Faculty Alphabetical List

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Shireen Adenwalla
Associate Professor
Physics & Astronomy
310E Jorgensen Hall
Office: 402-472-2709
sadenwalla1@unl.edu
Adenwalla's website
Research Areas
Structural characterization of materials, magnetic systems, polymers and the development of solid state neutron detectors

Dennis R. Alexander
Kingery Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
248 Scott Engineering Center
Office: 402-472-3091
dalexander1@unl.edu
Alexander's webpage
Research Areas
Ultra fast lasers and their applications, femtosecond lasers, optical switches

Vitaly Alexandrov
Assistant Professor
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
207E Othmer Hall
Office: 402-472-5323
valexandrov2@unl.edu
Research group website
Research Areas
Computational materials science and chemistry, redox flow batteries, defect chemistry, electronic structure

Christos Argyropoulos
Associate Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
411.A Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-3710
christos.argyropoulos@unl.edu
Argyropoulos's website
Research Areas
Nanophotonics, plasmonics, metamaterials, metasurfaces, computational electromagnetics
Google scholar page
ResearcherID

Eveline Baesu
Associate Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
W304 Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-2382
ebaesu2@unl.edu
Baesu's webpage
Research Areas
Solid mechanics, specifically electromechanical effects, fiber networks, and biomechanics.

Balamurugan Balasubramanian
Research Associate Professor
Physics & Astronomy
093 Jorgensen Hall
Office: 402-472-6818
bbalasubramanian2@unl.edu
Sellmyer Group Lab
Google Scholar
Research Areas
Development of novel magnetic materials for energy, spintronics, and information processing; nanomagnetism and spin correlations in nanomagnets; skyrmions in confined geometries

Wei Bao
Assistant Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
E411C Nebraska Hall
Lincoln, NE 68588
Office: 402-472-9491
wbao@unl.edu
Google Scholar Page
Research Areas
Laser physics, quantum optics, matamaterials, optical microscopy, biophotonics, micro-scale engineering

Shannon L. Bartelt-Hunt
Department Chair
Donald R. Voelte, Jr. and Nancy A. Keegan Chair of Engineering and Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering
W181D Nebraska Hall
Lincoln, NE 68588-0531
Office: 402-472-8036
205E Peter Kiewit Institute
Omaha, NE 68182-0178
Office:(402) 554-3868
Research Areas
Physicochemical fate of contaminants in soil and water, contaminant fate and transport in landfills
sbartelt2@unl.edu
Bartelt-Hunt's webpage

Herman Batelaan
Professor
Physics & Astronomy
075 Jorgensen Hall
Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0299
Office: 402-472-3579
hbatelaan@unl.edu
Batelaan's website
Digital Commons
Research Areas
Coherent electron control, slow light/phononic bands
Kirill Belashchenko
Professor
Physics & Astronomy
310D Jorgensen Hall
Office: 402-472-2396
belashchenko@unl.edu
Belashchenko's website
Research Areas
Electronic theory of magnetism and magnetotransport
Google scholar page
ResearcherID

David Berkowitz
Willa Cather Professor
Chemistry
810 Hamilton Hall
Office: 402-472-2738
dberkowitz1@unl.edu
Berkowitz's webpage
Berkowitz group website
Research Areas
Catalyst screening and reaction development, asymmetric synthesis, fluorinated phosphonates , mechanism-based enzyme inhibitors, PLP enzymes, lignan natural products

Christian Binek
Director of NCMN and NNF, Charles Bessey Professor of Physics
Physics & Astronomy
N201A NANO
Office: 402-472-5231
cbinek2@unl.edu
Binek's website
Research Areas
Electrically controlled exchange bias, experimental approach to fundamental aspects in statistical physics, magnetic nanoparticles, magnetic nanostructures for energy-efficient cooling

Florin Bobaru
Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
W307 Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-8348
fbobaru2@unl.edu
Bobaru's webpage
Research Areas
Damage and fracture with peridynamics, modeling of corrosion damage and stress corrosion cracking, failure in heterogeneous materials, dynamics of granular materials, optimization of material composition and optimal shape design

