Faculty | Materials Science Graduate Program | The University of Vermont(title)

Program Director

Rory Waterman

Professor — Inorganic, Organometallic, and Catalysis • Material Science Program Director

Rory.Waterman@uvm.edu (802) 656-0278

Synthetic and mechanistic inorganic/organometallic chemistry, catalysis, energy, professional development

Faculty Directory

Appala Raju Badireddy

Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Water Quality Engineering, Membrane Separation Processes, Resource Recovery from Solid- and Liquid-Waste, Environmental Photochemistry

raju.badireddy@uvm.edu (802) 656-8443

Dennis Clougherty

Professor, Department of Physics

Theoretical condensed matter physics

Dennis.Clougherty@uvm.edu (802) 656-0063

Amber Doiron

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering • Graduate Program Director

Biomaterials, Nanotechnology, Drug Delivery, Molecular Imaging, Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

amber.doiron@uvm.edu (802) 656-3382

Yves Dubief

Associate Professor • Department of Mechanical Engineering

Fluid mechanics, Turbulence, Incompressible and compressible flows, non-Newtonian flows, Numerical simulation

ydubief@uvm.edu (802) 656-9830

Douglas Fletcher

Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering • Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Laser diagnostics of compressible flows, reacting flows, and plasmas. Aerothermodynamics of planetary entry.

dfletche@uvm.edu (802) 656-9863

Rachael Floreani

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Materials customization, tissue engineering, polymer chemistry, food biotechnology

floreani@uvm.edu

Madalina Furis

Adjunct Professor, Department of Physics

Experimental studies of condensed matter physics.

Madalina.Furis@uvm.edu (802) 656-5177

Randall Headrick

Professor, Department of Physics • Department Chair

Experimental studies of condensed matter Physics & Materials Science.

Rheadrick@uvm.edu (802) 656-0048

Valeri Kotov

Professor, Department of Physics

Theoretical studies of condensed matter physics.

Valeri.Kotov@uvm.edu (802) 656-4548

Christopher C. Landry

Professor — Inorganic and Materials Chemistry

Synthesis and studies on porous inorganic nanomaterials, heterogeneous catalysis, nanomedicine, and preparation of nano-bioconjugates.

Christopher.Landry@uvm.edu (802) 656-0270

Jianing Li

Executive Committee Member

Wei Li

Assistant Professor

Jihong Ma

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Atomistic Simulations, Dynamics, Phononic Crystals, Topological States of Matter, Polymer Science, Nanoscale Heat Transfer

Jihong.Ma@uvm.edu

David Punihaole

Assistant Professor - Analytical Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Biophysical Chemistry

Analytical Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Biophysics, Raman Spectroscopy, Stimulated Raman Imaging, Advanced Biological Microscopy Technique Development, Neurodegenerative diseases, Protein Folding, Characterization of Polymer/Nanoparticle Drug and Gene Delivery.

David.Punihaole@uvm.edu (802) 656-2329

Michael Ruggiero

Gund Affiliate, Associate Professor of Chemistry • Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Rochester

Vibrational spectroscopy, computational modelling, advanced materials, toxic chemical removal, microplastic degradation.

michael.ruggiero@rochester.edu

Frederic Sansoz

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering • ASME Fellow

Science and Engineering of Nanostructured Materials, Small-scale Mechanics, Atomistic Simulation and Multiscale Modeling

frederic.sansoz@uvm.edu (802) 656-3837

Linda S. Schadler

Dean, College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences

  • Polymer Composites

Linda.Schadler@uvm.edu

Severin Schneebeli

Adjunct Associate Professor • Department of Chemistry

Organic synthesis, Supramolecular chemistry, Polymer chemistry, Theoretical/computational chemistry

Severin.Schneebeli@uvm.edu (802) 656-0252

Matthew White

Associate Professor, Department of Physics

Hybrid and organic photovoltaic device physics.

mwhite25@uvm.edu (802) 656-0064

Junru Wu

Faculty Member • In Memoriam

Tian Xia

Professor • Department of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering

Mixed Signal Circuit Design and Test, Adaptive Multifunctional Integrated Circuit Design, Reconfigurable Computing

txia@uvm.edu (802) 656-8996