Faculty Directory
Associate Department Head & Blalock-Kennedy-Pierce Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Analog/mixed-signal integrated circuit design for extreme environments across multiple semiconductor technologies, ultra-low power analog IC design for signal processing and computation, multi-channel monolithic instrumentation systems
Assistant Head & Associate Professor, Nuclear Engineering
Nuclear reactor safety and simulation of reactor and system transients, advanced nuclear fuel and cladding materials, assessment and simulation of sustainable nuclear fuel cycles
Associate Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace & Biomedical Engineering
Developing new high-performance materials for additive manufacturing technologies, printable fiber-reinforced polymer and ceramic matrix composites, multi-material hybrid structures
Research Professor, Large Animal Clinical Sciences
Advancing regenerative medicine, tissue engineering, cell-based therapies for treatment of disease
Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
Electrical activity at interfaces and crystal defects, atomic and electronic structure at interfaces, atomic resolution Z-contrast imaging, atomic resolution electron energy-loss spectroscopy, atomic structure calculations with density functional theory
Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
Analytical and computational mechanics of materials, small scale mechanical behavior, failure of advanced structural materials, thin film heterostructures
UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair for Advanced Alloy Theory and Development
High-entropy alloys, small-scale mechanical behavior of crystalline and amorphous materials, refractory and precious metals for space power applications, mechanical behavior at extremes of temperature and strain rate, environmental effects on microstructure and mechanical properties
Research Professor, Nuclear Engineering
Radiation effects in materials, burnable absorbers, research reactors, ultra-high vacuum technology
Professor Emeritus Mechanical, Aerospace & Biomedical Engineering
Mechanical engineering, use of robotics in environments inhospitable to humans
Associate Department Head & Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
Multi-scale materials modeling, advanced materials for renewable energy systems, classical molecular dynamics simulation, density functional theory, sustainable energy, structure/property relationships in nanostructured materials, coarse-grained modeling of polymers
Chancellor's Professor & Department Head, Materials Science & Engineering
Elastic constants and lattice dynamics of novel materials, including transition metal oxides, frustrated magnets and spin glasses, thermoelectric materials
Associate Professor, Nuclear Engineering
Radiation damage and high-pressure studies, materials science