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Millard H. Alexander (CHEM)
Ph.D. Univ. of Paris (1967)
Theoretical studies of inelastic and reactive molecular collisions.
301-405-1823
mha@umd.edu
Mikhail Anisimov (IPST)
Ph.D. Moscow State Univ. (1968)
Phase transitions; critical phenomena in "soft" condensed matter systems.
301-405-8049
anisimov@ipst.umd.edu
Robert M. Briber (ENMN)
Ph.D. Univ. Massachusetts (1984)
Thermodynamics and structure of polymers.
301-405-7313
rbriber@umd.edu
Richard V. Calabrese (ENCH)
Ph.D. Univ. of Mass. (1976)
Fluid Dynamics; Multiphase Flow. Computational Fluid Dynamics.
301-405-1980
rvc@umd.edu
James Carton (Atmospheric & Oceanic Science)
Ph.D. Princeton Univ. (1983)
Climate, ocean dynamics, data assimilation.
301-405-5365
carton@atmos.umd.edu
Ramalingam Chellappa (ENEE)
Ph.D. Purdue Univ. (1981)
Image analysis for medical imaging; motion analysis of non-rigid objects.
301-405-3656
chella@umd.edu
Michael A. Coplan (IPST)
Ph.D. Yale Univ. (1963)
Studies of the interplanetary medium, charged particle scattering.
301-405-4858
coplan@umd.edu
John Cumings (MSE)
Ph.D. UC Berkeley (2002)
Experimental condensed matter.
301-405-0789
cumings@umd.edu
Mario Dagenais (ENEE)
Ph.D. Univ. of Rochester (1978)
Integrated opto-electronics.
301-405-3684
dage@umd.edu
Christopher C. Davis (ENEE)
Ph.D. Univ. of Manchester (1970)
Coherent optics; optical/electrical measurements for biology.
301-405-3637
davis@umd.edu
Russell R. Dickerson (METO)
Ph.D. Univ. of Michigan (1980)
Atmospheric chemistry and physics, photochemistry, and global biogeochemical cycles.
301-405-5364
russ@atmos.umd.edu
Panagiotis Dimitrakopoulos (ENCH)
Ph.D. Univ. of Illinois at Urbana (1998)
Fluid mechanics; Biological fluid dynamics; Rheology of emulsions, foams and particulate flows, polymer solutions and melts.
301-405-8166
dimitrak@eng.umd.edu
J. Robert Dorfman (IPST/PHYS)
Ph.D. Johns-Hopkins Univ. (1961)
Kinetic theory of gases; dynamical systems, hydrodynamics.
301-405-4804
jrd@glue.umd.edu
Sheryl Ehrman (ENCH)
Ph.D. UCLA (1997)
Experimental and theoretical studies of nanoparticles and nanostructured materials.
301-405-1917
sehrman@eng.umd.edu
Theodore L. Einstein (PHYS)
Ph.D. Univ. of PA (1973)
Theoretical surface physics: statistical mechanics and related electronic and experimental aspects.
301-405-6147
einstein@umd.edu
Douglas English (CHEM)
Ph.D. Iowa State University (1998)
Single molecule imaging and spectroscopy of self-assembling biomimetic membrane systems and peptide conformation dynamics at interfaces.
301-405-3368
denglish@umd.edu
Daniel L. Falvey (CHEM) 
Ph.D. Univ. of Illinois (1989)
Photochemical and photophysical behavior of biological molecules.
301-405-1808
falvey@umd.edu
Michael E. Fisher (IPST/PHYS)
Ph.D. King's College London (1957)
Statistical physics especially for phase transitions, criticality in fluids, electrolytes, interfaces; molecular motors, etc.
301-405-4819
xpectnil@ipst.umd.edu
Michael S. Fuhrer (PHYS)
Ph.D. UC Berkeley (1998)
Fabrication and experimental studies of electronic and mechanical properties of novel nanostructures.
301-405-6143
mfuhrer@physics.umd.edu
David Fushman (CHEM)
Ph.D. Univ. of Kazan (1985)
Theoretical and experimental studies of structure, dynamics, and interactions of biomacromolecules.
301-405-3461
fushman@umd.edu
Robert W. Gammon (IPST)
Ph.D. Johns Hopkins Univ. (1967)
Study of fluctuations near critical phase transitions in crystals and fluids.
301-405-4791
rgammon@umd.edu
Mike Gilson (CARB/UMBI)
Ph.D. Columbia Univ. (1989)
Center for Advanced Research Biotechnology
240-314-6217
gilson@umbi.umd.edu
Marshall L. Ginter (IPST)
Ph.D. Vanderbilt Univ. (1961)
Excited electronic structures in atoms and small molecules of atmospheric, astrophysical and/or theoretical importance.
