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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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Optics, Photonics and Sensing Energy, Transportation and the Environment Materials and Nanotechnology 
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    James A. Smith

    Henry L. Kinnier Professor of Civil Engineering
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    James A. Smith is an environmental engineer holding the Henry L. Kinnier Chair of Civil Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UVA. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from Virginia Tech in 1983 and 1984, and his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Princeton University in 1992.
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    Nathan Swami

    Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Nathan Swami

    Nathan Swami is a Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
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    Ronald J. Unnerstall

    Professor of Practice - Chemical Process Safety 2019 Brenton S. Halsey Distinguished Visiting Professor
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    Ron Unnerstall retired from BP in 2017 following a varied career in the Oil and Gas Industry spanning over 34 years. His career was predominately in Refining and Marketing, including 24 years in oil refineries across four locations, and other executive assignments in Chicago, London…

    Haydn N. Wadley

    University Professor, Edgar Starke Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
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    Haydn N.G. Wadley is a professor of Materials Science and Engineering at UVA. He has interests in materials science, composite materials, micromechanics, and thermal transport. His current research explores high temperature thermal coatings systems, microarchitectured materials, entropy stabilized refractory metal alloys and rare earth silicates.
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    Keith Williams

    Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Clark Scholars Faculty Director
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    Williams' completed my Ph.D. in materials physics at Penn State University in 2001, and undertook postdoctoral research in the Molecular Biophysics Group at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, thereafter establishing a nanophysics laboratory in the physics department at the University of Virginia. 
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    Mona Zebarjadi

    Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
    Mona Zebarjadi

    Mona Zebarjadi is a joint professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering Departments at the University of Virginia, where she is leading the Energy Science and Nanotechnology Lab (ESNL). 
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    Leonid V. Zhigilei

    Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Academic Advisor, MSE Virginia Engineering Online Program
    Leonid V. Zhigilei

    Leonid Zhigilei is a professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Virginia.
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