Affiliated Faculty

Affiliated faculty for the MSEI are affiliated with the Departments of Physics, Chemistry, and Earth & Planetary Sciences in the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Baskin School of Engineering.

David Lederman

  • Title
    • Professor
    • Director, Materials Science & Engineering Initiative
  • Department
    • Physics Department
  • Phone
    831-459-1217
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Interdisciplinary Sciences Building, 212 ISB
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Solid State Physics, Material Science, Physics, Applied Physics
  • Summary of Expertise
    1. Magnetic nanostructures and interfaces
    2. Multiferroic and magnetoelectric materials and interfaces
    3. Topological insulators
    4. Bioelectronics
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Shiva Abbaszadeh

  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Department
    • Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Phone
    831-459-4929
  • Email
  • 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 ...

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Aris Alexandradinata

  • Title
    • Assistant Professor
  • Department
    • Physics Department
  • Phone
    831-459-2824
  • Email
  • 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.

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Alexander L. Ayzner

  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Department
    • Chemistry & Biochemistry Department
  • Phone
    831-459-5878 (Office), 831-502-8187 (Lab)
  • Email
  • 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 ...

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Ryan Baumbach

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David Belanger

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Department
    • Physics Department
  • Phone
    831-459-2871
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Interdisciplinary Sciences Building, 245 ISB
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Physics
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Ilan Benjamin

  • Title
    • Distinguished Professor
  • Department
    • Chemistry & Biochemistry Department
  • Phone
    831-459-3152 (Office), 831-459-3435 (Lab)
  • Email
  • 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 ...

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Frank G Bridges

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Sue A Carter

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Department
    • Graduate Studies Division
    • Physics Department
  • Phone
    831-331-1050
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Nat Sci 2 Main Building, 349 Nat Sci II
  • Summary of Expertise

    Renewable Energy, Sustainable Systems, Optoelectronics

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Shaowei Chen

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Department
    • Chemistry & Biochemistry Department
  • Phone
    831-459-5841 (Office), 831-459-1892 (Lab)
  • Email
  • 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 ...

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Joshua Deutsch

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Department
    • Physics Department
  • Phone
    831-459-2265
  • Email
  • 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
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Peter Fischer

  • Title
    • Adjunct Professor
  • Department
    • Physics Department
  • Phone
    831-459-5324 (office), 925-395-7846 (cell)
  • Email
  • 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 ...

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Hendrik Ohldag

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Nobby Kobayashi

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Yat Li

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Department
    • Chemistry & Biochemistry Department
  • Phone
    831-459-1952 (Office), 831-502-7363 (Lab)
  • Email
  • 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

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Onuttom Narayan

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Department
    • Physics Department
  • Phone
    831-459-4123
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Interdisciplinary Sciences Building, 241 ISB
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Scott Oliver

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Department
    • Chemistry & Biochemistry Department
  • Phone
    831-459-5448 (Office), 831-459-4225 (Lab), 831-459-2892 (X-ray Lab)
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Physical Sciences Building, 162
  • 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

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Michael Mikio Oye

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Yuan Ping

  • Title
    • Adjunct Associate Professor
  • Department
    • Physics Department
  • Email
  • 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 ...

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Arthur P Ramirez

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Marco A Rolandi

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Sujoy Roy

  • Title
    • Dr.
  • Department
    • Physics Department
  • Phone
    831-459-3744
  • Email
  • Office Location
    • Interdisciplinary Sciences Building, 256
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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
  • Email
  • 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 ...

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Tal Sharf

  • Title
    • Assistant Professor
  • Department
    • Biomolecular Engineering
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • UC Santa Cruz Westside Research Park, Genomics Institute
  • Summary of Expertise

    Applied Physics

    Neuroscience

    Bioengineering

    Neuro-electronics

    Neurophysiology

     

     

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B. Sriram Shastry

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Sergey Syzranov

  • Title
    • Assistant Professor
  • Department
    • Physics Department
  • Phone
    831-459-2326
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Interdisciplinary Sciences Building, 218 ISB
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Myriam Telus

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Jairo Velasco Jr.

  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Department
    • Physics Department
  • Phone
    831-459-1806
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Interdisciplinary Sciences Building, 249 ISB
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Xiao Wang

  • Title
    • Assistant Professor
  • Department
    • Chemistry & Biochemistry Department
  • Phone
    831-459-2606
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Physical Sciences Building, PSB 350
  • Summary of Expertise

    Quantum Chemistry, Computational Materials Chemistry, Electronic Structure Theory

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Quentin Williams

  • Title
    • Distinguished Professor
  • Department
    • Earth & Planetary Sciences Department
  • Phone
    831-459-3132
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Earth & Marine Sciences, A212
  • Summary of Expertise

    Mineral Physics, Experimental Geochemistry

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Aiming Yan

  • Title
    • Assistant Professor
  • Department
    • Physics Department
  • Phone
    831-459-1806
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • UC Santa Cruz Westside Research Park, A170
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Ali Yanik

  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Department
    • Electrical and Computer Engineering
    • Crown College
  • Phone
    831-459-3491
  • Email
  • 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
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Jin Zhang

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