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Affiliated Faculty

Affiliated Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) faculty are scientifically associated with the MSE program and serve as advisors and thesis committee members.

Participating faculty are listed separately.

Faculty Member		Research
	Rama Bansil Professor College of Arts and Sciences Physics Email:rb@bu.edu Phone:617-353-2629	Synthetic and biological macromolecules.
	Paul Barbone Associate Professor College of Engineering ME Email: barbone@bu.edu Phone:617-353-6063	Theoretical and computational (bio) mechanics, multi-scale modeling, microstructure, theoretical and computational acoustics.
	Thomas G. Bifano Professor; Director, Photonics Center College of Engineering ME Email: tgb@bu.edu Phone: 617-353-8899	Deformable mirrors, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), adaptive optics.
	John Caradonna Associate Professor College of Arts and Sciences Chemistry Email: caradonn@bu.edu Phone: 617-353-1692	Mechanism of action of non-heme iron metalloproteins with a focus on the chemistry of metalloenzyme active sites involved in biological oxidation reactions.
	Antonio Castro-Neto Professor College of Arts and Sciences Physics Email: neto@bu.edu Phone: 617-353-6116	Graphene, strongly correlated systems, disordered magnetic systems.
	Claudio Chamon Professor College of Arts and Sciences Physics Email: chamon@bu.edu Phone: 617-353-5787	Strongly correlated quantum matter and out-of-equilibrium dynamics of classlical and quantum systems.
	Laisheng Chou Professor Goldman School of Dental Medicine Restorative Sciences/Biomaterials Email: lchou@bu.edu Phone: 617-638-5598	Molecular biocompatibility of implant materials.
	James Collins Professor College of Engineering BME Email: jcollins@bu.edu Phone: 617-353-0390	Synthetic biology; systems biology; noise-enhanced sensorimotor function
	Linda Doerrer Assistant Professor College of Arts and Sciences Chemistry Email: doerrer@bu.edu Phone: 617-358-4335	Magnetic materials and metals.
	Michael El-Batanouny Professor College of Arts and Sciences Physics Email: elbat@bu.edu Phone: 617-353-4721	Magnetism at surfaces.
	Shyamsunder Erramilli Professor College of Arts and Sciences Physics Email: shyam@bu.edu Phone: 617-353-2600	Biological materials.
	Evan Evans Professor College of Engineering BME Email: evanse@bu.edu Phone: 617-353-9341	Nano-microscale biomechanics; ultrasensitive force probes and extreme resolution optical techniques; material properties of soft biological materials, e.g. biomembranes.
	Maxim Frank-Kamenetskii Professor College of Engineering BME Email: mfk@bu.edu Phone: 617-353-8498	DNA, pNA DNA structures; DNA topology; DNA functioning, PNA (peptide nucleic acid).
	Russell Giordano Associate Professor Goldman School of Dental Medicine Restorative Sciences/Biomaterials Email: rgiord@bu.edu Phone: 617-638-5592	Fabrication of multiple phase interpenetrating ceramic composites.
	Bennett Goldberg Professor College of Arts and Sciences Physics Email: goldberg@bu.edu Phone: 617-353-5789	Optical characterization of materials, sensor design.
	Guilford Jones Professor College of Arts and Sciences Chemistry Email: giljones@bu.edu Phone: 617-353-8656	Photochemistry and photophysical properties of dyes, dye probes, and chromophore conjugates of polymers and proteins. Design of photosynthetic models (photoactive peptides) that are capable of charge transport.
	William Klein Professor College of Arts and Sciences Physics Email: klein@bu.edu Phone: 617-353-2188	Statistical physics of materials.
	Karl Ludwig Professor College of Arts and Sciences Physics Email: ludwig@bu.edu Phone: 617-353-9346	Surfaces, real time x-ray studies during thin film processing, phase transitions.
	J. Gregory McDaniel Associate Professor College of Engineering ME Email: jgm@bu.edu Phone: 617-353-4847	Structural acoustics and interactions of vibrations and acoustics with complex structures and media.
	Amit Meller Associate Professor College of Engineering BME Email: ameller@bu.edu Phone: 617-358-4338	Biomolecular interactions and dynamics, single molecule sensors, nanomaterials, biopolymers.
	Pritiraj Mohanty Associate Professor College of Arts and Sciences Physics Email: mohanty@bu.edu Phone: 617-353-2600	Nanoscale materials, mechanical properties.
