, micromachined sensing and actuation devices for physical, chemical, and biological applications.
rwhite@eecs.berkeley.edu

Junqiao Wu (Materials Science and Engineering - UCB; Materials Science Division (LBNL))
Nanomaterials for applications in electronics, photovoltaics, and photonics.
wuj@berkeley.edu

Ming Wu (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - UCB)
Micro and nano technologies, optical MEMS, nanophotonics, optoelectronics, biophotonics.
wu@eecs.berkeley.edu

Eli Yablonovitch (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UCB)
Silicon nano-photonics, nano-electronics, plasmonics, and the development of components for quantum information processing technology.
eliy@eecs.berkeley.edu

Peidong Yang (Chemistry, Materials Science and Engineering - UCB)
Low-dimensional nanoscopic building blocks are used to assemble complex architectures with novel electronic and photonic properties.
p_yang@berkeley.edu

Peter Yu (Physics - UCB, LBNL)
Device application of semiconductors such as defects, electron-phonon interactions and effects on these as a result of quantum confinement.
pyyu@lbl.gov

Xiang Zhang (Mechanical Engineering, Director: NSF Nano-Scale Science and Engineering Center - UCB)
Applied physics, nano-photonics, nano-devices engineering, and novel nano-scale fabrication.
xiang@me.berkeley.edu

Tarek I. Zohdi (Mechanical Engineering - UCB)
Multiscale representation of materials.
zohdi@me.berkeley.edu