David Adalsteinsson
Applied Mathematics
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley

Interface problems, Utilizing methods based on the Level Set Method, Algorithms such as the narrow band method and the fast extension method, Involved physical simulations such as simulating the processes involved in the creation of computer chips

Nancy L. Allbritton
Chemistry
Debreczeny Distinguished Professor
M.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Microfabricated Materials for Biomedical Research, Cellular Signaling, Miniaturized Systems for Cellular Analysis

Valerie S. Ashby
Chemistry
Gordon and Bowman Gray Distinguished Term Professor
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Polymer Design and Synthesis, Polymer Composites, Biomaterial Synthesis

Max L. Berkowitz
Chemistry
Professor
Ph.D., Weizmann Institute of Science

Theoretical and Computational Chemistry and Biophysical Chemistry

Roberto Camassa
Applied Mathematics
George Kane Distinguished Professor
Ph.D., Engineering Science and Applied Mathematics, California Institute of Technology

Nonlinear Evolution Equations, Mathematical Modeling, Fluid Mechanics, Optics

Joseph M. DeSimone, IAM Director
Chemistry
Chancellor's Eminent Professor of Chemistry, UNC-CH and William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, NCSU
Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

New strategies for the delivery of detection, imaging and therapeutic agents for the battle against human disease; Nanomedicine; Fluoropolymers: photolithography, fuel cells, microfluidics; Medical devices; Colloid, surfactant and surface chemistry; Polymer synthesis and processing in carbon dioxide

Timothy C. Elston
Dept of Pharmacology
Professor
Director, Graduate Program in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Ph.D., Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology

Motor proteins, Transcriptional regulation, Constructing realistic models of these regulatory systems that take into account intrinsic noise

M. Gregory Forest, IAM Co-Director
Mathematics
Biomedical Engineering
Grant Dahlstrom Distinguished Professor
Ph.D., University of Arizona

Flow and Structure of Nano-Materials & Macromolecular Fluids, Weakly Compressible Transport Phenomena, Solitons and Optical Fiber Applications, Inverse Problems for Material Characterization, Modeling of Transport in Multiphase Porous Media

Jingfang Huang
Applied Mathematics
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Courant Institute of Mathematic Sciences,
New York University

Numerical Analysis, Scientific Computation, Fast Algorithms, Potential Theory, Integral Equations and their Applications in Electromagnetics, Fluid Dynamics, Molecular Mechanics and Quantum Chemistry

Rudolph L. Juliano
Pharmacology
Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor
Ph.D., Biophysics, University of Rochester

Cell Adhesion Molecules, Macromolecular Therapeutics

Dmitri Khveshchenko
Physics and Astronomy
Professor
Ph.D., Moscow

Quantum transport theory of disordered metals and superconductors, Many-body effects in mesoscopic and nanoscale systems

Wenbin Lin
Chemistry
Professor
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Supramolecular, Materials, and Catalytic Chemistry

Rene Lopez
Physics and Astronomy
Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Vanderbilt University

Nanoscale optical materials, photonic structures, and optoelectronic properties of transition metal oxides

Jianping Lu
Physics and Astronomy
Professor
Ph.D., CUNY

Electronic and structural properties of novel materials and strongly correlated systems such as fullerenes and high Tc superconductors

Richard M. McLaughlin
Applied Mathematics
Professor
Ph.D., Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University

Turbulent Transport, Turbulent Combustion, Thermal Convection, Weakly Compressible Transport Phenomena, Anelastic Mixing: Transport by Weakly Compressible Flow, An elementary field theory for turbulent diffusion

Laurie E. McNeil
Physics and Astronomy
Professor
Ph.D., Illinois

Optical spectroscopy of semiconductors and insulators; Raman and Brillouin scattering; photoluminescence; high-pressure physics; physics and music

William Marzluff
Biochemistry and Biophysics
Kenan Distinguished Professor
Ph.D., Duke University

Regulation of gene activity in animal cells, Regulation of gene expression during the cell cycle by postranscriptional mechanisms

