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

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

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.

Wei (Warren) 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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gerard Harbison
Professor Emeritus
Chemistry
723 Hamilton Hall
Office: 402-472-9346
gharbison1@unl.edu
Harbison's webpage

Research Areas
Computational chemistry, NMR spectroscopy

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

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

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

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
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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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Timothy Reece
Assistant Professor
Physics and Physical Science–UNK
218 Bruner Hall, 905 W. 25th St.
Kearney, Nebraska 66849-1150
Office: 308-865-8280
reecetj@unk.edu
Reece’s webpage

Research Areas
Langmuir-Blodgett films and ferroelectric polymers

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).

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

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

David Sellmyer
George Holmes University Distinguished Professor
Physics & Astronomy
855 N 16th Street, 095 Jorgensen Hall
Office: 402-472-2407 or 0137
dsellmyer@unl.edu
Sellmyer's website

Research Areas
Quantum and spin phenomena in nanomagnetic structures

Preferred journals list
Google scholar page
Digital Commons page

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

Ralph Skomski
Research Full Professor
Physics & Astronomy
089 Jorgensen Hall
Office: 402-472-0180
rskomski2@unl.edu or rskomski@nebrr.com
Sellmyer Group Lab

Research Areas
Magnetic nanostructures, time-dependent magnetization processes (magnetic viscosity and fast processes), the spin structure of half-metallic ferromagnets as well as topics such as RKKY interactions between nanomagnets embedded in a nonmagnetic metallic matrix

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

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

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

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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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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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

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

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