301-405-4809
ginter@umd.edu
Sandra C. Greer (ENCH)
Ph.D. Univ. of Chicago (1969)
Studies of polymers and biopolymers in solution.
301-405-1895
sgreer@umd.edu
Murthy Gudipati (JPL, Caltech/IPST)
Ph.D. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (1987)
Chemical Physics, Physical Chemistry, and Astrophysics with the common denominator being atomic and molecular spectroscopy from far infrared into deep vacuum ultraviolet.
818-354-2637
gudipati@jpl.nasa.gov
gudipati@umd.edu
Ashwani K. Gupta (ENME)
Ph.D. (1973) D.Sc. (Tech) Sheffield (1986)
Energy, combustion, and environmental pollution.
301-405-5276
akgupta@umd.edu
Wendell T. Hill (IPST)
Ph.D. Stanford Univ. (1980)
Nonequilibrium, dynamic states of matter.
301-405-4813
http://www.ipst.umd.edu/Hill_Lab
wth@umd.edu
Raj K. Khanna (CHEM)
Ph.D. Indian Institute of Science (1962)
Theoretical analysis of crystal field effects; spectroscopic studies of interstellar, cometary and planetary chemistry.
301-405-1894
rkkhanna@umd.edu
Theodore R. Kirkpatrick (IPST/PHYS)
Ph.D. Rockefeller Univ. (1981)
Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and condensed matter physics.
301-405-4801
tedkirkp@umd.edu
Peter Kofinas (ENMN)
Ph.D. MIT (1994)
Synthesis and characteristics of block polymers.
301-405-7335
kofinas@umd.edu
Daniel Kosov (CHEM)
Ph.D. Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Russia (1996)
Theoretical and computational study of electronic processes in molecular scale devices and functional materials, particularly electron transport in molecular wire junctions; modeling electronically excited materials.
301-405-1384
dkosov@umd.edu
Arthur La Porta (PHYS/IPST)
Univ. of California, San Diego (1998)
Development of optical techniques to be applied to problems in molecular biology. Single molecular techniques to investigate force, torque generation in molecular motors and to characterize proteins that bind and modify the structure of DNA.
301-405-3291
alaporta@umd.edu
Daniel P. Lathrop (IPST/PHYS)
Ph.D. Univ. of Texas, Austin (1991)
Nonlinear dynamics and chaos, experimental and numerical studies of fluid dynamics, studies of the earth's magnetic field.
301-405-1594
lathrop@umd.edu
Chi H. Lee (ENEE)
Ph.D. Harvard Univ. (1968)
Applications in time-resolved spectroscopic studies of molecular vibrations.
301-405-3739
chlee@umd.edu
George H. Lorimer (CHEM)
Ph.D. Michigan State Univ. (1972)
Mechanism of chaperonin-assisted protein folding, focusing on the Gro-EL-GroES system from E. coli
301-405-1828
glorimer@umd.edu
Wolfgang Losert (PHYS/IPST/IREAP)
Ph.D. City Univ. of NY (1998)
Equilibrium dynamics of granular flows, and the nonlinear dynamics of microstructure formation in alloys and biomaterials.
301-405-0629
wlosert@umd.edu
Luz J. Martinez-Miranda (ENMN)
Ph.D. MIT (1985)
Analysis and characterization of thin films and buried interfaces.
301-405-0253
ljmm@umd.edu
Alice C. Mignerey (CHEM)
Ph.D. Univ. of Rochester (1975)
Nuclear chemistry.
301-405-1852
mignerey@umd.edu
Howard M. Milchberg (IPST/ENEE)
Ph.D. Princeton Univ. (1985)
High intensity laser interactions with solids, gases, and plasmas.
301-405-4816
milch@umd.edu
Gerald R. Miller (CHEM)
Ph.D. Univ. of Illinois (1962)
Application of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to the study of solids, liquids, and interfaces.
301-405-1799
grmiller@umd.edu
John H. Moore (CHEM)
Ph.D. Johns Hopkins Univ. (1967)
Application of electron scattering experiments.
301-405-1867
jhmoore@umd.edu
Sumant Nigam (AOSC/ESSIC)
Ph.D. Princeton University (1984)
Climate dynamics, tropical ocean-atmosphere interaction, hydroclimate variability.
