CNMS Staff Expertise 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 Scott Retterer 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 Karren More Group Leader (interim) Lynda Amichi Electron tomography, automation, cryo-TEM, hydrogen fuel cells 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, image analysis 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 David Cullen STEM-EDS, Fuel Cells, Catalysts, Automation 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 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 Haoran Yu Analytical (S)TEM, Identical Location Electrochemistry, High-throughput Data Analysis Michael Zachman cryo-(P)FIB, cryo-(S)TEM, Energy storage/conversion 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) Heather Corbin Group Admin 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 Heather Corbin Group Admin 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. Kyungnam Kang 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 classical MD codes, LAMMPS, coarse-grained and atomistic modeling of soft matter CSED 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 High performance computing, Nwchem, DFTB+, RMGDFT, Fortran, Python, C/C++ CSED CSED Paul Kent First principles electronic structure including DFT and many-body theory. Quantum Monte Carlo and QMCPACK. High performance computing. CSED Rajeev Kumar NTI cluster, LAMMPS, SCFT Liangbo Liang DFT-codes, wannier90, GW, Raman Thomas Maier Quantum many-body theory, (cluster) dynamical mean-field theory, random phase approximation, high-performance computing CSED Brianna Holder Group Administrative Assistant Data NanoAnalytics Group Rama Vasudevan Group Leader - 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