Ashok Ajoy
Magnetic resonance and quantum sensing with applications to problems in physical chemistry; nanoscale spin dynamics; control of quantum systems
Zakaria Al Balushi
Electronic and photonic materials synthesis of compound semiconductor thin films and nanostructures using chemical vapor deposition for electronic and optoelectronic devices.
M. Reza Alam
Theoretical and Applied Fluid Dynamics, Ocean and Coastal Waves Phenomena, Ocean Renewable Energy and Nonlinear Waves
Gopala Anumanchipalli
Computational modelling and clinical translation of spoken language
technologies.
Adam Arkin
Systems and Synthetic Biology, Environmental Microbiology of Bacteria and Viruses, bioenergy, Biomedicine, Bioremediation, space
Mark Asta
Research involves the use of state-of-the-art computational tools in the modeling and design of complex materials systems for structural and energy related applications. In this context, first-principles-based atomic-scale modeling and simulation methods are applied in studies of the structural, thermodynamic and dynamic properties of bulk phases, surfaces and interfaces.
David Attwood
Partially coherent radiation at short wave-lengths, synchrotrons, undulators, x-ray lasers, processes in hot dense plasmas; x-ray optics, microscopes, and holography; application of element specific x-ray microscopy to studies in the life and physical sciences.
Lee Bernstein
Nuclear Fusion
LBNL/UCB Nuclear Data Group
Carlos J. Bustamante
Thermodynamics of small systems and its applications to both biological and non-biological systems.
Yuan Cao
Prof. Cao’s primary research
interest is in the electrical, optical, and mechanical properties of low-dimensional
materials, and how to engineer these properties and find applications for them using
cross-disiplinary approaches including nanotechnology, metamaterials, and
microelectricalmechanical systems (MEMS).
Connie Chang-Hasnain
Expertise in thin film science; IC processing, electronic materials and ion beam technology.
Daryl C. Chrzan
Computational materials science, with emphases on dislocation dynamics and the growth of thin films.
Phillip Colella
Development of new algorithms and software for partial differential equations and the application of those algorithms and software to a variety of problems in science and engineering.
Michael F. Crommie
Local electronic, magnetic, and mechanical properties of low-dimensional nanostructures.
Trevor Darrell
Environmental
monitoring using computer vision
Oscar D. Dubón, Jr.
Electronic materials processing, low-temperature molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), growth and properties of group IV alloys, synthesis of semiconductor nanostructures.
Roger W. Falcone
Quantum electronics and short wavelength coherent light sources, with applications to atomic physics, solid state physics and plasma physics.
Graham Fleming
Conversion of solar energy into chemical energy using hybrid biological nano-structured materials.
Costas P. Grigoropoulos
Micro/nanoscale transport and processing.
T. Kenneth Gustafson
Modern optics and quantum electronic techniques; non-linear phenomena; coherence in electronic materials.
Hartmut Haeffner
Quantum information applications with trapped ions such as scalable quantum computers, solid-state to AMO interfaces, quantum electronics, and quantum emulation of complex condensed matter systems.
Frances Hellman
My research group prepares and studies thin films of novel magnetic, semiconducting, and superconducting materials, particularly amorphous and multilayered materials, which are of interest to spin electronics industries and for LIGO mirror coatings.
Amy E. Herr
Micro/nanofluidics to quantify biomolecules in complex fluids; clinical and point-of-care diagnostics;electokinetic phenomena.
Peter Hosemann
Applied materials research and development including but not limited to additive manufacturing, materials properties and materials processing.
Haiyan Huang
Interface between statistics and data-rich scientific disciplines such as biology; addressing various modeling and analysis challenges from enormous high-dimensional, complex, noisy data generated from rapidly evolving biological technologies.
Ali Javey
Interdisciplinary research in nanoelectronics and nano-biotechnology.
Na Ji
We apply methods of optical physics to microscopy technologies.
Boubacar Kante
Nano-optics and composite materials
Shimon Kolkowitz
The application of nanoscale metrology with quantum sensors to materials
science, biophysics, and device engineering.
Alessandra Lanzara
Hydrogen storage in carbon materials and multifunctional solar cells.
Seung-Wuk Lee
Bioengineering approaches to design and create functional nanostructures for regenerative medicine, therapeutics, biosensing and energy generations.
Eric Yue Ma
Interaction between light and condensed matter (solids and liquids) in uncommon regimes, with an eye out for applications in sensing, human-computer interface, and mixed reality.
Roya Maboudian
Surface/Interfacial Science and Micro-/Nanosystems Technology.
Philip S. Marcus
Bifurcations and development of chaotic flows, numerical simulation of three- dimensional fluid flow, vortex dynamics, numerical algorithms for large Reynolds number flows, applications to astrophysics and geophysics.