301-405-5381
nigam@atmos.umd.edu
Edward Ott (ENEE/PHYS)
Ph.D. (Brooklyn) Polytechnic Institute of New York (1967)
Chaos in dynamical systems including both fundamental aspects of chaotic dynamics and applications.
301-405-5033
Min Ouyang (PHYS)
Ph.D. Harvard University (2001)
Spin degree of freedom of electrons and nuclei within ordered nano-engineered architectures.
301-405-5985
mouyang@umd.edu
William D. Phillips (PHYS/IPST)
Ph.D. MIT (1976)
Laser cooling, Bose-Einstein condensation, atom optics, optical lattices, quantum information.
301-975-6554
wdp@umd.edu
Oded Rabin (ENGR)
M.I.T. (2004)
Synthesis and characterization of nanoparticles and nanowires. Electrical and thermal transport. Energy. Chemical sensing at surfaces and biomedical imaging.
301-405-3382
oded@umd.edu
Srinivasa R. Raghavan (ENCH)
Ph.D. N.Carolina State Univ. (1998)
Complex fluids and soft matter structured at the micro- or nano- scale. Rheology, microscopy and scattering techniques.
301-405-8164
sraghava@umd.edu
Janice E. Reutt-Robey (CHEM)
Ph.D. Univ. of CA, Berkeley (1986)
Experimental studies of surface chemistry and dynamics on a nanoscale.
301-405-1807
rrobey@umd.edu
Steven Rolston
Ph.D. State Univ. of NY at Stony Brook (1986)
Optical lattices, Bose-Einstein condensation, ultracold plasmas.
301-405-7189
rolston@umd.edu
Rajarshi Roy (IPST/PHYS)
Ph.D. Univ. of Rochester (1981)
Quantum electronics/optics, noise and nonlinear dynamics in optical systems, experimental statistical physics.
301-405-1636
rroy@umd.edu
Jan V. Sengers (IPST/ENCH)
Ph.D. Univ. of Amsterdam (1962)
Critical phenomena and phase transitions in fluids and fluid mixtures.
301-405-4805
sengers@umd.edu
Eun-Suk Seo (IPST/PHYS)
Ph.D. Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge
High energy cosmic ray composition and energy spectra.
301-405-4855
seo@umd.edu
D. Thirumalai (IPST/CHEM)
Ph.D. Univ. of Minnesota (1982)
Development of theoretical approaches to properties of complex systems.
301-405-4803
thirum@umd.edu
John Tossell (CHEM/BIOCHEM)
Ph.D. Harvard Univ. (1972)
The geometric and electronic structure of various molecules and clusters occuring both in gas and condensed phases.
301-405-1868
tossell@umd.edu
Arpita Upadhyaya (PHYS/IPST)
Ph.D. Univ. of Notre Dame (2000)
Biophysics of cellular movements; mechanics of membranes and biopolymers.
301-405-9939
arpitau@umd.edu
Thirumalai Venkatesan (PHYS/ENEE)
Ph.D. Bell Labs and City Univ. of NY (1977)
Superconductivity, physics and applications of thin films, surface modification, beam-solid interactions.
301-405-7320
venky@umd.edu
Robert A. Walker (CHEM)
Ph.D. Univ. of Wisc.-Madison (1995)
Structure and dynamics of molecules.
301-405-8667
rawalker@umd.edu
John D. Weeks (CHEM/IPST)
Ph.D. Univ. of Chicago (1969)
Theories for the structure and dynamics of liquids.
301-405-4802
jdw@umd.edu
Ellen D. Williams (PHYS/IPST)
Ph.D. CA Institute of Technology (1982)
Properties of solid surfaces.
301-405-6156
edw@umd.edu
Yihua Bruce Yu (ENGR)
Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University (1996)
Biomaterials engineering focusing on structure function relationship. Drug delivery research focusing on integrating imaging with delivery.
301-405-2829
byu@rx.umaryland.edu
Michael Zachariah (ENME/CHEM)
Ph.D. UCLA, Los Angeles (1986)
Nanoparticles (aerosols) creation, characterization, application, and modeling. Single-particle mass-spectrometry and laser based spectroscopes analysis.
301-405-4311
mrz@umd.edu
AOSC - Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science
CHEM - Chemistry & Biochemistry
ENCH - Chemical Engineering
ENEE - Electrical Engineering
ENGR - Materials Science & Engineering
ENMN - Materials & Nuclear Engineering
ENME - Mechanical Engineering
ESSIC - Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center
IPR - Institute for Plasma Research
IPST - Institute for Physical Science & Technology
METO - Meteorology
PHYS - Physics


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