Jennifer I. Brand
Professor Emeritus
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
245N Scott Engineering Center
Office: 402-472-9320
jbrand@unl.edu
Research Areas
Supercritical processing, solid-state radiation detetectors, and polymers for harsh environments

Eric Carnes
Associate Professor
Department of Environmental, Agricultural, and Occupational Health
984388 Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE 68198
eric.carnes@unmc.edu
Research Areas
Combining inorganic nanomaterials with biological materials and living cells to create novel solutions to problems in public health, agriculture, and the environment

Martin Centurion
Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor
Physics and Astronomy
079 Jorgensen Hall
Office: 402-472-5810
martin.centurion@unl.edu
Centurion's webpage
Research Areas
Molecular imaging, ultrafast molecular dynamics, ultrafast electron diffraction
Google Scholar Page
Barry Cheung
Associate Professor
Chemistry
514A Hamilton Hall
Office: 402-472-5172
ccheung2@unl.edu
Cheung's webpage
Research Areas
Design and synthesis of novel nanomaterials, study of biological macromolecules at the nanoscale, development of new analytical devices via biomimetical approach with nanomaterials
ResearcherID

Ozan N. Ciftci
Assistant Professor
Food Science and Technology
264 Food Innovation Center
1901 North 21st St.
Office: 402-472-5686
ciftci@unl.edu
Ciftci Lab
Research Areas
Lipid particle formation, green extraction of bioactive lipids

Christopher Cornelius
Adjunct Faculty
College of Engineering
Office: 402-472-2750
Research Areas
Fundamental material interrelationships between structure, property, and function of natural and synthetic polymers, ionomers, hybrid organic-inorganic materials, and sol-gel glasses; transport of molecule, ion, and electrons in complex structures and interfaces; structured and functional surfaces and materials

Bai Cui
Assistant Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
W331 Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-5740
bcui3@unl.edu
Cui's webpage
Research Areas
Metals, ceramics, nuclear materials, high-temperature materials, corrosion, electron microscopy
Google scholar page
ResearcherID
Joshua Darr
Assistant Professor
Chemistry - UNO
DSC 337, 6001 Dodge St.
Omaha, Nebraska 68182
Phone: (402) 554-2653
jdarr@unomaha.edu
Darr's webpage
Research Areas
Scanning electron microscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, fluorescence spectroscopy, aerosol particles

Scott Darveau
Professor and Chair
Chemistry–UNK
417 Bruner Hall, 905 W. 25th St.
Kearney, Nebraska 66849-1150
Office: 308-865-8491
darveausa@unk.edu
Darveau's webpage
Research Areas
Development and characterization of novel thin films for use in solar cells, Laser spectroscopy/instrument development

Dennis Diestler
Professor Emeritus
Department of Agronomy & Horticulture
Home office: 402-466-0687
ddiestler1@unl.edu
Research Areas
Stability of multi-valent ligand-receptor complexes, dynamical coupling of electronic and nuclear motions in molecules

Shudipto Konika Dishari
Assistant Professor
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
214 Othmer Hall
Office: 402-472-2750
sdishari2@unl.edu
Dishari's webpage
Research Areas
Polymers, conducting oligo/polymers, membranes, thin films, energy, fuel cells, biomaterials, biosensors, bioseparation, fluorescence based techniques

Peter Dowben
Charles Bessey Professor
Physics & Astronomy
310L Jorgensen Hall
Office: 402-472-9838
pdowben1@unl.edu
Dowben's webpage
Research Areas
Changes in electronic (band) structure across electronic phase transitions in reduced dimensionality
Google scholar page

Stephen Ducharme
Professor
Physics & Astronomy
310F Jorgensen Hall
Office: 402-472-8590
Lab: 402-472-8644
sducharme1@unl.edu
Ducharme's website
Research Areas
Molecular ferroelectrics from fundamental studies, to materials discovery, to applications
Google scholar page
ResearcherID

