MSE Faculty
Kristi Anseth
Distinguished Professor • Tisone Professor • Associate Professor of Surgery
Polymers, hydrogels, biomaterials, synthetic extracellular matrices, photopolymers, networks
Chunmei Ban
Associate Professor
Control of the hierarchical structure of multilength-scale materials, chemical and physical properties of materials, manipulating the interface for energy technologies
Kōnane Bay
Assistant Professor
Extreme mechanics of biofilms, spatially programming the stimuli-responsive behaviors of living polymeric composites, engineering the mechanical properties of biohybrid hydrogels
Christopher Bowman
Distinguished Professor • Clinical Professor of Restorative Dentistry • Co-Director of the NSF I/UCRC for Fundamentals and Applications and Photopolymerizations
Polymer chemistry, polymer networks, biomaterials, smart/responsive materials, photopolymerizations, optical materials, photolithography
Stephanie Bryant
Professor • Director, Materials Science & Engineering Program
Biomaterials, tissue engineering, polymer chemistry, photopolymerization, hydrogels
Jason Burdick
Bowman Endowed Professor
Biomaterials and biofabrication, translational therapeutics, tissue models, hydrogels
Sarah Calve
Associate Professor
Mechanics of soft biological materials, musculoskeletal development and regeneration, extracellular matrix
Gang Cao
Professor
Novel electronic and magnetic materials; single-crystal synthesis; physics of complex oxides; high-field, low-temperature, and high-pressure material properties
Jennifer Cha
David Clough Professor
Nanoscience, biomolecular materials, photovoltaic materials, nanoparticle thin films, catalysis, surface science, colloids, polymers and polypeptides, biosensors
Longji Cui
Assistant Professor
Atomic, Molecular, and Quantum Energy Transport and Conversion, Ultrahigh Precision Sensing, Scanning Probe Microscopy, Thermal Radiation, and Nano-Optics
Tanja Cuk
Associate Professor • Professor Adjunct, NREL • Institute Fellow, RASEI
Physical chemistry, heterogeneous catalysis/reaction dynamics, material surfaces, renewable energy
Robert Davis
Tisone Professor • Dean Emeritus of the College of Engineering and Applied Science
Fluid dynamics, biotechnology, membrane filtration
Daniel Dessau
Professor • Adjunct Fellow, JILA
Electronic materials, superconductors,magnetic materials, topological insulators, spintronics, organic photovoltaics, electron spectroscopy, thin films
Yifu Ding
Professor • MAST Center Director • Materials, Mechanics of Materials, Micro/Nanoscale
Polymer physics, nanofabrication, thin films, nanocomposites, polymer-based membranes, smart materials
Gordana Dukovic
Professor • Institute Fellow, RASEI
Nanocrystal synthesis and spectroscopy, photochemistry, solar fuels, catalysis, solar energy conversion, inorganic nanomaterials
Virginia Ferguson
Professor • Hudson Moore Professor
Materials characterization, nanomechanics, nanoindentation, scanning electron microscopy, standardization of materials measurements, structure-function relationships, tissue mechanics, biological tissue chemistry, bone, cartilage, materials for tissue engineering, properties of tissues in pregnancy
Steven George
Professor
Thin films, surface chemistry, nanoscale engineering, atomic layer deposition, molecular layer deposition, hybrid organic-inorganic materials, Li ion batteries, supercapacitors, fuel cells, protective coatings and barriers, transparent conducting films
Andrew Goodwin
Associate Professor
Polymer chemistry, soft materials, self‐assembly, nanostructures, biomedical engineering
Juliet Gopinath
Professor • Alfred T. and Betty E. Look Endowed Professor
Semiconductors, Chalcogenides, Nonlinear optical material properties, Lasers, Optofluidics, Electrowetting
András Gyenis
Assistant Professor
Hybrid superconducting and semiconducting qubits with the goal to enhance the lifetime of artificial atoms
Ryan Hayward
James and Catherine Patten Endowed Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Assembly of polymer and particle-based nanostructures, mechanics and instabilities of soft active materials, active polymer materials and interfaces
Adam Holewinski
Associate Professor • RASEI Fellow
Catalysts, electrochemistry, surface chemistry, fuel cells, batteries, spectroscopy, reaction kinetics
Mija Hubler
Associate Professor • Co-Director of the Center for Infrastructure, Energy and Space Testing (CIEST)
Cementitious materials, micro-structure quantification and design, permeability, fracture mechanics, micro- and meso- scale experimental testing and simulation techniques, failure prediction of construction materials, construction material health risks and toxicity
Mahmoud Hussein
Alvah and Harriet Hovlid Professor
Dynamics of materials and structures; dispersive, dissipative and nonlinear dynamics; periodic systems, disordered systems
Kaushik Jayaram
Assistant Professor
Bioinspired robotics, biomechanics, locomotion robustness, origami-based design and fabrication, distributed sensing
Oana Luca
Assistant Professor
Physical Inorganic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Organometallic, Solar Fuel Conversions
Joseph MacLennan
Professor Attendant Rank • PHYS Faculty Mentor
Liquid crystals, electrooptics, thin films
Seth Marder
Professor • Director, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute
Polymeric, organic, and organometallic materials for both second- and third-order nonlinear (NLO) optical studies and applications; materials for OLED, OFET, OPV and DSSC applications
