People

The Division of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) is home of faculty engaged in cutting-edge interdisciplinary materials research across the University, including faculty in engineering, physics, and chemistry.

Participating Faculty

Participating Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) faculty are expected to advise and mentor MSE graduate students, and help teach courses in the program. Other affiliated faculty within Boston University are listed separately.

Faculty Member		Research
	Hatice Altug Assistant Professor College of Engineering ECE Email:altug@bu.edu Phone:617-353-2811	Photonic materials and devices.
	Soumendra N. Basu Professor Associate Division Head College of Engineering ME Email: basu@bu.edu Phone: 617-353-6728	Effects of processing on the structure and properties of environmental barrier and thermal barrier coatings, and photonic and electronic thin films, environmental degradation of materials, phase transformations in energy related materials.
	Enrico Bellotti Associate Professor College of Engineering ECE Email: bellotti@bu.edu Phone: 617-358-1576	Theoretical and computational modeling of nitride semiconductor materials and devices as well devices based on II-VI compounds.
	Luca Dal Negro Assistant Professor College of Engineering ECE Email: dalnegro@bu.edu Phone: 617-358-2627	Novel, nanostructure-based materials solutions for CMOS-compatible light sources and lasers. Characterization of optical transitions in Si-based nanostructures via optical spectroscopy and light amplification techniques.
	Kamil Ekinci Associate Professor College of Engineering ME Email: ekinci@bu.edu Phone: 617-353-8670	Nanomechanics, dissipation and noise in mechanical systems, physics of ultra-thin films.
	Michael Gevelber Associate Professor College of Engineering ME Email: gevelber@bu.edu Phone: 617-353-9693	Improving materials process capabilities using controls based approach: modelling, sensor development, system and control design, experimental verification; plasma spray, bulk crystal growth, CVD, ebeam deposition of optical coatings; electrospinning of nanofibers.
	Bennett Goldberg Professor College of Arts and Sciences Physics Email: goldberg@bu.edu Phone: 617-353-5789	Optical characterization of materials, sensor design.
	Srikanth Gopalan Associate Professor College of Engineering ME Email: sgopalan@bu.edu Phone: 617-358-2297	Solid state ionics, defect chemistry of oxides, fuel cells and gas separation membranes, and transport phenomena in materials science.
	Mark Grinstaff Associate Professor College of Engineering/BME College of Arts and Sciences/Chemistry Email: mgrin@bu.edu Phone: 617-358-3429	Polymers, biomaterials, nanomaterials, wound repair, tissue engineering.
	Catherine Klapperich Assistant Professor College of Engineering ME , joint with BME Email: catherin@bu.edu Phone: 617-358-0253	Nanomechanics of hydrated biomedical implants, gene expression in cells at the cell-biomedical interface, microfluidics device design.
	Xi Lin Assistant Professor College of Engineering ME E-mail: linx@bu.edu Phone: 617-358-3417	Materials theory; predictive simulation of electronic, optical, magnetic, and mechanical properties of materials.
	Elise Morgan Assistant Professor College of Engineering ME Email: efmorgan@bu.edu Phone: 617-353-2791	Mechanical behavior of biological materials, mechanical stimulation of tissue differentiation, micromechanics of multiscale media, damage mechanics.
	Theodore Moustakas Professor Associate Division Head College of Engineering ECE Email: tdm@bu.edu Phone: 617-353-5431	Growth and characterization of materials and devices based on Nitride Semiconductors. The current emphasis of the program is in the area of LEDs for solid state lighting and deep UV lasers and solar blind detectors for fluorescence and Raman identification.
	Todd Murray Associate Professor College of Engineering ME Email: twmurray@bu.edu Phone: 617-353-3951	Optical techniques for materials characterization, photothermal and photoacoustic microscopy, NDE of micro- and nanoscale materials, photorefractive materials and devices, tissue characterization using acousto-optic interactions.
	Uday Pal Professor, Division Head College of Engineering ME Email: upal@bu.edu Phone: 617-353-7708	Research in high-temperature processing of materials with environmental, energy and cost implications. Materials thermodynamics and kinetics, physical chemistry and electrochemistry of materials, solid-state chemistry, transport phenomena, green manufacturing.
	Vinod Sarin Professor College of Engineering ME Email: sarin@bu.edu Phone: 617-353-6451	Materials science, physical and chemical vapor deposition of structural coatings, surface modification, consolidation of ceramics, transparent ceramics, scintillators materials, composites.
	Anna Swan Associate Professor College of Engineering ECE Email: swan@bu.edu Phone: 617-353-1275	Raman spectroscopy in carbon nanotubes and optical characterization of materials, sensors.
	Joyce Wong Associate Professor College of Engineering BME Email: jywong@bu.edu Phone: 617-353-2374	Biomaterials, nanomaterials, tailoring cell-material interfaces for drug delivery and tissue engineering applications; direct, quantitative measurement of biological interactions.
	Xin Zhang Associate Professor College of Engineering ME Email: xinz@bu.edu Phone: 617-358-2702	Materials for MEMS applications.