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Engineering for a Sustainable Future

Engineering a better future will require the best work of researchers collaborating along the spectrum from the tiniest building blocks of materials through the complex workings of entire societal systems. We work at the micro- and nano-scale in fields like heat transfer, catalysis and 2-D materials to identify fundamental properties of matter. Our goal is not simply to conduct research, but to pursue research with positive global impact.

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Garrick Louis

Associate Professor, Systems and Information Engineering, Engineering & Society

Garrick Louis is Associate Professor of Systems and Information Engineering and Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia. He is director of the Small Infrastructure and Development Center and director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Department of Systems and Information Engineering.

Ji Ma

Assistant Professor

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.

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Lin Ma

Professor

4D Diagnostics & Thermal-Fluids
Development of novel diagnostics with 4D spatiotemporal resolution to study combustion, propulsion and fluid dynamics

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Anne McAlister

Assistant Professor, Academic General Faculty, Teaching Track, First Year Engineering Center

My research centers on the intersection of engineering identity, social identity, and social justice for students in higher education.

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Stephen J. McDonnell

Associate Professor

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

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Kathryn A. Neeley

Associate Professor

Neeley has been on faculty of the School of Engineering & Applied Science since 1979 and might be best described as a English major who found her calling in engineering. She is inspired by the potential of technology to promote human flourishing and by an understanding of engineering as a potentially ideal combination of practicality and vision.

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

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.

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Osman E. Ozbulut

Professor

Osman Ozbulut is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Virginia.

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Jesse Pappas

Assistant Professor

Jesse Pappas is Assistant Professor of Engineering and Society in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia (UVA). As one of the only social psychologists in the U.S. with a full-time appointment in engineering, he works at the intersection of individual experience and sociotechnical systems.

Rebecca Pompano

Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering

Dr. Pompano's research interests center on developing microfluidic and chemical assays to unravel the complexity of the immune response and inform new immunotherapies. Her lab combines unique expertise in bioanalytical chemistry, microfluidics, bioengineering, and immunology to create…

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Joseph Poon

William Barton Rogers Professor of Physics Professor, Materials Science and Engineering (Courtesy)

Joseph Poon's research group focuses on three projects: i) Study of thermoelectric properties of semiconductors and semimetals ii) Synthesis of thin films study of ferrimagnetic and antiferromagnetic heterostructures that show skyrmionic state and anomalous Hall effect. iii) Study of high-entropy alloys (HEAs) with properties in composition space.

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