Patrick Dussault
Charles Bessey Professor
Chemistry
809B Hamilton Hall
Office: 402-472-6951
Lab: 402-472-2781
pdussault1@unl.edu
Dussault's webpage
Research Areas
Organic synthesis (natural products as well as functionalized materials), new oxidation methods, chemistry of peroxide explosives, chemical biology
Google scholar page

Diganta Dutta
Assistant Professor
Physics/Mechanical Engineering–UNK
219 Bruner Hall / 2401 11th Avenue
Kearney, NE 68849
Office: 308-865-8910
duttad2@unk.edu
Dutta's webpage
Research Areas
Nano scale characterization of biological cells and tissues, microfluidics

Yuris Dzenis
R. Vernon McBroom Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
W315 Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-0713
ydzenis@unl.edu
Dzenis's webpage
Research Areas
Advanced functional nanomaterials and nanomanufacturing

Craig Eckhardt
Professor
Chemistry
524 Hamilton Hall
Office: 402-472-2734
ceckhardt1@unl.edu
Eckhardt's webpage
Research Areas
Organic materials and organic solid-state chemistry

Jongwan Eun
Assistant Professor
Civil Engineering
203C Peter Kiewit Institute, 1110 S. 67th St.
Omaha, Nebraska 68182-0176
Office: 402-552-3522
jeun2@unl.edu
Research Areas
Geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering, multiphase mass transport through prorous and nonporous medium, unsaturated behavior of geomaterials, advanced application of sensing technics for geosystem, sustainable geotechnics

Christopher Exstrom
Professor
Department of Chemistry–UNK
417 Bruner Hall, 905 W. 25th St.
Kearney, Nebraska 66849-1150
Office: 308-865-8565
exstromc@unk.edu
Exstrom's webpage
Research Areas
Nanocrystalline semiconductor and noble metal materials, photovoltaic materials, biosensor nanostructures

Lucia Fernandez-Ballester
Assistant Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
W332 Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-3994
Fax: 402-472-8292
lucia.fernandez@unl.edu
Fernandez-Ballester's webpage
Research Areas
Conjugated polymers, 3D printing, flow-induced crystallization, nucleation control, biopolymers

Eva Franke-Schubert
Associate Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
209N WSEC
Office: 402-472-1697
evaschub@engr.unl.edu
Franke-Schubert's webpage
Research Areas
Ion beam processing and nanostructured thin film fabrication for optical, electromechanical, and magnetic device applications

Timothy Gay
Willa Cather Professor
Physics & Astronomy
073 Jorgensen Hall
Office: 402-472-2773
tgay@unl.edu
Gay's website
Research Areas
Polarized electron scattering from atoms and molecules, the understanding of chiral and dichroic effects in such targets, the development of novel sources of polarized electrons and electron polarimeters, and investigations of the fundamental nature of the electron

Mohammad Ghashami
Assistant Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
W317 Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-3329
mghashami2@unl.edu
Research Areas
Micro/nanoscale energy transfer; near-field thermal radiation; evergy conversion and recycling processes; thermophotovoltaics, thermoelectrics, and thermionics; engineering applications of nanoscale energy transport

Alexei Gruverman
Charles Bessey Professor
Physics & Astronomy
081 Jorgensen Hall
Office: 402-472-4788
Lab: 402-472-8358
agruverman2@unl.edu
Gruverman's webpage
Research Areas
Fundamental studies of nanoscale physical phenomena in electronic and polar materials by means of scanning probe microscopy (SPM) techniques
H

David Hage
James Hewett University Professor of Chemistry
Chemistry
704 Hamilton Hall
Office: 402-472-2744
dhage1@unl.edu
Hage Research Group
Research Areas
The design and use of affinity-based separations in LC and miniaturized systems for clinical and pharmaceutical analysis