Lane Martin
Synthesis, characterization, and utilization of complex-oxide thin-film materials including developing fundamental understanding of material function and novel routes to enhance materials performance for applications ranging from memory and logic to energy conversion and beyond.
Ali Mesbah
Learning-based analysis and control of uncertain systems, manufacturing systems, materials processing
Mohammed R. K. Mofrad
Molecular phenomena underlying cell mechanics and mechanotransduction, toward understanding their role in human disease.
Paulo Monteiro
Characterization of structural materials using synchrotron radiation
Clark Nguyen
Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) applied to radio frequency (RF) communication sensor devices.
Ahmad Omar
Our research aims to advance our theoretical understanding of both natural and synthetic soft matter systems by leveraging the tools of statistical mechanics, continuum mechanics and computer simulation.
Gabriel Orebi Gann
Instrumentation and detector development for fundamental and applied neutrino physics, including remote reactor monitoring.
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Panayiotis Papadopoulos
Theoretical and computational mechanics of solids.
Per-Olof Persson
Computational fluid and solid mechanics, high-order discontinuous Galerkin methods, fluid-structure interaction, unstructured mesh generation, adjoint-based optimization, parallel computing.
Kristin Aslaug Persson
Professor Persson is involved in several materials research areas, such as Li-ion batteries, Mg batteries, photocatalysts, etc.
Sayeef Salahuddin
Physics of nanoscale devices encompassing full spectrum of Physics, Materials Science and Electrical Engineering. Visit at: www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~sayeef.
Carl Schroeder
Research is focused on compact laser-plasma-based acceleration of electrons and ions, and the development of high brightness particle and photon sources.
Mary Scott
Computational imaging methods applied to electron microscopy.
James Sethian
Numerical solution at differential equations applied by fluid mechanics, materials sciences, and engineering.
Shawn Shadden
Physics-based Modeling and Simulation
Irfan Siddiqi
Quantum Information Science, Quantum Computing with Superconducting Circuits.
Alp Sipahigil
Quantum information devices; superconducting qubits, solid-state defects, nanomechanics, and nanophotonics; hybrid quantum systems.
Lydia L. Sohn
Developing optical or electronics-based on-chip platform technologies for single-cell analysis.
David Steigmann
Application of Continuum Mechanics to Problems in Biophysics.
Hayden Taylor
Micro and nano-fabrication processes applied to biological tissue culture; integration of diffractive optics with MEMS and microfluids for imaging and lithography.
Grigory Tikhomirov
Fabrication of electronic and medical nanoscale devices via molecular programming.
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Hendrik Utzat
Nanophotonics, quantum optics, materials synthesis, and coherent phenomena in optical nanomaterials for applications in energy and quantum information science.
Karl van Bibber
The research of my group is situated at the nexus of basic and applied nuclear, particle, accelerator, and instrumentation science, encompassing applied neutrino physics for nuclear non-proliferation, development of novel neutron sources and applications to geochronology, nuclear medicine, etc., and innovative accelerator technology and applications to heavy ion fusion and particle astrophysics.
Jasmina Vujic
Development of deterministic and Monte Carlo numerical methods in neutral particle transport, and their application in reactor design, nuclear physics, radiation detection, nuclear non-proliferation, nuclear medicine and cancer therapy.
Laura Waller
The computational imaging lab develops new optical systems that optimize hardware and computation simultaneously, for measuring optical wave-field effects (e.g. phase imaging, coherence imaging, and nonlinear optics).
Feng Wang
Laser spectroscopy, nanophotonics and plasmonics.
Hans-Rudolf Wenk
Investigate the development of preferred orientation materials using high-pressure synchrotron x-rays diffraction techniques.
K. Birgitta Whaley
Theory of atomic and molecular clusters, nanostructures, and high-energy density materials.
Jon Wilkening
Partial differential equations, spectral methods, approximation theory and optimization, with applications in fluid mechanics, solid mechanics, materials science and plasma physics.
Junqiao Wu
Nanomaterials for applications in electronics, photovoltaics, and photonics.
Jonathan Wurtele
Trapping of anti-matter; free-electron laser x-ray sources; intense laser-plasma interactions; high-energy density physics.
Ting Xu
Self-assembly of polymer, peptide, peptidomimetic and nanoparticle for functional soft materials
Eli Yablonovitch
Silicon nano-photonics, nano-electronics, plasmonics, and the development of components for quantum information processing technology.
Jie Yao
Optical Materials and Nanophotonics
Xiang Zhang
Applied physics, nano-photonics, nano-devices engineering, and novel nano-scale fabrication.
Rayne Zheng
Additive manufacturing and processes for micro-electro-mechanical system,
material processing for energy storage and transduction materials
Tarek I. Zohdi
Multiscale representation of materials.
Michael W. Zuerch
Ultrafast laser and X-ray spectroscopy, study of dynamics and correlations in quantum materials and systems of relevance to energy applications.