Faculty

The Materials Science and Engineering faculty shown below include professors, associate professors, and assistant professors with primary and joint appointments. To view additional faculty (courtesy, emeritus and visiting), select the "Find Faculty by Appointment" tab to filter results.
  • David L. Green

    Associate Professor
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    Our group focuses on the synthesis of well-defined nanoparticles, their dispersion into polymer solutions and melts, and their suspension rheology. With our fundamental studies, we seek to optimize processing to achieve a desirable microstructure in industrial suspensions, and to set a foundation for developing constitutive rheological models.

  • Patrick E. Hopkins

    Whitney Stone Professor of Engineering Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Professor, Materials Science and Engineering (Courtesy) Professor, Physics (Courtesy)
    Patrick E. Hopkins

    Patrick the Whitney Stone Professor in Engineering at the University of Virginia, with a primary appointment in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and courtesy appointments in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Department of Physics, and the director of the ExSiTE Lab. 

  • James M. Howe

    James M. Howe's research focuses on: i) the application of in-situ high-resolution and analytical transmission electron microscope techniques to study mechanisms of phase transformations and the structure and properties of interphase boundaries at the atomic level, and ii) the use of valence electron energy-loss spectroscopy (plasmons). 

  • Jon Ihlefeld

    Professor, Materials Science and Engineering Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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    Ihlefeld is a Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering Departments at the University of Virginia. He is the Deputy Vice-President for Ferroelectrics for the IEEE. His group studies the process-structure-property relations in ferroelectric, dielectric, and ion-conducting oxides. 

  • Robert E. Johnson

    Professor Emeritus
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    I study ion, electron, and photon interactions with surfaces of low-temperature condensed-gas solids and biomolecular solids and with atmospheric gases. The principal processes studied are the ejection of molecules from the surface, called desorption or sputtering, and atomic…
  • William Craig Johnson

    Professor Emeritus
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  • Robert G. Kelly

    Associate Chair for Operations AT&T Professor of Engineering Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Co-Director, Center for Electrochemical Science and Engineering
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    Robert G. Kelly has been conducting research on the corrosion of metals for the past 30 years.

  • Ji Ma

    Assistant Professor
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    Ji Ma's research explores using additive manufacturing to create materials with novel properties and incorporating these materials in designed geometry to produce functionally unique parts, focusing on the additive manufacturing of metallic alloys and control of solidification, porosity, residual stress, and micro-to-nano-scale microstructure.

  • Stephen J. McDonnell

    Assistant Professor
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    Stephen McDonnell’s current research interests are centered interfaces relevant to next generation nanoelectronics devices.

  • Elizabeth J. Opila

    Department Chair, Rolls Royce Commonwealth Professor of Engineering Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Director, Rolls Royce University Technology Center on Advanced Material Systems
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    Our research focuses on materials for use in extreme environments and can be applied to materials for use in aircraft engines, rocket engines, energy conversion technologies, and thermal protection systems.