Hamzeh F. Haghshenas
Research Assistant Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
362R Prem S. Paul Research Center at Whittier School
2200 Vine St. P.O. Box 830851
Lincoln, NE 68583-0851
Office: 402-472-7857
Research Areas
Chemo-physical and multi-cale characterization of construction materials, mechanistic analysis and design of pavements, infrastructure sustainability
hhaghshenasfatmeh2@unl.edu
Haghshenas’ webpage

Gerard Harbison
Professor Emeritus
Chemistry
723 Hamilton Hall
Office: 402-472-9346
gharbison1@unl.edu
Harbison's webpage
Research Areas
Computational chemistry, NMR spectroscopy

Xia Hong
Associate Professor
Physics & Astronomy
310J Jorgensen Hall
Office: 402-472-2779
xhong2@unl.edu
Hong's website
Research Areas
Epitaxial growth and fabrication of novel nanostructures and low dimensional systems, creating and imaging their local phase structures, and studying how their properties evolve with system dimensions
Google scholar page
ResearcherID

Jiong Hu
Associate Professor
Geotechnical and Materials Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering
204C Peter Kiewit Institute
1110 67th Street
Omaha, NE 68182-0178
402-554-4106
jhu5@unl.edu
Hu's website
Research Areas
Eco-efficient infrastructure materials, innovative infrastructure materials development, and advanced materials characterization

Natale "Ned" Ianno
Milton E. Mohr Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
207N Scott Engineering Center
Office: 402-472-1965
nianno@unl.edu
Ianno's webpage
Research Areas
Thin film deposition including sputtering and PECVD, high density plasma processing, nanoscale processing, In-situ optical process monitroing

Nicole M. Iverson
Assistant Professor
Biological Systems Engineering
233 Chase Hall
Office: 402-472-0884
Cell: 732-648-3319
iverson@unl.edu
Iverson's webpage
Research Areas
Carbon nanotubes, biological sensors, reactive oxygen and nitrogen species
Google scholar page
Sitaram Jaswal
Professor Emeritus
Physics & Astronomy
310A Jorgensen Hall
Office: 402-472-2787
sjaswal1@unl.edu
Jaswal's webpage
Research Areas
Interfaces and tunnel junctions composed of multiferroic components

Alexey V. Krasnoslobodtsev
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics
University of Nebraska-Omaha
119 Durham Science Center
Omaha, NE 68182
Office: 402-554-3723
akrasnos@unomaha.edu
Research Areas
Single molecule studies of molecular mechanisms of protein misfolding phenomenon and protein-protein interactions; combination of nanoimaging and nanomanipulation with spectroscopic techniques and development of hybrid biosensing nano-platforms with high sensitivity

Srivatsan Kidambi
Assistant Professor
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
207 Othmer Hall
Office: 402-472-4443
skidambi2@unl.edu
Kidambi's webpage
Kidambi's lab site
Research Areas
Biological arrays, biological tissue models, biomaterials, nanofabrication, self-assembled monolayers, thin films, thin film preparation and characterization

Forrest Kievit
Associate Professor
Biological Systems Engineering
228 L.W. Chase Hall
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68583-0726
Office: 402-472-2175
fkievit2@unl.edu
Kievit Lab website
Kievit's CV
Research Areas
Biomedical Engineering, Nanomedicine, Nanotheranostics

Seunghee Kim
Associate Professor
Civil Engineering
204C Peter Kiewit Institute
1110 S. 67th St.
Omaha, NE 68182
Office: 402-554-3547
seunghee.kim@unl.edu
Kim's website
Kim's CV
Research Areas
CO2 Geologic Storage; Underground Construction and Storage; Energy Efficiency and Conservation; Sustainability and Energy-Geotechnology

Alexey Kovalev
Assistant Professor
Physics & Astronomy
310K Jorgensen Hall
Office: 402-472-2880
alexey.kovalev@unl.edu
Kovalev's website
Research Areas
Theoretical spintronics, comprising various classical and quantum phenomena related to the spin degree of freedom
Google scholar page
ResearcherID
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Rebecca Lai
Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor
Chemistry
651 Hamilton Hall
Office: 402-472-5340
Lab: 402-472-2681
rlai2@unl.edu
Lai's webpage
Research Areas
Fundamental and applied aspects of biosensor research

