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Director
David Lederman
- Title
- Professor
- Director, Materials Science & Engineering Initiative
- Department
- Physics Department
- Phone 831-459-1217
- Website
- Office Location
- Interdisciplinary Sciences Building, 212 ISB
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Solid State Physics, Material Science, Physics, Applied Physics
- Summary of Expertise
- Magnetic nanostructures and interfaces
- Multiferroic and magnetoelectric materials and interfaces
- Topological insulators
- Bioelectronics
Faculty
Shiva Abbaszadeh
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Department
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Phone 831-459-4929
- Website
- Office Location
- Engineering Building 2, 243A
- Summary of Expertise
Shiva Abbaszadeh’s research focuses on developing new instrumentation, computational approaches, and measurement techniques for radiation detection and biomedical imaging. Her overall goal Read more ...
Aris Alexandradinata
- Title
- Assistant Professor
- Department
- Physics Department
- Phone 831-459-2824
- Website
- Office Location
- Interdisciplinary Sciences Building, 245
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Physics
- Summary of Expertise
Aris is a condensed matter theorist who is fascinated by unlikely connections between abstract algebraic topology and photovoltaic technology.
Alexander L. Ayzner
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Department
- Chemistry & Biochemistry Department
- Phone 831-459-5878 (Office), 831-502-8187 (Lab)
- Website
- Office Location
- Physical Sciences Building, 146
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Chemistry, Physics, Material Science
- Summary of Expertise
Physical chemistry of organic semiconductors; energy and electron transfer dynamics; conjugated polymer physics; supramolecular assembly; charge transport in organic thin films Read more ...
David Belanger
- Title
- Professor
- Department
- Physics Department
- Phone 831-459-2871
- Website
- Office Location
- Interdisciplinary Sciences Building, 245 ISB
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Physics
Ilan Benjamin
- Title
- Distinguished Professor
- Department
- Chemistry & Biochemistry Department
- Phone 831-459-3152 (Office), 831-459-3435 (Lab)
- Website
- Office Location
- Physical Sciences Building, 338
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Chemistry, Computational Modeling
- Summary of Expertise
Theoretical chemistry, molecular dynamics of chemical reactions in liquids and at interfaces Read more ...
Frank G Bridges
- Title
- Research Professor
- Department
- Physics Department
- Phone 831-459-2329, 831-459-2893
- Website
- Office Location
- Nat Sci 2 Main Building, 217 & 213
Sue A Carter
- Title
- Professor
- Department
- Graduate Studies Division
- Physics Department
- Phone 831-331-1050
- Website
- Office Location
- Nat Sci 2 Main Building, 349 Nat Sci II
- Summary of Expertise
Renewable Energy, Sustainable Systems, Optoelectronics
Shaowei Chen
- Title
- Professor
- Department
- Chemistry & Biochemistry Department
- Phone 831-459-5841 (Office), 831-459-1892 (Lab)
- Website
- Office Location
- Physical Sciences Building, Physical Sciences Bldg 148
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Chemistry, Material Science, Energy
- Summary of Expertise
Synthesis, characterization, and manipulation of novel functional nanomaterials (metals and semiconductors); their long-range ordered assemblies and related nanoscale electron transfer; Read more ...
Joshua Deutsch
- Title
- Professor
- Department
- Physics Department
- Phone 831-459-2265
- Website
- Office Location
- Interdisciplinary Sciences Building, 219 ISB
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Biophysics; DNA, RNA, Proteins; Neural Networks; Biomaterials; Mathematical Modeling; Material Science; Physics; Quantum Mechanics; Big Data
Peter Fischer
- Title
- Adjunct Professor
- Department
- Physics Department
- Phone 831-459-5324 (office), 925-395-7846 (cell)
- Website
- Office Location
- Remote work location, 256 ISB
- Summary of Expertise
My scientific expertise is in characterizing magnetic materials with polarized x-rays. I am primarily using x-ray spectromicroscopies, which allow me in a unique way to image with almost nanometer Read more ...