	Theodore Morse Professor College of Engineering ECE Email: tfmorse@bu.edu Phone: 617-353-2811	Aerosol techniques for the synthesis of fiber lasers, unagglommerated nanoscale particles. Recent efforts have also been in the areas of synthesis of transparent, polycrystalline ceramics for high power laser applications, and for the use of these particles in the development of large scale gamma-ray scintillators for medical imaging and explosive detection.
	Dan Nathanson Professor Goldman School of Dental Medicine Restorative Sciences/Biomaterials Email: dnathan@bu.edu Phone: 617-638-4702	Biomaterials with emphasis is on esthetic restorative materials.
	Roberto Paiella Assistant Professor College of Engineering ECE Email: rpaiella@bu.edu Phone: 617-353-8883	Intersubband transitions in III-nitride quantum wells to develop nonlinear optical switches for ultra-high-speed optical communications, and mid- and far-infrared light emitters for sensing and imaging applications.
	Richard Pober Research Associate Professor Goldman School of Dental Medicine Restorative Sciences/Biomaterials Email: rpober@bu.edu Phone: 617-638-5685	Ceramics engineering, interpenetrating phase materials, mechanics of materials, materials design, process design, equipment design.
	Anatoli Polkovnikov Assistant Professor College of Arts and Sciences Physics Email: asp@bu.edu Phone: 617-358-4394	Strongly correlated systems, physics of cold atoms and spin systems, superconductivity.
	Sidney Redner Professor College of Arts and Sciences Physics Email: redner@bu.edu Phone:617-353-2618	Non-equilibrium statistical physics of materials.
	Bjorn Rienhard Assistant Professor College of Arts and Sciences Chemistry Email: bmr@bu.edu Phone: 617-358-0511	Photophysical properties of nanoparticles and the applications of these nanoparticles to biological sensors and devices.
	Anders Sandvik Associate Professor College of Arts and Sciences Physics Email: sandvik@bu.edu Phone: 617-353-3843	Computational research on interacting quantum many-body systems.
	Daniel Segrè Assistant Professor College of Engineering/BME BU/Bioinformatics College of Arts and Sciences/Biology Email: dsegre@bu.edu Phone: 617-358-2301	Evolutionary dynamics of biological networks, in particular the interplay between response to genetic and environmental perturbations, genomic-level functional organization, and optimal adaptation.
	Kevin Smith Professor College of Arts and Sciences Physics Email: ksmith@bu.edu Phone: 617-353-6117	Electronic structure of materials.
	Dimitrije Stamenovic Associate Professor College of Engineering BME Email: dimitrij@bu.edu Phone: 617-353-5902	Cellular mechanics, rheology of soft tissues and cell, respiratory mechanics, mechanics of foam-like structure.
	H. Eugene Stanley Professor College of Arts and Sciences Physics Email: hes@bu.edu Phone: 617-353-2617	Statistical physics of materials.
	John Straub Professor College of Arts and Sciences Chemistry Email:straub Phone: 617-353-6816	Theoretical and computational chemistry and biophysics.
	Bela Suki Professor College of Engineering BME Email: bsuki@bu.edu Phone: 617-353-5907	Biomechanics of tissues and extracellular matrix, the ensemble behavior of complex biological systems; nonlinearities in biological systems.
	Joe Tien Assistant Professor College of Engineering BME Email:jtien Phone: 617-358-3055	Biological materials, microvascular tissue engineering; microvascular physiology; hydrogels.
	Ophelia K.C. Tsui Associate Professor College of Arts and Sciences Physics Email: okctsui Phone: 617-358-4669	Synthetic and biological macromolecules.
	M. Selim Ünlü Professor College of Engineering ECE Email:selim Phone: 617-353-5067	Nanoscale materials, optical properties, biophysics, sensors.
	Katherine Yanhang Zhang Assistant Professor College of Engineering ME Email: yanhang@bu.edu Phone: 617-358-4406	Mechanical behavior of soft biological tissue, multi-scale modeling of biological composites, thin film mechanics.
	Lawrence Ziegler Professor College of Arts and Sciences Chemistry Email: lziegler@bu.edu Phone: 617-353-8663	Ultrafast femtosecond laser measurements in a variety of materials, femtosecond carrier relaxation dynamics and optical properties of wide range of materials which include liquids, supercritical fluids, photodissociative molecules, biologically important species and wide band gap semiconductors.