Marjorie Langell
Professor Emeritus
Chemistry
629 Hamilton Hall
Office: 402-472-2702
Lab: 402-472-2618
mlangell1@unl.edu
Langell's webpage
Research Areas
Surface properties of transition metal oxides (TMOs) and TMO nanoparticle systems

Abdelghani Laraoui
Assistant Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
W312 Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-7680
alaraoui2@unl.edu
Laraoui's webpage
Google Scholar page
ResearchGate
Research Areas
Quantum sensing, quantum computing, and defect discovery and spectroscopy in 2D materials and wide bandgap semiconductors

Gustavo Larsen
Professor
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
207 Othmer Hall
Office: 402-472-9805
glarsen1@unl.edu
Larsen's webpage
Research Areas
Catalysis, adsorption, materials design, nanostructured materials for biomedical applications

Hui Li
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
508 Hamilton Hall
Office: 402-472-5232
hli4@unl.edu
Li's website
Research Areas
Structural biology, metalloprotein redox chemistry, histidine pKa, intermolecular interaction, continuum solvation model

Yusong Li
Associate Professor
Civil Engineering
N114 SEC-LINK
Office: 402-472-5972
yli7@unl.edu
Li's webpage
Research Areas
Fate and transport of contaminants, environmental implication of nanotechnology, ground water remediation, numerical simulation at pore and continuum scales
Sy-Hwang Liou
Professor
Physics & Astronomy
085 Jorgensen Hall
Office: 402-472-2405
sliou@unl.edu
Liou's website
Research Areas
Magnetic sensors, magnetic force microscopy, microcantilever torgue magnetometer, nanofabrications

Yongfeng Lu
Lott Distinguished Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
E430P Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-8323
ylu2@unl.edu
Lu's website
Research Areas
Micro- and nanoscale laser material processing and characterization
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Eric Markvicka
Assistant Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
W335 Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-1617
eric.markvicka@unl.edu
Smart Materials & Robotics Lab
Research Areas
Stretchable electronics, soft materials, multifunctional composites, robotics

Wai Ning Mei
Milo Bail Professor
Physics - UNO
60th & Dodge
Omaha, NE 68182-0266
Office: 402-554-3729
physmei@unomaha.edu
Research Areas
Theoretical studies of the electronic and structural properties of the molecular solids, transition and rare-earth metals, nanostructurally designed materials, ferroelectric and multiferroic materials

Keegan Moore
Assistant Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
W336 Nebraska Hall
402-472-5969
kmoore@unl.edu
Google Scholar
Moore Dynamics and Analytics Laboratory (MoDAL)
Research Areas
Theoretical and experimental nonlinear dynamics and vibrations, system identification and model updating, data-driven modeling and identification, advanced signal processing (empirical mode decomposition and methods), non-reciprocal acoustics and nonlinear energy guiding, aeroelasticity and data-driven flutter analysis.

Stephen Morin
Assistant Professor
Chemistry
409C Hamilton Hall
402-472-4608
smorin2@unl.edu
Morin Research Group
Research Areas
The discovery of new methods to control (e.g., synthesize, assemble, manipulate, organize, etc.) functional, inorganic materials with soft polymers. Systems include: mechano-chemical surfaces and soft micro-reactors.

Fereydoon Namavar
Professor Emeritus and Director of the Nano-Biotechnology Laboratory
Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation
985360 Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE 68198-1080
Office: 402-559-8558
fnamavar@unmc.edu
UNMC faculty webpage
Research Areas
Understanding how cells attach to a nanostructured surface, development of novel concepts and technologies to maximize the lifetime of orthopaedic implants and minimize the possibility of wear and revision surgery through the development of novel nanostructure materials

Mehrdad Negahban
Professor and Graduate Chair
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
W311 Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-2397
mnegahban1@unl.edu
Negahban's webpage
Research Areas
Theoretical, computational, and experimental studies to characterize large deformation thermo-mechanical response of materials; simulation of the effects of crystallization on polymers; simulation of the manufacturing of thin film extruded polymers; 3D printing with stereo lithography

Siamak Nejati
Assistant Professor
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
207i Othmer Hall
Office: 402-472-3232
snejati2@unl.edu
Nejati's webpage
Lab site
Research Areas
Chemical vapor deposition, chemical synthesis of polymers, carbon nanomaterials and nanostructures, conducting and semiconducting polymers, interfaces in solids, self-assembly and self organization processes, thin films, separation processes

Hector Palencia
Associate Professor
Chemistry–UNK
209B Bruner Hall, 905 W. 25th St.
Kearney, Nebraska 66849-1150
Office: 308-865-8479
palenciah2@unk.edu
Palencia's webpage
Research Areas
Organocatalysis, biofuels/biomass, organometallic chemistry, synthetic methodology

Angela Pannier
Professor and Swarts Family Chair in Biological Systems Engineering
Biological Systems Engineering
231 Chase Hall
Office: 402-472-0896
Lab: 402-472-0899
apannier2@unl.edu
Pannier's website
Research Areas
Nonviral gene delivery, tissue engineering, and protein-cell-biomaterial interactions
Google scholar page

Lawrence Parkhurst
Hewett University Professor
Chemistry
737 Hamilton Hall
Office: 402-472-3316
Lab: 402-472-1430
lparkhurst1@unl.edu
Parkhurst's webpage
Research Areas
Interactions between DNA, RNA and proteins, particularly the step-wise structural and energetic changes associated with these binding events

Andrzej Rajca
Charles Bessey Professor
Chemistry
818D Hamilton Hall
Office: 402-472-9196
arajca1@unl.edu
Rajca's website
Research Areas
Organic and biomaterials chemistry, specifically the rational design and synthesis of new materials (molecules and polymers) with magnetic and optical properties

Kamlakar Rajurkar
College of Engineering Distinguished Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
W303 Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-0526
krajurkar1@unl.edu
Rajurkar's webpage
Research Areas
Modeling and analysis, control of traditional and nontraditional manufacturing processes

Prahalada Rao
Assistant Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
NH East 303E
Office: 402-472-3458
rao@unl.edu
Rao's webpage
Research Areas
Monitoring of ultraprecision nanomanufacturing and additive manufacturing (AM) processes, sensor-based predictive analytics and quality monitoring of data rich complex systems, surface morphology and dimensional integrity monitoring

Jody Redepenning
Professor and Acting Chair
Chemistry
535 Hamilton Hall
Office: 402-472-3533
jredepen@unl.edu
Redepenning's webpage
Research Areas
Electrochemistry, particularly the use of electrochemistry to produce novel materials

Brian Robertson
Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
342W Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-2375
brobertson@unl.edu
Robertson's webpage
Research Areas
Magnetic and electronic thin films, nanoscale wires and devices, electron probe-based characterization and fabrication for materials research and processing

Arman Roohi
Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
256 Avery Hall
402-472-2401
aroohi@unl.edu
Roohi's Website
Google Scholar
LinkedIn
Research Areas
Neuromorphic computing, deep learning hardware acceleration, deep learning security, reconfigurable and adaptive computer architectures, beyond CMOS computing (emphasis on spintronics).

Sangjin Ryu
Assistant Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
W307 Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-4313
sangjin.ryu@unl.edu or sryu2@unl.edu
Ryu's webpage
Research Areas
Microscale fluid dynamics, interfacial fluid dynamics, biophysics, cell mechanics, microfluidics, atomic force microscopy

Renat Sabirianov
Professor and Chair
Physics Department - UNO
125 Durham Science Center, 60th & Dodge
Omaha, NE 68182-0266
Office: 402-554-3720
rsabirianov@mail.unomaha.edu
Research Areas
Heterostructures of nanoscale size, self-organized magnetic nanostructures, magnetic thin films, surface properties of TM oxides, molecular electronics, magnetic semiconductors

