Faculty
Tenure / Tenure Track
Jonah Erlebacher
Department Chair and Professor
Secondary Appointment: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Research Interests:
Nanomaterials and Materials for Energy
Michael Falk
Professor
Vice Dean of Undergraduate Education
Secondary Appointment: Mechanical Engineering; Physics and Astronomy
Research Interests:
Computational Materials Science, Structural Materials, and Optoelectronic & Magnetic Materials
Luo Gu
ASSISTANT Professor
Research Interests:
Biomaterials, cell and tissue engineering, immunoengineering, nanomaterials, drug delivery, neuroengineering
Kalina Hristova
Professor
Secondary Appointment: Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests:
Biomaterials and the Structure and Physics of Biomembranes
Todd C. Hufnagel
Professor
Secondary Appointment: Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests:
Structural Materials, Nanomaterials, X-Ray Scattering, 3D Microstructures, and Metals
Howard Katz
Professor
Secondary Appointment: Chemistry
Research Interests:
Nanomaterials and Optoelectronic & Magnetic Materials
En Ma
Professor
Research Interests:
Computational Materials Science, Structural Materials, and Nanostructured & Metastable Materials
Hai-Quan Mao
Professor
Associate Director, Institute for NanoBioTechnology
Secondary Appointment: Biomedical Engineering; Translational Tissue Engineering Center; Institute for NanoBioTechnology
Research Interests:
Biomaterials, Regenerative Engineering, Therapeutic Delivery, Immunoengineering, Nanomedicine
Tim Mueller
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
Computational Materials Science, Nanomaterials, and Materials for Energy
Peter C. Searson
Joseph R. and Lynn C. Reynolds Professor
Secondary Appointment: Physics & Astronomy; Biomedical Engineering; Oncology: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Research Interests:
Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering
James B. Spicer
Professor
Secondary Appointment: Principal Professional Staff at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Research Interests:
Materials Characterization, Laser-Materials Interactions, Materials for Energy, Structural Materials, and Optoelectronic & Magnetic Materials
Mitra Taheri
professor
Research Interests:
In situ and analytical electron microscopy; structural, electronic, and magnetic materials; bio materials; extreme environments; additive manufacturing
Timothy P. Weihs
Professor
Secondary Appointment: Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests:
Nanomaterials, Thin Films, and Structural Materials
Research Faculty
Kenneth Livi
Director of the Materials Characterization and Processing Facility
Research Interests:
Characterization of Inorganic and Organic Materials, Biomaterials, Earth Materials, and Surfaces of Nanomaterials through Electron Microscopy
Patricia McGuiggan
Associate Research Professor
Research Interests:
Nanomaterials, Interfacial Properties, and Atomic Force Microscopy
