Materials Council Representatives

All Georgia Tech faculty members who identify themselves as having materials-related research and education interests are welcome to participate as Members of the Materials Council. Currently, nearly 200 faculty fall into this category. We list below faculty members who serve as faculty representatives of the various academic units and GTRI. Members have an important responsibility to convey information back and forth between their academic units and the Council.

Faculty Representatives (listed by administrative unit): AE | BIO | BME | CHbE | CHEM | CE | COC | ECE | GTRI | MATH | ME | MSE | PHYSICS

Committee Members

Chair, Materials Council

David. L. McDowell
Regents' Professor
Carter N. Paden, Jr. Distinguished Chair in Metals Processing, G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering

Research Interests: Material deformation and damage, constitutive laws, and metals processing. WEBSITE: http://www.mse.gatech.edu/faculty-staff/faculty/david-mcdowell

Chair Publicity Committee

Hamid Garmestani ,
Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests:  Computational Design, Modeling, and Simulations Advanced Structural Materials Multi-scale Structural & Chemical Characterization

Chair Honors & Awards Committee

Naresh. N. Thadhani
Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests:  Synthesis and processing of nanocrystalline intermetallics with unique structural, energetic, magnetic, and thermoelectric properties; investigation of shock-induced chemical reactions in intermetallic, ceramic, and thermite systems; and high-strain-rate deformation and fracture of metals, ceramics, and composites for applications in energy absorption and target penetration.

Materials Science and Engineering
Gall K,  Professor Metallic and polymer biomaterials, mechanically active materials and nanometer scale materials and characterization

Garmestani H, Professor

Mechanical properties; Statistical approaches; Microstructure Sensitive Design

Gerhardt R, Professor

Electromagnetic Properties, Optical Properties, Electroceramics, Nanocomposites, Non-destructive Testing, Metallic Alloys, Conducting Polymers, Microstructure-Property Relationships
Jacob K, Professor Advanced Polymer Characterization Techniques; Biomedical Applications of Polymers; Functional Polymers and Systems; Modeling and Simulation; Polymer Synthesis and Characterization
Kumar S, Professor Advanced Polymer Characterization Techniques; Biomedical Applications of Polymers; Functional Polymers and Systems; Nano-structured Polymers and Nanocomposites; Polymer Processing (including micro- and nano-fabrication); Polymer Structure and Properties

Liu M, Professor & Co- Director for Center for Innovative Fuel Cell and Battery Technologies

Electroceramics; Ionic conductors; Thin films; New materials and novel structures for fuel cells, batteries, and sensors

Milam V,  Professor

Bio-inspired colloidal assembly for multifunctional drug delivery vehicles and colloidal-based sensing

Sandhage K, Professor

Biological/biochemical processing of inorganic materials and micro/nano-structures; Near net-shape reaction processing of ceramics & composites; High-temperature oxidation & corrosion

Snyder R L, Professor and Chair

Synthesis, structural and property characterization of nano and bio-enabled materials
Wang Y, Professor Polymer Structure and Properties
Wang Z L, Regents Professor & Director, Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology;
Director, Center for Nanostructure Characterization

Synthesis, characterization, manipulation and device fabrication of nanomaterials and smart materials for sensors, optoelectronics and biomedical science

Wong C P, Regents' Professor

Polymers and Nano Science Chemistry; Novel Electronic  Materials for Packing and Interconnects

Aerospace Engineering

Kardomateas G, Professor

Fracture and fatigue of composites and metals

Hanagud S, Professor

Smart materials, structural integrity

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Tummala R, Professor; Joseph M. Pettit Chair in Electronics Packaging; Director, NSF Packaging Research Center; GRA Eminent Scholar

Microsystems systems packaging, Electronic materials, Display technologies, Magnetic storage

Kippelen B, Professor, Optics and Photonics Group

Organic light-emitting devices for displays and lighting, Flexible organic photovoltaic cells for power generation, Low-cost organic electronics for RFID, Real-time holography and signal processing, Ultra-fast photonics, Structure-property relationships in photonic and electronic materials

Rohatgi A, Regents' Professor; Georgia Power Distinguished Chair; Director, University Center of Excellence for Phot

Electronic and photonic materials, semiconductor growth and characterization, defects in semiconductors, high efficiency solar cells

Mechanical Engineering

Bassiri-Gharb N, Assistant Professor

Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) and Mechanics of Materials; Ferroelectric thin films and nanostructures: synthesis and characterization; Piezoelectric NEMS/MEMS sensors and actuators

Das S, Associate Professor

 Advanced manufacturing and materials processing of metallic, polymeric, ceramic, and composite materials for applications in life sciences, propulsion, and energy

Fedorov A, Assistant Professor

Multiscale thermofluids, thermal radiation, absorption, and catalysis

Graham S, Associate Professor

Microelectromechanical Systems; Microscale heat transfer, thermophysical properties, nanostructured materials, nanodevices, and device reliability