Ravi Saraf
Lowell E. and Betty Anderson Distinguished Professor
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
212 Othmer Hall
Office: 402-472-8284
rsaraf2@unl.edu
Saraf's webpage
Research Areas
Electronic skin, electronics on bacterium, DNA and protein chip, dance of ions at the electrode, nanomaterials on DNA and polymer scaffold

Mathias Schubert
Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
242N Scott Engineering Center
Office: 402-472-3771
schubert@engr.unl.edu
Schubert's webpage
Research Areas
Characterization of linear and non-linear optical properties of new materials, their heterostructures as well as artificial nanostructures
Google scholar page

Michael Sealy
Assistant Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
W306 Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-1659
sealy@unl.edu
Sealy's webpage
Research Areas
Laser-based processing, hybrid additive manufacturing, degradable medical devices, surface integrity, corrosion, fatigue, sustainable manufacturing, process signatures in manufacturing
Google scholar page

Mahmoud Shakouri
Assistant Professor
Industrial Technology at UNK
University of Nebraska-Kearney
132F Otto Olsen
2508 12 Ave.
Kearney, NE 68849
Office: 308-865-8688
shakourim2@unk.edu
Research Areas
Concrete Durability, Sustainable Cementitious Materials, Corrosion
Cement & Concrete Research Lab
LinkedIn Page
ResearchGate
Google Scholar

Jeff Shield
Professor and Chair
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
W339 Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-2378
jshield2@unl.edu
Shield's webpage
Research Areas
Rapid solidification processing, nanostructured functional materials, high energy permanent magnets, interfacial effects in exchange spring and exchange bias systems

Alexander Sinitskii
Assistant Professor
Chemistry
525A Hamilton Hall
Office: 402-472-3543
asinitskiy2@unl.edu
Sinitskii's website
Research Areas
Atomically precise graphene nanoribbons (GNRs), three-dimensional graphene nanostructures, graphene-based sensors
Google scholar page

Robert Smith
Professor
Chemistry - UNO
60th & Dodge, DSC 366A
Omaha, Nebraska 68182-0109
Office: 402-554-3592
robertsmith@unomaha.edu
Smith's webpage
Research Areas
Investigating new high-dielectric, ferroelectric, and related materials through the use of reliable and efficient computer simulations

Rodney Soukup
Henson Professor Emeritus
Electrical & Computer Engineering
212N Scott Engineering Center
Office: 402-472-3771
rsoukup1@unl.edu
Soukup's webpage
Research Areas
Thin film semiconductors for solar cells and other wide bandgap semiconductor materials (hollow cathode deposition technique), research on non-vacuum deposition of thin semiconducting films

Robert Streubel
Assistant Professor
Physics & Astronomy
301C Jorgensen Hall
Office: 402-472-6933
streubel@unl.edu
Streubel's Lab
Google Scholar
Research Areas
Facilitating and advancing nanofabrication, x-rays, electron and scanning probe techniques

Eli Sutter
Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
W348 Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-2465
esutter@unl.edu
Sutter's webpage
Research Areas
Transmission electron microscopy,
2-dimensional materials, nanostructures

Peter Sutter
Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
SLNK 216N
Office: 402-472-6849
psutter@unl.edu
Sutter's webpage
Research Areas
2D materials, nanomaterials, energy conversion & energy efficiency, advanced methods development

James Takacs
Charles Mach University Professor
Chemistry
807B / 551 Hamilton Hall
Office: 402-472-3634
jtakacs1@unl.edu
Takacs's webpage
Research Areas
Asymmetric catalysis, self-assembly, combinatorial catalysis, metal-catalyzed cyclizations, synthetic methods development, natural product total synthesis

Li Tan
Associate Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
W334 Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-4018
ltan4@unl.edu
Tan's webpage
Research Areas
Material design, self-assembly, and nanomanufacturing; mechanics of nanomaterials and nanostructures

