Division Office
Scott Retterer
Division Director
Elizabeth Lee
Division Administrative Assistant
Bradley Lokitz
User Program Director
Lisa Goins
User Program Coordinator
Rama Vasudevan
Data and Analytics Coordinator
Liam Collins
Postdoctoral Coordinator
Operations/Support
Kevin Harman
Operations Manager
Zachary Gosser
Operations Support
Philip Rasmussen
Health and Safety Professional
Tom Mooney
Lab Waste Services
Samantha Moore
Finance
Section Heads
Stephen Jesse
Nanomaterials Characterization Section
Zac Ward
Nanomaterials Characterization Section
Panchapakesan Ganesh
Theory & Computation Section
Theme Leaders
Kyle Kelley
Multiscale Dynamics
An-Ping Li
Heterogeneities in Quantum Materials
Rajeev Kumar
Harnessing Complex Macromolecular Confirmations
electron Microscopy and MicroAnalysis
Michael Zachman
Group Leader – cryo-(P)FIB, cryo-(S)TEM, Energy storage/conversion
Jeffery Baxter
Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy
Matthew Boebinger
in situ S/TEM, 4D-STEM, automated S/TEM
Albina Borisevich
Nion US200, TF Krios G4, local structure/phase transitions, oxide materials,
James Burns
Atom Probe Tomography and FIB Specimen Prep
Miaofang Chi
STEM, cryogenic cooling, Energy storage, quantum materials
Hsin-Yun (Joy) Chao
JEOL/Nion/FEI (S)TEM, Cryo & in-situ (S)TEM
Ondrej Dyck
Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy
Alexandre Foucher
Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy
Jordan Hachtel
Monochromated EELS; Nanophotonics; Quantum Materials; Vibrational Spectroscopy
Chanda Harris
Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy
Eric Hoglund
STEM-EELS Phonons Plasmons Excitons
Andy Lupini
STEM EELS Aberration-correction
Chris Nelson
Nion & Titan (S)TEM, In-situ Biasing, Data Analysis
Shawn Reeves
SEM, (S)TEM, Ultramicrotomy, and Specimen Prep
Elizaveta Tiukalova
STEM, Cryo-STEM, monochromated-EELS
Venkata (Bhuva) Bhuvaneswari Vukkum
Atom Probe Tomography
Alexis Williams
SEM, (S)TEM, Ultramicrotomy, and Specimen Prep
Steffi Woo
STEM, electron energy-loss spectroscopy, electron diffraction, 2D materials
Fehmi Yasin
Magnetic imaging, TEM, STEM, STEM-holography
Ana Robbins
Group Admin
Functional Atomic Force Microscopy Group
Neus Domingo
Group Leader -Advanced AFM (CRF, C-AFM, PFM, nanoIR, SNOMs)
Liam Collins
Advanced AFM (time resolved EFM & KPFM, PFM)
Anton Ievlev
AFM/FIB-ToF-SIMS
Kyle Kelley
Advanced AFM (PFM, C-AFM, nanoIR)
Sabine Neumayer
Advanced AFM (PFM, C-AFM, SMiMs)
Marti Checa Nualart
Advanced AFM (time resolved EFM & KPFM, PFM)
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Group
An-Ping Li
Group Leader – STM/STS, 4-probe STM, on-surface synthesis
Zheng Gai
STM/STS, MFM, on-surface synthesis, LEED, MOKE
Saban Hus
STM/STS, MFM, on-surface synthesis, LEED, MOKE
Hoyeon Jeon
Multi-probe STM, STM/STS
Jewook Park
milli-kelvin STM
Mykola Telychko
LT-STM/ncAFM, on-surface synthesis, Omicron AFM/Joule-Thomson STM
Huan Zhao
Scanning NV Microscope, quantum state transduction
Functional Hybrid Nanomaterials Group
Zac Ward
Group Leader
Ilia Ivanov
Raman, Uv-vis-NIR, ellipsometry, impedance spectroscopy, luminescence spectroscopy, FTIR spectroscopy, electrochemistry, quartz microbalance with dissipation for gravimetric and viscoelastic measurements of thin films.
Jong Keum
Small-angle scattering, X-ray diffraction, interfacial structure of confined nanomaterials and charge driven assembly of polymeric materials.
