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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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Peter Norton

Associate Professor

Peter Norton is associate professor of history in the Department of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia, where he teaches history of technology, social dimensions of engineering, research, and professional ethics. He is the author of Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the…

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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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Elizabeth Orrico

Lecturer Academic General Faculty Teaching Track, Computer Science

Elizabeth Orrico joined the Department of Computer Science as a lecturer in August 2020. Prior to her appointment at UVA Engineering, she spent two years as a physics and math teacher in Los Angeles as a Teach For America corpsmember.

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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Chris Paolucci

Assistant Professor

Chris is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering. He completed his B.S. and Ph.D in Chemical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame.

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Jesse Pappas

Assistant Professor

Jesse Pappas, Assistant Professor of Engineering and Society, is one of the only social psychologists in the U.S. with a full-time appointment in engineering. He works at the crossroads of individual experience and technological (e.g., educational) systems to cultivate human potential and keep technology where it belongs, working for us.

B. Brian Park

Professor Director, Traffic Operations Laboratory

Brian Park is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Systems and Information Engineering at the University of Virginia. Prior to joining UVA, he was a Research Fellow at the National Institute of Statistical Sciences and a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at NC State University,

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Lisa Colosi Peterson

Professor

Lisa Colosi Peterson is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and director of the UVA Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Lab.

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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

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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Upsorn Praphamontripong

Associate Professor, Academic General Faculty, Teaching Track, Computer Science

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Kun Qian

Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Kun Qian is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. He is also a member of the Link Lab. Before joining UVA, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California San Diego. He received his Ph.D. and B.E. from Tsinghua…