People and Partners
Leadership
Thomas H. Epps, III
PI and Director
Professor, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering
University of Delaware
LaShanda Korley
Co-PI and Co-Director
Professor, Materials Science & Engineering and Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
University of Delaware
Gwendolyn Gregory, PhD, MBA
Executive Director
University of Delaware
Coordination Leads
Darrin Pochan
Co-Director of IRG 1
Professor, Materials Science & Engineering (MSEG)
University of Delaware
April Kloxin
Co-Director of IRG 1
Associate Professor, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering (CBE) and MSEG
University of Delaware
Joshua Zide
Co-Director of IRG 2
Professor, MSEG
University of Delaware
Matt Doty
Co-Director of IRG 2, Facilities Director
Professor, MSEG
University of Delaware
Julius Korley, PhD, MBA
Technology Management Director
Zach Stillman, PhD
Education Director
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
April Kloxin
Professor
CBE & MSEG
University of Delaware
Co-Director of IRG 1
Jeffery Saven
Professor
Chemistry (CHEM)
University of Pennsylvania
Eric Bloch
Associate Professor
Chemistry & Biochemistry (CHEM)
University of Delaware
Paul Butler
Staff Scientist
Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Thomas Epps, III
Professor
CBE and MSE
University of Delaware
MRSEC Director
Xinqiao Jia
Professor
MSEG, BMEG, Biological Sciences (BISC)
University of Delaware
Kristi Kiick
Professor
MSEG, BMEG, BISC
University of Delaware
LaShanda Korley
Professor
MSEG and CBE
University of Delaware
MRSEC Co-Director
Christopher Kloxin
Associate Professor
MSEG and CBE
Director of Center for Click Chemistry
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
Benjamin Jungfleisch
Assistant Professor
PHYS
University of Delaware
Lars Gundlach
Associate Professor
CHEM and PHYS
University of Delaware
Anderson Janotti
Associate Professor
MSEG
University of Delaware
Stephanie Law
Associate Professor
MSEG
University of Delaware
Garnett Bryant
Group Leader, Atomic-Scale Device Group
Fellow, Joint Quantum Institute
Nanoscale Device Characterization Division and Joint Quantum Institute, National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST)
Xi Wang
Assistant Professor
MSEG
University of Delaware
IRG2 Seed
Thomas Searles
Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois – Chicago
IRG2 Seed
Mark Ku
Assistant Professor
PHYS and MSEG
University of Delaware
IRG2 Seed
Chitro Chakraborty
Assistant Professor
MSEG and PHYS
University of Delaware
IRG2 Seed
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 |