Tom Meyer
Chemistry
Arey Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
Ph.D., Stanford University

Electron Transfer in Molecular Assemblies, Solar Energy Conversion; Proton Coupled Electron Transfer; Photophysics and Photochemistry

Michael L. Minion
Applied Mathematics
Professor
Ph.D., Mathematics, University of California,Berkeley

Computational Fluid Dynamics, Multiscale Numerical Methods, Integral Equation Methods, Multi-implicit Methods for ODEs, Numerical Methods for Stochastic Differential Equations

Sorin Mitran
Applied Mathematics
Associate Professor
Ph.D., The "Politehnica" University of Bucharest

Computational methods, Fluid flow instability, Turbomachinery analysis, Bubbly flow, Turbulence, Multiphysics computation and Astrophysical computation

Peter J. Mucha
Mathematics
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Princeton University

Study and simulation of microscopic and macroscopic models of interacting particle systems

Royce W. Murray
Chemistry
Kenan Professor
Ph.D., Northwestern University

Electrochemistry, Molecular Design, Sensors

Robert K. Pinschmidt, IAM Deputy Director
Ph.D., University of Oregon, Eugene

Functional Monomers and Polymeric Materials, Colloid and Interface Science, Energy Science and Policy

J. Michael Ramsey
Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering
Minnie N. Goldby Distinguished Professor
Ph.D., Indiana University

Microfluidics, Nanofluidics, Microfabricated Chemical Instrumentation

Michael Rubinstein
Chemistry
John P. Barker Distinguished Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University

Polymer Theory and Computer Simulations

Edward T. Samulski
Chemistry
Cary C. Boshamer Professor
Ph.D., Princeton University

Structure and Dynamics of Liquid and Polymer Crystals

Mark H. Schoenfisch
Chemistry
Professor
Ph.D., University of Arizona

Analytical Sensors, Biomaterials, Nanoparticle Therapeutics, and Scanning Probe Microscopy

Sergei S. Sheiko
Chemistry
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Institute of Chemical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Polymer thin films, Molecular Fluidics, Stimuli Responsive Macromolecules, and Atomic Force Microscopy

Richard Superfine
Physics and Astronomy
Bowman and Gordon Gray Professor
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley

Biological and Condensed Matter Physics, Microscopy, Properties of surfaces and interfaces using linear and nonlinear optical techniques, scanning tunneling, atomic force and near field optical microscopes; interfacial ordering and dynamics of molecules, polymers, polypeptides and nanometer-sized metal and semiconductor clusters

Russell M. Taylor
Computer Science, Physics and Astronomy, Applied and Materials Sciences
Research Professor
Ph.D., UNC-Chapel Hill

Scientific Visualization, Distributed Virtual Worlds, Haptic Display, Interactive 3D Computer Graphics

Holden H. Thorp
Chemistry
Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Kenan Professor of Chemistry
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology

Biological Application of Transition Metal Redox Chemistry

Frank Tsui
Physics and Astronomy
Professor
Ph.D., Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Atomic scale materials synthesis and characterization using molecular beam epitaxy techniques, electron diffraction and scanning probe microscopy

Sean Washburn
Physics and Astronomy
Cary Boshamer Professor of Physics; Chair of Applied and Materials Sciences
Ph.D., Duke University

Condensed Matter Physics and Material Science. Effects of quantum-mechanical coherence in charge transport in small systems, Ballistic transport in semiconductors, Control of industrial plasmas, Conductivity in polymers, Scanning probe lithography

Yue Wu
Physics and Astronomy
Professor
Ph.D., University of Leuven, Belgium

NMR studies of confined systems, quasicrystals, and polymers

Wei You
Chemistry
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago

Organic and Polymer Synthesis, Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Solar Cells, Molecular Electronics, Organic Spintronics, Chemistry and Catalysis with Carbon Nanotubes

Otto Zhou
Physics and Astronomy
David R. Godschalk Professor; Associate Chair, Curriculum in Applied and Materials Science
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Nanomaterials, new x-ray imaging technology, and field emission display. Materials synthesis and characterization