Director, Joseph M. DeSimone
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

Co-Director, M. Gregory Forest
Mathematics and 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

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

Functional monomers and polymeric materials, colloid and interface science, energy science and policy.

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

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

Cell adhesion Molecules, Macromolecular Therapeutics

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, Condensed Matter Physics
Ph.D., CUNY

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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