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Faculty Profiles

Physics members ~ Chemistry members ~ Associates

Physics Members

	Dietrich Belitz – Professor of Physics dbelitz@uoregon.edu Research Interests: Quantum many-body problems, including superconductivity, magnetism, transport processes, and quantum phase transitions, in particular metal-insulator transitions and magnetic transitions.
	Eric Corwin – Assistant Professor of Physics ecorwin@uoregon.edu Research Interests: Atomic force microscopy of single molecule proteins, structure and dynamics of jammed athermal packings
	Miriam Deutsch – Associate Professor of Physics miriamd@uoregon.edu Research Interests: Developing new fabrication techniques for metallo-dielectrics with multi-scale spatial features. Theoretical modeling and numerical simulations of the materials we fabricate, as well as other novel functional metal structures.
	Stephen Gregory – Associate Professor of Physics sgregory@uoregon.edu Research Interests: Tunneling and near-field optical microscopy, molecular electronics.
	Roger Haydock – Professor of Physics haydock@uoregon.edu Research Interests: Electronic structure and processes at surfaces, computational physics, quantum chaos.
	Stephen D. Kevan –Professor of Physics kevan@uoregon.edu Research Interests: Surface and thin film physics; electronic structure and collective excitations at surfaces; nanoscale spatial and temporal fluctuations in magnetic and otherp complex materials.
	Dean Livelybrooks, Senior Tentured Instructor of Physics dlivelyb@uoregon.edu Research Interests: Science education/outreach, magnetotellurics, dynamic margin model constraints.
	Ben McMorran – Assistant Professor of Physics mcmorran@uoregon.edu Research Interests: Free electron physics and interferometry, matter wave optics, electron microscopy, magnetic materials.
	Raghuveer Parthasarathy – Associate Professor of Physics raghu@uoregon.edu Research Interests: Material properties of biological membranes, mechanisms of protein organization, advanced microscopy techniques.
	Richard P. Taylor – Professor of Physics *Director, Materials Science Institute* rpt@uoregon.edu Research Interests: Quantum chaos and fractals in electronic nano-devices, with applications in solar devices and retinal implants. Visual science of fractals.

Chemistry Members [return to top]

	Shannon W. Boettcher – Assistant Professor of Chemistry swb@uoregon.edu Research Interests: The capture and storage of solar energy in a collaborative interdisciplinary environment, utilizing inorganic synthesis, nano and microscience, surface chemistry, simulation, physical measurement, and device fabrication to design, build and study new materials and structures.
	Kenneth M. Doxsee – Professor of Chemistry doxsee@uoregon.edu Research Interests: Inorganic chemistry - designed synthesis of metastable phases, phase- and shape-selective crystallization of solid-state materials. Development of environmentally benign methods for the synthesis of solid-state materials
	Marina G. Guenza – Associate Professor of Chemistry mguenza@uoregon.edu Research Interests: Development of novel, molecular-scale, statistical-mechanical theories of the structure and dynamics of complex materials
	Michael M. Haley – Professor of Chemistry haley@uoregon.edu Research Interests: Synthesis of non-natural carbon networks and substructures; optical and nonlinear optical materials.
	James E. Hutchison – Professor of Chemistry hutch@uoregon.edu Research Interests: Nanoelectronics, chemically-modified surfaces, green materials chemistry.
	Darren W. Johnson – Associate Professor of Chemistry dwj@uoregon.edu Research Interests: Inorganic, Organic, Supramolecular and Materials Chemistry.
	David C. Johnson – Professor of Chemistry davej@uoregon.edu Research Interests: Novel approaches to solid state synthesis of new materials.
	Shih-Yuan Liu – Assistant Professor of Chemistry lsy@uoregon.edu Research Interests: Synthetic organic/organometallic chemistry with emphasis on developing molecules of importance in biomedical research and materials science.
	Mark C. Lonergan – Professor of Chemistry lonergan@uoregon.edu Research Interests: Study of polymer blends, composites and copolymers in which at least one component is optically or electrically active, such as a conducting polymer or inorganic superconductor.
	George Nazin – Assistant Professor of Chemistry gnazin@uoregon.edu Research Interests: The connection between the chemical structure and properties of nanoscale materials and devices. In particular, real-space experimental approaches that provide spectroscopic informaiton on the atomic and molecular scales.
	Catherine J. Page – Associate Professor of Chemistry cpage@uoregon.edu Research Interests: Novel synthetic routes to functional materials, including self-assembly of multilayer thin films and sol-gel synthesis of complex oxides.
	Geraldine L. Richmond – Professor of Chemistry richmond@uoregon.edu Research Interests: Optical studies of interfacial structure and dynamics.
	David Tyler – Professor of Chemistry dtyler@uoregon.edu Research Interests: Inorganic materials, polymer chemistry, photochemistry.

Associates [return to top]

Victoria J. DeRose, Professor of Chemistry
derose@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Chemical activity and structure in nucleic acids and proteins, with an emphasis on metal interactions.

Russell J. Donnelly, Professor Emeritus of Physics
russ@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Physics of fluids, low temperature physics.

Michael E. Kellman, Professor of Chemistry
kellman@uoregon.edu
Research Interests:Theoretical dynamics of highly excited molecules.

Andrew H. Marcus, Professor of Chemistry
ahmarcus@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Polymer and colloid materials and their relationship to bulk thermodynamic and mechanical properties.

Michael D. Pluth, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
pluth@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Molecular recognition at the interface of organic/inorganic chemistry and chemical biology

George W. Rayfield, Professor Emeritus of Physics
rayfield@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Application of biological materials to electronic devices.

Michael G. Raymer, Professor of Physics
raymer@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Quantum Information Processing; Quantum Optics; Quantum Control;Semiconductor Optical Physics; Nonlinear Optics.

John Toner– Professor of Physics
jjt@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Condensed matter theory ranging from studies of transport in disordered superconductors to models for the motion of flocks of birds.

Hailin Wang – Professor of Physics
hailin@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures.