Faculty

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moshen eshraghi

Mohsen Eshraghi, Ph.D.

Director, Materials Science and Engineering
College of ECST

Office: E&T A-218
Phone: (323) 343-5218
Email: [email protected]

Additive Manufacturing, Integrated Computational Materials Engineering, Metallurgy

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adel sharif

Adel Sharif, Ph.D., P.E.

Professor
College of ECST

Office: E&T C-156b
Phone: (323) 343-4478
Email: [email protected]

 

Materials Science and Engineering, Solid Mechanics, and Machine Design

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travis hu

Travis Hu, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Principal Graduate Advisor
College of ECST

Office: E&T A-429a
Phone: (323) 343-4486
Email: [email protected]

Nanomechanics and Nanomaterials of Engineering and Biological Systems; Interfacial Phenomena; Bioinspiration and Biomimetics; Multiscale Modeling and Simulation

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Mathias Brieu

Mathias Brieu, Ph.D.

Professor
College of ECST

Office: E&T A-135
Phone: (323) 343-4489
Email: [email protected]

Characterization and Modeling of the Mechanical Properties of Polymer Materials: Behavior, Damage Growth and Fatigue of Rubber-Like Materials, Composite Materials, and Biopolymers

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John Christopher Bachman

John Christopher Bachman, Ph.D., P.E.
Associate Professor,
College of ECST

Office: E&T A-131
Phone: (323) 343-4477
Email: [email protected]

Batteries, Fuel Cells, Supercapacitors, Electrochemistry, Material Discovery and Design for Electrochemical Energy Storage

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emily allen

Emily Allen, Ph.D.

Dean Emerita,
College of ECST

Email: [email protected]

Semiconductors, Electronic Materials, Thin Films

oscar bernal

Oscar O. Bernal, Ph.D.

Professor,
Dept. Physics & Astronomy
College of NSS

Office: BIOS 140
Phone: (323) 343-2100
Email: [email protected]

Experimental condensed matter, Physics and nuclear magnetic resonance in strongly-correlated electron systems

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Radi A. Jishi

Radi A. Jishi, Ph.D.

Chair, Dept. Physics & Astronomy
College of NSS

Office: BIOS 139
Phone: (323) 343-2137
Email: [email protected]

 

Matter Theory, Carbon Networks, Superconductivity, and the Electronic Structure of Crystals

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Guo-Meng (Peter) Zhao

Guo-Meng (Peter) Zhao, Ph.D.

Professor, FERP*,
Dept. Physics & Astronomy
College of NSS

Office: BIOS 140
Phone: (323) 343-2139
Email: [email protected]

High-Temperature Superconducting Cuprates, Colossal Magnetoresistive Manganites, Ferroelectric and Photorefractive Barium Titanates, Quasi-One-Dimensional Carbon Nanotubes

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Frank A. Gomez

Frank A. Gomez, Ph.D.

Professor,
Dept. Physics & Astronomy
College of NSS

Office: Rosser Hall 122E
Phone: (323) 343-2368
Email: [email protected]

 

Microfluidics, Point-of-Care Diagnostic Devices, Sensors, Fuel Cells, and Batteries

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Yangyang Liu

Yangyang Liu, Ph.D.

Professor,
Dept. Chemistry & Biochemistry
College of NSS

Office: Rosser Hall 221E
Phone: (323) 343-2323
Email: [email protected]

Hybrid Materials, Porous Nanomaterials, Metal-Organic Frameworks, Catalysis, Renewable Energy

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Matthias Selke

Matthias Selke, Ph.D.

Professor,
Dept. Chemistry & Biochemistry
College of NSS

Office: Rosser Hall 222B
Phone: (323) 343-2347
Email: [email protected]

Photochemistry; Quantum Dots and Other Luminescent Materials and Photostability of Nanomaterials

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Paul Nerenberg

Paul Nerenberg, Ph.D.

Associate Professor,
Dept. Physics & Astronomy
College of NSS

Office: ASCR 121D
Phone: (323) 343-2122
Email: [email protected]

Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Structure, and Thermodynamics of Biomolecules

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Fred Daneshgaran

Fred Daneshgaran, Ph.D.

Professor,
College of ECST

Office: E&T A-343
Phone: (323) 343-4480
Email: [email protected]

Telecommunication, VLSI, Quantum Electronics, RF Systems

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Marina Mondin

Marina Mondin, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor,
College of ECST

Office: E&T A-305
Phone: (323) 343-4548

Email: [email protected]

Telecommunication, Signal Processing, Simulation, Quantum Communication

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Jose P. Rodriguez

Jose P. Rodriguez, Ph.D.

Professor,
Dept. Physics & Astronomy
College of NSS

Phone: (323) 343-2133
Email: [email protected]

Theoretical condensed matter physics

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Mehran Mazari

Mehran Mazari, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor,
College of ECST

Office: E&T A-215
Phone: (323) 343-4469
Email: [email protected]

Infrastructure Materials and Pavements

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*(FERP) Faculty Early Retirement Program - Faculty work up to 50% of their regular time base.