Sheldon Masters
Assistant Professor
Drinking water treatment, distribution system water quality, and water pipeline corrosion
Michael McGehee
Professor • Fellow, RASEI
Perovskite solar cells, dynamic windows with adjustable tinting
Robert McLeod
Richard & Joy Dorf Endowed Professor
Photopolymers, optical materials, optical characterization, organic electronics, photolithography, 3D structuring, biomaterials
J. Will Medlin
Denver Business Challenge Endowed Professor
Catalysts, photocatalysts, surface modification, surface spectroscopy, sensors
Alan Mickelson
Associate Professor
Thin films, polymer processing/device fabrication, nanotechnology for optics/elecgronics, plasmonics
Andrés Montoya-Castillo
Assistant Professor
Physical Chemistry, Theoretical Chemistry, Chemical Physics
Charles Musgrave
Robert H. Davis Professor • Associate Dean of Graduate Programs • Fellow, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute
Computational materials science, quantum simulations, photovoltaics, photopolymerization, thin films, catalysis, energy storage materials, pseudocapacitor materials
Sanghamitra Neogi
Assistant Professor
Structure-processing-(thermal)property relationships: Crystals, solid-fluid material interfaces, composites, low-dimensional systems, thermoelectric materials; Vibrations: waves (kHz- THz) and heat propagation, dissipative and nonlinear dynamics, nanohonononics; Analytical theory, classical and ab initio molecular dynamics simulations, muliscale methods
Richard D. Noble
Research Professor
Ionic liquids, external fields for selective separations, liquid crystals
Jihye Park
Assistant Professor
Inorganic; Nanotechnology/Materials; Photochemical Reactions & Multi-electron Chemistry; Physical Organic Chemistry; Renewable Energy
Wounjhang Park
Professor • N. Rex Sheppard Faculty Fellow
Luminescent materials, metamaterials, nanostructures, surface plasmons, biophotonic materials, nonlinear optical materials and devices, materials for lighting and photovoltaic devices
Cindy Regal
Associate Professor • Baur-SPIE Endowed Chair in Optical Physics and Photonics
Engineering and exploring isolated quantum systems for quantum information and quantum optics
Richard Regueiro
Professor
Geomaterials, soft biological tissues, multiscale multiphysics computational mechanics, thin deformable porous materials, particulate materials
Garry Rumbles
Adjoint Professor • Research Fellow, NREL • Associate Director of Research, RASEI
Organic photovoltaics, conjugated polymers, photoinduced electron transfer, transient microwave conductivity
Sean Shaheen
Professor
Organic & hybrid semiconductors for emerging devices: photovoltaics, photonics and neuromorphics
C. Wyatt Shields IV
Assistant Professor
Drug delivery, biosensing, soft materials, colloid and interface science, microfluidics
Ivan Smalyukh
Professor
Liquid crystals, organic photovoltaics, nanostructured materilas, soft materials, colloids, polymers, grapheme, biomolecular materials, bacterial biofilms, plasmonic nanoparticles, self-assembly, electro-optic materials, nanophotonics
Wil Srubar
Associate Professor
Biomaterials, fiber-reinforced polymers, cementitious materials, mechanics, transport phenomena, environmental durability, life cycle assessment, service-life prediction
Anthony Straub
Assistant Professor
Membranes, nanoporous materials, surface coatings, polymeric materials, carbon nanomaterials, superhydrophobicity, transport phenomena.
Jao Van De Lagemaat
RASEI Fellow • Center Director II-Technical at NREL
Energetics and transport properties of single semiconductor nanoparticles (quantum dots) and arrays of nanoparticles
Franck Vernerey
Professor
Biological materials, soft tissue, mechanical behavior, plasticity, damage, fracture, hydrogels, soft matter, multiscale methods in materials science, fibrous materials. Numerical methods
Maciej Walczak
Associate Professor
Synthesis, Chemical Biology/Genetics, Physical Organic, Materials Science
Gregory Whiting
Associate Professor
Printed electronics, organic electronics, transient electronics, large area electronics, additive manufacturing, distributed sensing
Jianliang Xiao
Associate Professor
Thin films, soft matter, stretchable/flexible electronics, nanomaterials
Sadegh Yazdi
CU FEMM Director • Associate Research Professor, RASEI
Novel electron microscope techniques, characterization of nanostructures at the atomic level, energy related materials
Xiaobo Yin
Visiting Professor
Scalable nanomanufacturing, nanophotonics, nanomaterials, graphene, two-dimensional materials, optoelectronic materials, optical metamaterials, acoustic metamaterials, optical and acoustical super-resolution imaging
Wei Zhang
Professor
Organic functional materials, porous frameworks, organic molecular cage, shape-persistent macrocycle,carbon capture, polymer chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, artificial photosynthesis, organic nanotube
Yida Zhang
Assistant Professor
Constitutive modeling of geomaterials (soil, rock) interacting with environmental factors (adsorption, dissolution, elevated temperature), micromechanics of granular materials, unsaturated soil behaviors, numerical modeling in geotechnical engineering and energy geotechnics
Alex Zunger
Research Professor
Mechanics of soft biological materials, musculoskeletal development and regeneration, extracellular matrix