Chemistry Members
Matthias Agne – Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
agne@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: The Agne Lab does technology-motivated fundamental research of energy and environmental materials using a combined theoretical, computational and experimental approach. Thermodynamic principles and microscopic models are used to build an understanding of complex behavior in solids, such as thermal, electronic and ionic transport, and targeted experiments are used to test our theories.
Shannon W. Boettcher – Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
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.
Carl K. Brozek – Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
cbrozek@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Our goal is to understand compounds that blur the distinction between molecules and materials, and design functional materials that harness this unique set of properties. We study energy capture, interfacial redox, molecular clusters, porous solids, soft materials, and physical inorganic methods.
Amanda K. Cook – Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
akcook@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: We are a synthetic group focused on the development of heterogeneous catalysts for use in organic transformations that are otherwise achieved through unsustainable or hazardous means.
Kenneth M. Doxsee – Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
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 – Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
mguenza@uoregon.edu
Research Interests:Development of novel, molecular-scale, statistical-mechanical theories of the structure and dynamics of complex materials. The research goal of the Guenza lab is the design and implementation of theoretical approaches that coarse-grain structure and dynamics of molecular liquids.
Michael M. Haley – Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry / Richard M. & Patricia H. Noyes Professor
haley@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Synthesis of non-natural carbon networks and substructures; optical and nonlinear optical materials.
Gary S. Harlow – Research Assistant Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry / Associate Director, Oregon Center for Electrochemistry
gharlow@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Interfacial electrochemistry and sustainability. Molecular modification of single crystal electrorodes. Use of large-scale facilities for understanding structure activity relationships
Christopher H. Hendon – Associate Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
chendon@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Materials theory and high performance computing
James E. Hutchison – Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
hutch@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Nanoelectronics, chemically-modified surfaces, green materials chemistry.
Ramesh Jasti – Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Associate Director, Materials Science Institute
rjasti@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: The bottom-up organic synthesis, characterization, and application of new nanocarbon architectures.
Darren W. Johnson – Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Director, Materials Science Institute
dwj@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Inorganic, Organic, Supramolecular and Materials Chemistry.
David C. Johnson – Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
davej@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Research at the interface between Chemistry and Physics to develop novel approaches to solid state synthesis of new materials.
Paul Kempler – Research Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
plempler@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Design and characterization of microstructured interfaces for electrochemical energy conversion and storage. Associate Director of Oregon Center for Electrochemistry.
Mark C. Lonergan – Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
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 – Associate Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
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 & Biochemistry
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.
Michael D. Pluth – Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
pluth@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Molecular recognition at the interface of organic/inorganic chemistry and chemical biology.
James Prell – Associate Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
jprell@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: The Prell Group uses state-of-the-art mass spectrometry and ion mobility experiments to learn how soft materials, such as biological membranes, are structured at the nanometer size scale and below.
Teresa Rapp – Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
drrapp@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Chemical Biology, Polymer Chemistry.
Cathy Wong – Associate Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
cwong3@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: In situ ultrafast spectroscopy of materials formation.
Physics Members
Benjamín Alemán – Associate Professor of Physics
baleman@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Physics and synthesis of low-dimensional systems; nanoelectromechanical systems; solid-state defect centers and qubits; quantum and nanoscale-based sensing and microscopy; photonics; microfluidics.
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 – Professor of Physics
ecorwin@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Soft condensed matter, granular materials, jamming, the glass transition, and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, using experimental, simulational, and theoretical tools.
Dean Livelybrooks – Senior Tentured Instructor of Physics
dlivelyb@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Science education/outreach, magnetotellurics, dynamic margin model constraints.
Ben McMorran – Professor of Physics
mcmorran@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Free electron physics and interferometry, matter wave optics, electron microscopy, magnetic materials.
Kayla Nguyen – Assistant Professor of Physics
kxn@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Electron microscopy, ptychography, magnetism, topology
Raghuveer Parthasarathy – Professor of Physics
raghu@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Material properties of biological membranes, mechanisms of protein organization, advanced microscopy techniques.
Jayson Paulose – Associate Professor of Physics
jpaulose@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Theoretical soft matter and biophysics
Richard P. Taylor – Professor of Physics
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.
Hailin Wang – Professor of Physics / Alec and Kay Keith Chair in Physics
hailin@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Experimental optical and condensed matter physics; quantum optics with spins, excitons, and nanomechanical oscillators, quantum information processing
Nik Zhelev – Research Assistant Professor / Director Quantum Technology Master’s Internship Program
nzhelev@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Superconducting Quantum Circuits, Quantum Computing Hardware