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Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
Personnel
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 The MRSEC is administered through Brown
University's Center for Advanced Materials Research
(CAMR), which handles major block
grants in materials science at Brown. The MRSEC is operated under
the direction of a Steering Committee, chaired by Professor William A. Curtin. Other members of the Steering Committee are Professors Eric
Chason, Allan Bower and L. Ben Freund. All faculty working on
MRSEC related research are listed below.
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An
External
Advisory Board is seated to help support and shape the
directions of the MRSEC and its operating procedures. The six
member Board, which is appointed by Brown President, consists of
scientist in the field of Materials or Mechanical Engineering. The
Board visits Brown approximately once each year, or as needed.
The
Technical and Support staff directly involved in the MRSEC are
personnel of the Division of Engineering or Center for Advanced
Materials Research. The staff supports the MRSEC as well as their
remaining responsibilities, including teaching, within their
departmental positions. This has proved to afford the scientific
community at Brown the expertise of qualified, interested, and well
rounded staff, who are ready to handle a changing research
activity. The
Division of
Engineering and Center for Advanced Materials Research have
central facility and administrative staff who also indirectly
support this MRSEC.
Recent Ph.D.
recipients and postdoctoral associates graduating with MRSEC
support, with placement, are also listed.
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Faculty J.
Roderic Beresford
Professor, Electrical Sciences and Computer Engineering
Ph.D., Columbia University Janet A. Blume
Associate Professor, Solid Mechanics
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology Allan
F. Bower
Associate Professor, Solid Mechanics
Ph.D., University of Cambridge
Eric H. Chason
Associate Professor, Materials Science
Ph.D., Harvard University
Gregory
P. Crawford
Assistant Professor, Electrical Sciences
Ph.D., Kent State University
William A. Curtin
Professor, Solid Mechanics
Ph.D., Cornell University L. Ben Freund
Professor, Solid Mechanics
Ph.D., Northwestern University
Huajian Gao
Professor, Solid Mechanics
Ph.D., Harvard University
Pradeep R. Guduru
Assistant Professor, Solid Mechanics
Ph.D.,
California Institute of Technology
Kyung-Suk Kim
Professor, Solid Mechanics
Ph.D., Brown University K. Sharvan Kumar
Professor, Materials Science
Ph.D, Drexel University
Jeffrey R. Morgan
Professor,
Medical Science and Engineering
Division of Biology and Medicine,
Ph.D,
Harvard University
Alan Needleman
Professor, Solid Mechanics
Ph. D., Harvard University David C. Paine
Associate Professor, Materials Science
Ph.D., Stanford University
Thomas R. Powers
Assistant Professor, Solid Mechanics
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Janet Rankin
Associate Professor, Materials Science
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Brian W. Sheldon
Associate Professor, Materials Science
Sc.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Vivek B. Shenoy
Assistant Professor, Solid Mechanics
Ph.D., Ohio State University
Jay X. Tang
Assistant Professor, Physics
Ph.D.,
Brandeis University
Alexander Zaslavsky
Associate Professor, Electrical Science
Ph.D., Princeton University top of page
External Advisory Board Dr. James
M. E. Harper,
Manager, Thin Film Metallury and Interconnections
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Dr. Linda L. Horton,
Associate Division Director, Metals and Ceramics Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Dr. Joop Nagtegaal,
Vice-President, Code Development
Hibbitt, Karlsson & Sorensen, Inc.
Dr. Alan I. Taub,
Director of Science
General Motors
Dr. Julia R. Weertman,
Walter P. Murphy Professor, Dept. of Materials Sci. & Engineering
Northwestern University
Dr. Egon Wolff,
Manager of Research, Advanced Materials and Technology
Caterpillar, Inc. top of page
Technical and Support Staff
Christopher Bull
Senior Research Engineer, Division of Engineering Ann L.
Caffrey
Administrative Assistant, Center for Advanced Materials Research
Patricia Capece
Coordinating Technical Secretary, Division of Engineering
Peggy Mercurio
Coordinating Technical Secretary, Division of Engineering
Lisa Mildner
Administrative Assistant, Center for Advanced Materials Research
Lorayn Palumbo
Technical Secretary, Division of Engineering Sue C.
Prendergast
Manager, Center for Advanced Materials Research Brian
Corkum
Senior Technical Assistant, Division of Engineering
Anthony McCormick
Senior Research Engineer, Division of Engineering
Reese Webb
Senior Technical Assistant, Division of Engineering top of page
Recent Ph.D. Recipients and Postdoctoral Associates
Lucine Reinbold Kabakian completed requirements for the Ph.D. Her thesis is entitled “Kinetics of Interfacial Reaction and Stress Evolution in Bimetallic Cu-Sn Thin Films“. Dr. Kabakian is now working as a Senior Systems Engineer for Raytheon in Portsmouth, RI.
Burag Yaglioglu completed requirements for the PhD. His thesis is entitled “Electrical and Structural Characterization of IZO Thin Films for Device Applications”. Dr. Yaglioglu is now a post-doc at MIT.
Guohua Wang completed the requirements for the PhD in Physics. His thesis is entitled “The Physics of Inhomogeneous Straininduced SiGe Quantun Rings and Ellipses”. Dr. Wang is working in the semiconductor industry in China.
Tai Hee Hun completed requirements for the Ph.D. Dr. Hun is a Post-Doc in the Superlattice Nanomaterials Lab.
Ram Hariharaputran (post-doctoral research associate). Dr. Hariharaputran is working in Singapore for a high performance computing center.
Harsh Kumar, Postdoctoral Research Assiciate(Advisor: Curtin).
Dr. Kumar is now at a hedge fund in New York.
Brian Perkins (Advisor: Zaslavsky).
Dr. Perkins is now a member of the technical staff at AMD in Boxborough, MA.
Guanghao Xiao (Advisor: Briant).
Dr. Xiao is now studying business at the University of Akron
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