Hendrik Ohldag
- Title
- Adjunct Professor
- Department
- Physics Department
- Phone 5104865364
- Office Location
- Interdisciplinary Sciences Building, 256 ISB
Nobby Kobayashi
- Title
- Professor
- Department
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Phone (831) 459-3571
- Website
- Office Location
- UC Santa Cruz Westside Research Park, A156
Yat Li
- Title
- Professor
- Department
- Chemistry & Biochemistry Department
- Phone 831-459-1952 (Office), 831-502-7363 (Lab)
- Website
- Office Location
- Physical Sciences Building, 160
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Chemistry, Material Science, Energy
- Summary of Expertise
Nanomaterials synthesis; 3D printing; Electro- and photoelectrochemical catalysis; Supercapacitors and batteries; Microbial fuel cells
Onuttom Narayan
- Title
- Professor
- Department
- Physics Department
- Phone 831-459-4123
- Website
- Office Location
- Interdisciplinary Sciences Building, 241 ISB
Scott Oliver
- Title
- Professor
- Department
- Chemistry & Biochemistry Department
- Phone 831-459-5448 (Office), 831-459-4225 (Lab), 831-459-2892 (X-ray Lab)
- Website
- Office Location
- Physical Sciences Building, 258
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Chemistry, Material Science, Environmental Studies, Water, X-ray Crystallography, Solid State Physics, Biotechnology
- Summary of Expertise
Cationic inorganic materials for environmental cleanup; biomaterials; powder and single crystal X-ray diffraction
Michael Mikio Oye
- Title
- Associate Adjunct Professor
- Department
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Phone (650) 604-1179
- Website
- Office Location
- Jack Baskin Engineering Building, N/A
Yuan Ping
- Title
- Adjunct Associate Professor
- Department
- Physics Department
- Website
- Office Location
- Interdisciplinary Sciences Building, NA
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Chemistry, Quantum Mechanics, Computational Modeling
- Summary of Expertise
Theoretical chemistry, materials chemistry, electronic structure, optical excitations, spin dynamics, two-dimensional materials, electronic transport and catalytic properties of Read more ...
Arthur P Ramirez
- Title
- Professor
- Department
- Physics Department
- Phone 831-239-2300
- Website
- Office Location
- UC Santa Cruz Westside Research Park, A158
Marco A Rolandi
- Title
- Professor
- Department
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Website
- Office Location
- Jack Baskin Engineering Building, N/A
Sujoy Roy
- Title
- Dr.
- Department
- Physics Department
- Phone 831-459-3744
- Office Location
- Interdisciplinary Sciences Building, 256
Holger Schmidt
- Title
- Distinguished Professor, Narinder Kapany Chair of Optoelectronics
- Narinder Kapany Chair of Optoelectronics
- Department
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Baskin School of Engineering
- Phone 831-459-1482
- Website
- Office Location
- Jack Baskin Engineering Building, 245
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Electrical Engineering; Optics; Physics; DNA, RNA, Proteins; Material Science; Bioengineering
- Summary of Expertise
Optofluidics, integrated biophotonics, single molecule analysis on a chip; nanoscale devices Read more ...
Tal Sharf
- Title
- Assistant Professor
- Department
- Biomolecular Engineering
- Website
- Office Location
- UC Santa Cruz Westside Research Park, Genomics Institute
- Summary of Expertise
Applied Physics
Neuroscience
Bioengineering
Neuro-electronics
Neurophysiology
B. Sriram Shastry
- Title
- Distinguished Professor of Physics
- Department
- Physics Department
- Phone 831-459-5849
- Website
- Office Location
- Interdisciplinary Sciences Building, 214 ISB
Sergey Syzranov
- Title
- Assistant Professor
- Department
- Physics Department
- Phone 831-459-2326
- Website
- Office Location
- Interdisciplinary Sciences Building, 218 ISB
Myriam Telus
- Title
- Assistant Professor
- Department
- Earth & Planetary Sciences Department
- Phone 831-502-8784
- Website
- Office Location
- Earth & Marine Sciences, A232
Jairo Velasco Jr.
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Department
- Physics Department
- Phone 831-459-1806
- Website
- Office Location
- Interdisciplinary Sciences Building, 249 ISB
Xiao Wang
- Title
- Assistant Professor
- Department
- Chemistry & Biochemistry Department
- Phone 831-459-2606
- Website
- Office Location
- Physical Sciences Building, PSB 350
- Summary of Expertise
Quantum Chemistry, Computational Materials Chemistry, Electronic Structure Theory
Quentin Williams
- Title
- Distinguished Professor
- Department
- Earth & Planetary Sciences Department
- Phone 831-459-3132
- Website
- Office Location
- Earth & Marine Sciences, A212
- Summary of Expertise
Mineral Physics, Experimental Geochemistry
Aiming Yan
- Title
- Assistant Professor
- Department
- Physics Department
- Phone 831-459-1806
- Website
- Office Location
- UC Santa Cruz Westside Research Park, A170
Ali Yanik
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Department
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Crown College
- Phone 831-459-3491
- Website
- Office Location
- Jack Baskin Engineering Building, E-mail (yanik@ucsc.edu)
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Electrical Engineering, Optics, Biotechnology, Bioengineering, Viruses and Microbes, Neuroscience, Material Science, Solid State Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Computational Modeling
Jin Zhang
- Title
- Distinguished Professor
- Department
- Chemistry & Biochemistry Department
- Phone 831-459-3776 (Office), 831-459-3912 (Lab)
- Website
- Office Location
- Physical Sciences Building, 152
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Chemistry
- Summary of Expertise
Design, synthesis, characterization, and application of nanomaterials, including semiconductor and metal nanoparticles; femtosecond laser spectroscopy; ultrafast dynamics of nanomaterials; cancer Read more ...