Hesketh P, Professor

Microfabrication, micromachining, sensors, acturators, biosensors, and microfluids

Neu R W, Professor

Mechanics of Materials and Tribology; Fatigue, deformation and degradation of materials

Zhou M, Professor

Mechanics of Materials and Manufacturing; Micro- and nanoscale behavior, continuum and molecular dynamics modeling, experimental/computational mechanics, dynamic behavior, and fracture

Zhu T, Assistant Professor

Mechanics of Materials; Mechanical behavior of solids and thin films, nanomechanics of defect in crystals, coupled mechano-chemical phenomena, fracture in ferroelectric materials, and multiscale modeling

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Haj Ali R, Associate Professor

Computational mechanics, nonlinear structural analysis, damage mechanics, constitutive models, micromechanics of composite materials, fracture mechanics, nonlinear finite elements, and artificial neural networks in engineering applications

Jacobs L J, Associate Dean and Professor

Quantitative nondestructive evaluation of civil engineering materials; wave propagation in solids, emphasizing guided waves, nonlinear methods and heterogeneous materials; optical techniques for the generation and detection of ultrasonic waves; signal processing techniques applied to nondestructive evaluation; development of acoustic sensors for condition monitoring of structural components; and structural mechanics

Kurtis K, Associate Professor

Microstructure and durability of cement-based materials; development of novel methods for characterization of infrastructure materials, high performance concrete, fiber-cement composites, applications of nondestructive evaluation methods to cement-based materials

Yavari A, Assistant Professor

Solid mechanics in small scales, ferroelectrics, magnetoelastic and electroealstic interactions, lattice theories of solids, geometric continuum mechanics, configurational forces, and fractal fracture mechanics

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Gallivan M, Assistant Professor

Experimental and computational materials science, and process systems  engineering

Hess D, Thomas C. DeLoach, Jr. Chair

Thin film science and technology, microelectronics processing and electronic materials

Biomedical Engineering

Bao G, Robert A. Milton Chair in Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering Distinguished Professor

Biomolecular Engineering, Bionanotechnology, Molecular Imaging, Molecular Biomechanics

Garcia A, Associate  Professor

Cellular and tissue engineering for connective tissue applications, Cell adhesion and extracellular matrices, Substrate modulation of protein adsorption and cellular function, Musculoskeletal biomaterials and biomechanics, Applications of bioactive materials in hard and soft tissue reconstruction and drug delivery, Momentum and mass transport phenomena associated with biomaterials

Nerem R M, Parker H. Petit Distinguished Chair for Engineering in Medicine Institute Professor, Director of the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience

Biofluid mechanics, Cardiovascular devices, Cellular biomechanics, Mammalian cell culture engineering, Vascular biology, Atherosclerosis

Zhu C, Regents' Professor
Associate Chair for International Programs

Biomechanics of cell adhesion and signaling molecules of the immune system and the vascular systems

Biology

Choi J, Associate Professor

Plant molecular genetics, protein kinases and cell surface proteins in plant development and regeneration

Weissburg M, Associate Professor

Chemical ecology

Chemistry and Biochemistry

Bredas J, Professor and Chair in Molecular Design
Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar

Structural, electronic,  optical and interfacial properties of novel organic (nano) materials

Hernandez R, Associate Professor

Nonstationary Stochastic Dynamics, Polymerization Dynamics, Protein Folding
Marder S, Professor
Director of the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE)

Organic, Materials, Organometallic, and Optical Science; Two Photon Chemistry; Materials for Photonics and Displays

Perry J, Professor

Physical, Polymer and Materials Chemistry; Optical Science

Sherrill C D, Professor

Fundamental Forces of Molecular Recognition; Bond-breaking Reactions, Diradicals, and Other Nondynamical Correlation Problems

Zhang J, Professor

Synthesis and characterization of magnetic metal oxide nanoparticles

Physics

Chou M Y, Chair and Professor

Hydrogen in Metals, Hydrogen on Metal and Semiconductor  Surfaces, Development of Theoretical Techniques, Quantum Monte-Carlo Study of Real Materials

First P, Associate Professor

Solid-state systems at atomic length scales

Gole J L, Professor

Physical phenomena at the interface of chemical and condensed matter physics and material science

Riedo E, Assistant Professor

Nano-confined Liquids, Nanotribology, NanoBioMechanics, Nano-patterning of chemical modified surfaces

Georgia Tech Research Institute

Harris M, Group Lead

Nanotechnology and Microelectronics

Nadler J, Research Engineer II

Nanotechnology and Microelectronics

Ready J, Senior Research Engineer

Nanotechnology and Microelectronics

College of Computing

Schwan K, Professor, Director, Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems (CERCS)

Information Security & Cryptography, Systems,
High-Performance Computing

Wolf M, Research
Scientist II

Computational Science & Engineering, Systems,
High-Performance Computing

Mathematics

Goldsztein G H, Assistant Professor

Mathematical modeling of heterogeneous materials