MRSEC - Key Persons

Abhinandan Antony

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student
  • Student, FU FOUNDATN SCHL of ENGINEERING

Alexander Paul Aydt

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student
  • Student, GRADUATE SCHOOL of ARTS and SCIENCES, Chemistry

Ana Asenjo Garcia

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator
  • Assistant Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Columbia University
Research Interests: Atomic, molecular, and optical physics; Condensed matter physics

Andrew Crowther

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator
  • Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Barnard College
Research Interests: Vibrational Properties of Nanomaterials; Chemistry of graphene; Raman spectroscopy; Reaction dynamics

Andrew Millis

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Principal Investigator
  • Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Columbia University
Research Interests: Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics; Condensed Matter Physics

Ann E. McDermott

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator
  • Esther and Ronald Breslow Professor of Biological Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University
Research Interests: Biological; Experimental Physical

Candice Forrester

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Member of the Student Leadership Committee

Colin Nuckolls

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Principal Investigator
  • Higgins Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, MRSEC Co - Director ISuperSeed Co - Lead
Research Interests: Experimental Physical; Inorganic; Materials; Organic

Cory Raymond Dean

Job Titles:
  • Dean
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Cory Raymond Dean / Principal Investigator
  • Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Columbia University
Research Interests: Condensed matter physics; Atomic, molecular, and optical physics

Daniel Chica

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Member of the Student Leadership Committee

David Reichman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Principal Investigator
  • Professor of Chemistry Chair Department of Chemistry, Columbia University
Research Interests: Theoretical; Disordered materials

Dmitri Basov

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Principal Investigator
  • Professor

Dusan Zivanovic

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Staff
  • Contracts Officer, Ctr Integrated Science

Eric Seewald

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Member of the Student Leadership Committee

Eunice Bae

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Member of the Student Leadership Committee

Haiming Deng

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Hector Ochoa De Eguileor Romillo

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator
  • Associate Research Scientist, Department of Physics, Columbia University
Research Interests: Spintronics and magnetism; Quantum transport in disordered media; Quantum Hall physics; Graphene and other 2D materials

Helen H. Lu

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Principal Investigator
  • Vice Chair and Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University
Research Interests: Interface tissue engineering and engineering complex tissues; Multi-functional and inductive biomaterial design for guiding stem cell differentiation; Biomimetic models to elucidate cell-material interactions; Mechanism of biomineralization; Orthopaedic and dental biomaterials

Ido Levy

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

James Hone

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Principal Investigator
  • Wang Fong Jen Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MRSEC Director
Research Interests: Nanoscale materials; Two-dimensional materials; Mechanical properties; Nano electronics; Nano-electromechanical systems; Mechano-biology

James T. Teherani

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
Research Interests: Devices; Materials; Modeling & Simulation; Nanoscience; Sustainable Humanity and Energy

Jeffrey L. DeMars

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Staff
  • Director of Programs and Outreach, Columbia Nano Initiative / MRSEC, Columbia University

Jennifer Cano

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Principal Investigator
  • Assistant Professor at Stony Brook in Physics and Astronomy / Flatiron Institute

Jenny Ardelean

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Jia Chen

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

John K. Sous

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Member of the Student Leadership Committee

Jue Wang

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student
  • Student, GRADUATE SCHOOL of ARTS and SCIENCES, Chemistry

Katayun Barmak

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Principal Investigator
  • Philips Electronics Professor, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University
Research Interests: Processing and structure relationships to electrical and magnetic properties of metal films; Developing transmission electron microscopy automated orientation imaging techniques that can be applied to the study of nanostructured materials

Kim Lewis

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Principal Investigator

Ko-Fan Huang

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Latha Venkataraman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Principal Investigator
  • Lawrence Gussman Professor of Applied Physics, Professor of Chemistry, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, MRSEC ISuperSeed Co - Lead
Research Interests: Single moleculte electronics and mechanics; Scanning tunneling microscopy & spectroscopy; X-ray photoemission spectroscopy

Lauren Marbella

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Principal Investigator
  • Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Dept of Chemical Engineering

Lawrence Gussman

Job Titles:
  • Lawrence Gussman Professor of Applied Physics, Professor of Chemistry, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, MRSEC ISuperSeed Co - Lead

Lia Krusin-Elbaum

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Principal Investigator

Madisen Holbrook

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Member of the Student Leadership Committee

Maria Tamargo

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Principal Investigator
  • Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, City College of New York
Research Interests: Materials growth and properties of semiconductor multi-layered structures grown by liquid phase epitaxy (LPE), molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and gas source MBE

Mark E. Ziffer

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry

Michael L. Steigerwald

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Milan Delor

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Simon Billinge

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Song Liu

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Member of the Student Leadership Committee

Sonya Smith

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee

Theanne Schiros

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Principal Investigator

Theodore Betley

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Principal Investigator

Thomas Searles

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Timothy Berkelbach

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Principal Investigator

Tony Heinz

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Vadim Oganesyan

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Vinod Menon

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Principal Investigator

Wang Fong Jen

Job Titles:
  • Wang Fong Jen Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MRSEC Director

Xavier Roy

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Principal Investigator

Xiaoyang Zhu

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee

Yuan Yang

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator
  • Associate Professor, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University
Research Interests: Exploration of novel materials and chemsitry for advanced energy storage; Thermal harvesting and management; Investigation of fundamental structure-property correlations and chemical processes in energy materials and devices