Ben Lawrie
Nanophotonics, Quantum Nanophotonics, Optical Spectroscopies
MSTD
Alex Puretzky
Optical Characterization and Laser Spectroscopy – Ultrafast dynamics, Micro-Raman, PL Lifetimes, SHG, PLO with in situ diagnostics, Laser Processing
Chris Rouleau
Pulsed Laser Deposition, RHEED, PPMS, X-ray diffraction, AFM
Ivan Vlassiouk
Large-Area 2D Materials Synthesis and Applications, h-BN, Graphene
Zili Wu
Catalytic flow reactor systems, in situ FTIR and Raman spectroscopy systems
CSD
Kai Xiao
Growth Mechanisms of 2D Materials, 2D Heterostructure Assembly and Properties
Rachel Ferguson
Group Admin
Macromolecular Nanomaterials Group
Gobet Advincula
Group Leader
Peter Bonnesen
Small Molecule Synthesis and Characterization, Deuteration and Stable-Isotope Labeling, NMR
Jihua Chen
electron microscopy
Panagiotis Christakopoulus
Polymer Synthesis and Characterization, Deuterated Polymers, Synthesis Under Continuous Flow
Brad Lokitz
FTIR, FTIR-ATR, Ellipsometry, Contact Angle Goiniometry
Hanyu Wang
Electrochemistry and neutron reflectometry
Yangyang Wang
Novocrontrol broadband dielectric/impedence spectrometer; ALV Goiniometer System; ZetaSizer, RSA-G2 DMA; TA Q2000 DSC; Lecia DM4500P Optical Microscope; Linkam Shear Cell/Imaging Station; TA Discovery Hybrid Rheometer (HR2); RheoSense m-VROC Viscometer
Yue Yuan
Biopolymer, Biodeuteration, Enzymatic Synthesis, Surface Functionalization, Nanofibers
Zhefei Yang
Polymer Synthesis, Surface Coating and Characterization
Honghai Zhang
Continuous flow reactors; Parr reactor; NMR; GCMS; Maldi-TOF
Rachel Ferguson
Group Admin
Nanofabrication Research Laboratory Group
Steven Randolph
Group Leader – Focused, electron- and ion-beam-induced surface chemistry
Dayrl Briggs
General Cleanroom, ALD, LPCVD, PECVD, ICP RIE, RTP
Pat Collier
Crossbar measurements, goniometer, droplet interface bilayer characterization
Sujoy Ghosh
Nanofabrication, Focus Ion Beam (FIB) Microscopy, Nanoscale electronic & Opto-electronic transport phenomena
Ivan Kravchenko
Raith Velion FIB, electron beam lithography, atomic force microscopy
Jack Lasseter
DC PECVD, E-Beam evaporator, DC Sputtering, Zeiss Merlin SEM, Phenom SEM
Nick Lavrik
Nanoscribe 2 photon lithography, Heidelberg laser mask writer, electron beam lithography, Renishaw Raman microscope, Wyko optical profilometer
Kevin Lester
Experienced cleanroom engineer specializing in equipment and facility installations, repairs and upgrades as well as 3d modeling and design
Bernadeta Srijanto
JEOL Ebeam Lithography, Suss contact aligner
Leslie Wilson
NanoDiamond CVD
Lacey Pack
Group Admin
Nanomaterials Theory Group
Eva Zarkadoula
Group Leader
Tom Berlijn
Theory, modeling, and simulation method development to study disordered/correlated materials
Jan-Michael Carrillo
classical MD codes, LAMMPS, coarse-grained and atomistic modeling of soft matter
Peter Doak, Computational Sciences and Engineering Division
classical MD codes, LAMMPS, coarse-grained and atomistic modeling of soft matter
Addis Fuhr
machine-learning packages, DFT-codes, high-performance and cloud computing
Jingsong Huang
Quantum chemical and many-body perturbation studies of interface, reaction, and chirality
Jacek Jakowski, Computational Sciences and Engineering Division
High performance computing, Nwchem, DFTB+, RMGDFT, Fortran, Python, C/C++
Paul Kent, Computational Sciences and Engineering Division
First principles electronic structure including DFT and many-body theory. Quantum Monte Carlo and QMCPACK. High performance computing.
Rajeev Kumar
NTI cluster, LAMMPS, SCFT
Liangbo Liang
DFT-codes, wannier90, GW, Raman
Thomas Maier, Computational Sciences and Engineering Division
Quantum many-body theory, (cluster) dynamical mean-field theory, random phase approximation, high-performance computing
Rama Vasudevan
Group Leader, Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Atomic Force Microscopy
Soumendu Bagchi
DFT, Multi-scale Modeling, Machine Learning, High Performance Computing
Sumner Harris
Autonomous synthesis, AI/ML, PLD with in situ diagnostics
Yongtao Liu
AI/ML, Automated and Autonomous AFM, Autonomous Experiments
Brianna Holder
Group Admin