Affiliated Faculty

Mohammad Javad Abdolhosseini Qomi, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering 
Research Interests: Mechanics and physics of multi-scale porous materials, nano- and meso-chemo-mechanics, engineering advanced materials for sustainable infrastructures 
Email: mjaq@uci.edu 
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Tayloria Adams, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Research Interests: Dielectrophoresis, microfluidic devices, stem cells, biomarker development, cell membrane biophysics, cell sorting
Email: tayloria@uci.edu

 

Shane Ardo, Ph.D.

Professor of Chemistry; Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests: inorganic and organometallic, physical chemistry and chemical physics, polymer, materials, nanoscience
Email: ardo@uci.edu
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Plamen Atanassov, Ph.D.

Chancellor’s Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests: electrocatalysis and electrocatalysts for energy conversion processes; bio-electrocatalysis and energy harvesting systems
Email: plamen.atanassov@uci.edu

 

Penghui Cao, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests: computational designing of damage-tolerant materials, nanocrystalline metals and alloys, multiscale mechanics of materials: plastic deformation, creep, and failure mechanisms
Email: caoph@uci.edu

Sarah Finkeldei, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry; Materials Science and Engineering; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Research Interests: nuclear materials chemistry, in particular oxide ceramics; structural uptake of radionuclides; nuclear waste form stability and corrosion behaviour
Email: sfinkeld@uci.edu
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Zhibin Guan, Ph.D.

Professor, Chemistry; Biomedical Engineering; Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests: Synthesis of new generation of biomaterials for gene/drug delivery and tissue regeneration
Email: zguan@uci.edu

Jered Haun, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests: nanotechnology, molecular engineering, computational simulations, targeted drug delivery, clinical cancer detection
Email: jered.haun@uci.edu
 

Matt Law, Ph.D.

Professor of Chemistry; Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests: inorganic and organometallic, physical chemistry and chemical physics, polymer, materials, nanoscience
Email: matt.law@uci.edu

Howard Lee, Ph.D.

Professor of Physics & Astronomy; Beckman Laser Institute; Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests: Active nano-optics/plasmonics/optical metasurfaces, Zero-index linear and nonlinear optics and materials, “Meta"-optical fibers for biophotonics, advanced endoscopy, sensing/lasing, and spectroscopy, Quantum bio-photonics/imaging using nanophotonic platform, Hybrid photonic-plasmonic on-chip optical nanocircuits and devices, Extreme light-matter interaction
Email: Howardhw.lee@uci.edu

 

Mo Li, Ph.D.

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests: Responsive materials, self-healing and multifunctional infrastructure materials, advanced manufacturing, decarbonization, fracture mechanics, cement chemistry, materials-structure-environment interaction
Email: mo.li@uci.edu
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Ray Luo, Ph.D.

Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry; Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests: computational biochemistry and molecular biophysics, intermolecular interactions in proteins and nucleic acids and their applications to drug design
Email: ray.luo@uci.edu
 

Ali Mohraz, Ph.D.

Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests: colloid science, soft matter engineering with applications in health care and energy materials
Email: mohraz@uci.edu
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SungWoo Nam, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests: materials, mechanics and multifunctionality, understanding mechanically coupled properties in low-dimensional materials, building devices based on advanced materials
Email: sungwoo.nam@uci.edu
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Joe Patterson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Chemistry; Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests: Polymer, materials, nanoscience
Email: patters3@uci.edu
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Maxim Shcherbakov, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: Nanotechnology, nonlinear and quantum optics, optics-based telecommunications and computing, laser physics
Email: maxim.shcherbakov@uci.edu
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Matt Sheldon, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry 
Research Interests: Nanomaterials for Solar Energy Conversion 
Email: m.sheldon@uci.edu 
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Quinton Smith, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Research Interests: Pluripotent stem cells, regenerative medicine, organoids, microfluidics, tissue engineering
Email: quintons@uci.edu
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Xizheng Wang, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 
Research Interests: Sustainable electrified synthesis and manufacturing of functional nano/bulk materials, electrified additive manufacturing, in-situ characterizations under extreme thermal conditions 
Email: xizhengw@uci.edu 
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Yoonjin Won, Ph.D.

Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests: multi-scale structures for thermal and energy applications, in particular fabrication, characterization, and integration of structured materials
Email: won@uci.edu
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Huolin Xin, Ph.D.

Professor of Physics & Astronomy; Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests: condensed matter physics
Email: huolinx@uci.edu
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Iryna Zenyuk, Ph.D.

Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Associate Director, National Fuel Cell Research Center; Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests: renewable energy, fuel cells, electrolyzers, batteries, X-ray imaging techniques, multi-scale modeling, transport phenomena
Email: iryna.zenyuk@uci.edu