Evgeny Tsymbal
Director (Materials Research Science and Engineering Center) and George Holmes University Distinguished Professor
Physics & Astronomy
310B Jorgensen Hall
Office: 402-472-2586
tsymbal@unl.edu
Tsymbal's webpage
Research Areas
Fundamental understanding and the prediction of new functional properties of nanoscale magnetic and ferroelectric materials and structures relevant to device applications such as sensors, memories and storage
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Joseph Turner
Robert W. Brightfelt Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
W354 Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-8856
jturner3@unl.edu
Turner's webpage
Research Areas
Experimental ultrasonics, nanoindentation, atomic force microscopy, elastic wave propagation

Hendrik Viljoen
Distinguished Professor and Chair
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
211 Othmer Hall
Office: 402-472-9318
hviljoen1@unl.edu
Viljoen's webpage
Research Areas
Development of new methods for the synthesis and processing of materials, analysis of complex engineering systems with the aid of models and simulation, application of chemical reaction engineering principles to interdisciplinary problems

Jian Wang
Associate Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
W342.B Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-1514
jianwang@unl.edu
Wang's webpage
Research Areas
Computer simulation and modeling, defects in solids, interfaces in solids, in-situ mechanical testing in TEM and SEM, magnesium, multilayered structures, nanomechanics, plastic deformation mechanisms of nanostructured materials, solid-solid phase transformation
Google scholar page
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Yanan (Laura) Wang
Assistant Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
E430N Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-5199
yanan.wang@unl.edu
Google Scholar
Research Areas
Quantum Materials, Two-Dimensional Materials, Wide-Bandgap Materials; Integrated Photonics and Phononics; Nano-/Microelectromechanical
Systems (NEMS/MEMS); Photophysics and Optical Spectroscopy

John A. Woollam
George Holmes Distinguished Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
240N Scott Engineering Center
Office: 402-472-7501
jwoollam@unl.edu
Woollam's webpage
J.A. Woollam Co. Ellipsometry Solutions
Research Areas
Optical, electrical, and microstructural studies of solids, films, interfacial effects and environmental effects on materials; optical coatings, protective coatings, biomaterials and their interfaces

Xiaoshan Xu
Assistant Professor
Physics & Astronomy
310M Jorgensen Hall
Office: 402-472-6134
xiaoshan.xu@unl.edu
Xu's website
Research Areas
Complex oxide thin films and their interfaces to the organic semiconductors
Google scholar page
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Jiashi Yang
Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
317.5 Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-0712
jyang1@unl.edu
Yang's webpage
Research Areas
Frequency stability of piezoelectric crystal resonators

Yiqi Yang
Charles Bessey Professor
Textiles, Merchandising & Fashion Design and Biological Systems Engineering
221 Home Economics Building
Office: 402-472-5197
yyang2@unl.edu
Yang's webpage
Research Areas
Green materials including polymers and chemicals for textile, composite, and medical applications
Google scholar page

Ruiguo Yang
Assistant Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
W308 Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-3495
ryang6@unl.edu
Yang's webpage
Research Areas
Biophysics, Nanofibers, Nanomedicine, Cell mechanics, Atomic Force Microscopy
Xiao Cheng Zeng
Chancellor's University & Willa Cather Professor
Chemistry
536 Hamilton Hall
Office: 402-472-9894
xzeng1@unl.edu
Zeng's webpage
Research Areas
Computational and theoretical studies of liquids, solids, thin films, interfaces, nanotubes, and nano-clusters; computational nanotribology and modeling of atomic force microscopy
Google scholar page

Jian Zhang
Associate Professor
Chemistry
604D Hamilton Hall
Office: 402-472-2603
jzhang3@unl.edu
Zhang's webpage
Research Areas
Materials chemistry, inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, polymer chemistry, catalysis, photocatalysis
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Zhaoyan Zhang
Associate Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
350W Nebraska Hall
Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0526
Office: 402-472-4993
zhaoyan.zhang@unl.edu
Zhang's webpage
Research Areas
Laser material processing, blast wave absorbing structure, diesel engine emissions control