People and Partners
Leadership
Thomas H. Epps, III
PI and Director
Professor, MSE & CBE
University of Delaware
thepps@udel.edu
LaShanda Korley
Co-PI and Co-Director
Professor, MSE & CBE
University of Delaware
lkorley@udel.edu
Gwendolyn Gregory, PhD, MBA
Executive Director
University of Delaware
gregoryg@udel.edu
Coordination Leads
Darrin Pochan
Co-Director of IRG 1
Professor, MSE
University of Delaware
pochan@udel.edu
April Kloxin
Co-Director of IRG 1
Associate Professor, CBE & MSE
University of Delaware
akloxin@udel.edu
Joshua Zide
Co-Director of IRG 2
Professor, MSE
University of Delaware
zide@udel.edu
Matt Doty
Co-Director of IRG 2, Facilities Director
Professor, MSE
University of Delaware
doty@udel.edu
TBD
Education Director
University of Delaware
Thrust Teams
IRG 1: Peptide Active Materials (PAMs)
Computationally designed peptides for targeted nanostructures, motion, and simple machines
Computational Design – Modeling
Molecule Synthesis
Molecule Assembly
Structure & Properties
Darrin Pochan
Co-Director of IRG 1
Professor, MSE
University of Delaware
pochan@udel.edu
April Kloxin
Co-Director of IRG 1
Professor, CBE & MSE
University of Delaware
akloxin@udel.edu
Jeffery Saven
Professor, CHEM
University of Pennsylvania
saven@sas.upenn.edu
Eric Bloch
Associate Professor, CHEM
University of Delaware
Paul Butler
Thomas Epps, III
MRSEC Director
Professor, CBE & MSE
University of Delaware
thepps@udel.edu
Joseph Fox
Professor, CHEM
University of Delaware
jmfox@udel.edu
Eric Furst
Professor, CBE
University of Delaware
furst@udel.edu
Xinqiao Jia
Professor, MSE, BME, & BISC
University of Delaware
xjia@udel.edu
Kristi Kiick
Professor, MSE, BME, & BISC
University of Delaware
kiick@udel.edu
Christopher Kloxin
Director of UD3C
Associate Professor, MSE & CBE
University of Delaware
cjk@udel.edu
LaShanda Korley
MRSEC Co-Director
Professor, MSE & CBE
University of Delaware
lkorley@udel.edu
IRG 2: Hybrid Quantum Materials with Emergent Terahertz Functionalities (HQ-METs)
Understanding and controlling interfaces and transduction to create hybrid materials with emergent THz functionalities
Growth
Theory/Design
Characterizations
Joshua Zide
Co-Director of IRG 2
Chair, MSE
University of Delaware
zide@udel.edu
Matthew Doty
Co-Director of IRG 2, Facilities Director
Professor, MSE
University of Delaware
doty@udel.edu
Lars Gundlach
Associate Professor, CHEM & PHYS
University of Delaware
larsg@udel.edu
Anderson Janotti
Associate Professor, MSEG
University of Delaware
janotti@udel.edu
Benjamin Jungfleisch
Assistant Professor, PHYS
University of Delaware
mbj@udel.edu
Stephanie Law
Associate Professor, MSE
University of Delaware
slaw@udel.edu
Branislav Nikolic
Professor, PHYS
University of Delaware
bnikolic@udel.edu
Xi Wang
IRG2 Seed
Assistant Professor, MSE
University of Delaware
wangxi@udel.edu
Thomas Searles
IRG2 Seed
Associate Professor, ECE
University of Illinois – Chicago
tsearles@uic.edu
Mark Ku
IRG2 Seed
Assistant Professor, MSE & PHYS
University of Delaware
mku@udel.edu
Chitro Chakraborty
IRG2 Seed
Assistant Professor, MSE & PHYS
University of Delaware
cchakrab@udel.edu
Department Abbreviations
BISC – Biological Sciences
BME – Biomedical Engineering
CBE – Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
CHEM – Chemistry & Biochemistry
ECE – Electrical & Computer Engineering
MSE – Materials Science & Engineering
PHYS – Physics & Astronomy
Education and Outreach Partners
Tatiana Poladko
Founder, TeenSHARP
Cherese Winstead
Dean, College of Agriculture, Science and Technology (CAST), Delaware State University
Arezue Boroujerdi
Assistant Professor, Chemistry, Claflin University
Derrick Swinton
Associate Dean, New Jersey Center for Science, Technology and Mathematics (NCSTM), Kean University
Susan Giancola
Senior Associate Director, Delaware Center for Research and Education in Social Policy (CRESP)
Internal and External Advisory Boards
Internal Advisory Board (IAB)
COE – College of Engineering; CAS – College of Arts & Sciences
| Kelvin Lee | Vice President for Research, Scholarship and Innovation |
| Mark Mirotznik | Associate Dean for Research and Entrepreneurship, COE |
| Murray Johnston | Associate Dean for Natural Sciences, CAS |
| Jill Higginson | Associate Dean for Graduate and Post Graduate Education, COE |
| LaRuth McAfee | Senior Assistant Dean, Graduate College |
| Dion Vlachos | Director of DE Energy Institute |
| Marianthi Ierapetritou | Gore Centennial Professor at UD and former Associate VP for Promotion of Women in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics at Rutgers U., COE |
| Edward Nowak | Chairperson for Department of Physics & Astronomy, CAS |
External Advisory Board (EAB)
| Rachel Segalman | IRG Co-Director, polymers and peptoids, UCSB |
| Christine Luscombe | IRG Co-Director and ED, semi-conducting polymers, U. of WA; Professor, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) |
| Kathleen Stebe | Deputy Dean, surface and colloid science, Research MRSEC Member U. Penn |
| Edward Yu | MRSEC Director, solid-state electronics, U. of Texas – Austin |
| Dan Ralph | IRG Co-Director, spin manipulation, Cornell U. |
| Derrick Swinton | Associate Dean, New Jersey Center for Science, Technology and Mathematics (NCSTM), Kean University (KU) |
| Cherese Winstead | Dean, CAST, DE State U. (DSU) |
| Eric Lin | Director of the Material Measurement Laboratory, NIST |
| Scott Wasserman | Associate R&D Director & Intellectual Capital Manager, Dow Chemical; UD Affiliated Professor in Chemical & Biomolecular Eng.; Co-teaches (CHEG 600/MSEG 630 with Epps/A. Kloxin) |
| Christoph Weder | Executive Director & Professor, functional polymers, Adolph Merkle Institute at the University of Fribourg; International PI of NSF PIRE with L. Korley |
| Jan Vermant | Head of Department, colloidal suspensions, experimental methods development, ETH Zürich, Dept. Of Materials |