CNMS Staff Expertise
Division Office

Karren More
Division Director

Elizabeth Lee
Division Administrative Assistant

Bradley Lokitz
User Program Director

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User Program Coordinator

Rama Vasudevan
Data and Analytics Coordinator

Liam Collins
Postdoctoral Coordinator
Operations/Support

Kevin Harman
Operations Manager

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Operations Support

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Health and Safety Professional

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Lab Waste Services

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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

Joy Chao
Quantum Materials, HR-STEM, Cryo-EM

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

Jon Poplawsky
Atom Probe Tomography Research

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

Panchapakesan Ganesh
Group Leader (interim) - Wide range of electronic structure methods/codes, atomistic simulation methods, machine-learning methods, high performance and cloud computing

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

Eva Zarkadoula
classical MD codes, reactive FFs, machine-learning FF

Brianna Holder
Group Admin
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