
Materials science and engineering faculty
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Creating materials for sustainable technologies and products
ASU’s materials science and engineering faculty are developing new materials with properties capable of combating critical issues like climate change.
James Adams
President’s Professor
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Adams’ areas of expertise include computational materials, materials toxicity and autism research.
Terry Alford
Professor
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Alford’s teaching interests include X-ray and electron diffraction, introduction to physical materials science and laboratory, structure and properties of materials and advanced materials issues in semiconductor processing.
Kumar Ankit
Associate Professor
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Ankit’s group specializes in the development and application of mesoscopic modeling approaches and their integration with continuum approaches for fundamental and applied research in microstructure science and engineering.
Hamed Arami
Assistant Professor
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Arami’s research is highly collaborative and links different disciplines including bioengineering, nanotechnology, electrical engineering, imaging and neuroscience.
Candace Chan
Professor
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Chan’s research group works on synthesis and evaluation of engineered nanomaterials to address critical issues in lithium batteries, electrochemical energy conversion and storage, photocatalysis and water treatment.
Peter Crozier
Professor
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Crozier has 20 years of experience in developing and applying the technique of advanced transmission electron microscopy to problems in catalytic materials and oxide electrolytes.
Sandwip Dey
Professor
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
A central theme in the Dey lab is on the understanding and control of the inter-relationships between processing-nanostructure-property-reliability. Education
Cody Friesen
Associate Professor
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Friesen is also the founder and CEO of Zero Mass Water, which makes SOURCE hydropanels.
Qijun Hong
Assistant Professor
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Hong’s research focuses on materials design and discovery based on density functional theory calculations, machine learning and automation.
Yang Jiao
Professor
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Jiao has developed analytical and computational models for complex materials which can deepen fundamental understanding of the nature of such materials.
Stephen Krause
Professor
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Krause teaches courses in engineering education, materials engineering, polymer science, materials characterization and engineering design. His research explores innovation engineering education and K-12 outreach.
Jian Li
Professor
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Li’s areas of expertise include design and synthesis of organic semiconductor materials, and the study of the structure and electrical and optical properties of organic and inorganic molecules.
Linqin Mu
Assistant Professor
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Mu is developing critical materials and high-energy devices for energy storage and understanding failure mechanisms in next-generation batteries.
Alexandra Navrotsky
Regents’ Professor
School of Molecular Sciences
Alexandra Navrotsky is a Regents Professor in the School of Molecular Sciences and the SEMTE and Affiliated Faculty Member of the SESE. She is also the Director of the Navrotsky Eyring Center for Materials of the Universe.
Karl Sieradzki
Professor
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
The Sieradzki research group examines fundamental issues in electrochemical surface science and fracture of solids.
Sandhya Susarla
Assistant Professor
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Susarla joined ASU in fall 2022. She has expertise in the area of electron microscopy where explores the structure-property relationship in quantum and semiconducting materials.
Seth Ariel Tongay
Professor
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Tongay’s research focuses on the materials discovery, synthesis and application of the next-generation quantum materials and their related technologies
Feng Yan
Associate Professor
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Yan has extensive experience in new materials design, thin-film solar cells, and nanoscale characterization of ferroelectric/multiferroics/photovoltaics using scanning probe microscopy.
Sui Yang
Assistant Professor
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Yang’s research focuses on nanophotonics, metamaterials/metasurfaces, 3D printing, nanoscience and self-assembly, which aim to bring science solutions to real-world applications
Farida Selim
Associate Professor
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Selim’s expertise includes semiconductor development and defect studies. She is part of two Energy Frontier Research Centers.