Centers, Labs, Groups

In research labs and groups across UVA Engineering, our faculty and students are making discoveries and disseminating their breakthroughs across the globe.

  • Koenig Research Group

    The Koenig Research Group, let by Professor Gary Koenig, investigates the design of new materials and material chemistries.

  • Laboratory for Astrophysics and Surface Physics

    Our team studies the interaction of energetic particles (ions, electrons) and photons with solid surfaces, with particular emphasis on understanding the physical and chemical processes at play in our solar system and interstellar medium.

  • Lampe Biomaterials Group

    Professor Kyle Lampe established the Lampe Group in 2014 to develop biomaterials for neural tissue engineering

  • LASER

    Combined postdoctoral, graduate, and undergraduate research in the areas of high power laser applications for solar cell manufacturing and material analysis, infrared detectors, thermal solar energy, thermophotovoltaics, quantum-dot based solar concentrators, laser microtexturing of surfaces, laser micromachining, laser brazing, etc.

  • Link Lab

    Opened in January 2018, the Link Lab at UVA Engineering is a world-class center of excellence in cyber-physical systems. The Lab consists of more than 250 faculty and graduate students from multiple departments and conducts pioneering work in Robotics & Autonomous Vehicles, Smart and Connected Health, Hardware for IoT, and Smart Cities.

  • Materials Informatics Group

    Our group focuses on developing novel informatics approaches to accelerate the search and discovery of new materials.
    Capabilities
    • Design space guidance via DFT/ML

    • Bayesian learning
    • Quantitative structure-property relationships
    • Materials Informatics

  • MIST Center

    The Multi-Functional Integrated System Technology (MIST) Center is a National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center. It's mission is to facilitate integration of novel materials, processes, devices and circuits into multi-functional systems through research partnerships between university, industry and government stakeholders. The UVA site adds expertise in functional materials, solid-state devices, photonics, Terahertz sensing, thermal characterization, multiscale modeling and heterogeneous integration. UVA Site Director: Avik Ghosh.

  • MULTISCALE MUSCLE MECHANOPHYSIOLOGY-M3-lab

  • Naegle Research Lab

    The Naegle Lab seeks to understand the regulation and function of tyrosine phosphorylation in complex networks. We combine systems biology, computation, and experiments to test predict and test the function of tyrosine phosphorylation in proteins and protein networks.

  • Omni-Reality & Cognition Lab

    Dr. Donna Chen of the Omni-Reality & Cognition Lab is dedicated to the education and research of human interaction with infrastructure systems and environments, utilizing alternative (virtual, mixed, and augmented) reality technologies.