**Siu-Wai Chan, Materials Science and Engineering**
Metal oxides, crystal-size-related structural changes and properties in nanoparticles, thin films, grain boundaries and interfaces as well as their corresponding electrical properties
**Oleg Gang, Applied Physics**
Soft matter physics; programmable self-assembly of nanoscale systems; soft and biomaterials with tailored functions
**Irving P. Herman, Applied Physics**
Nanocrystals, optical spectroscopy of nanostructured materials, laser diagnostics of thin film processing, mechanical properties of nanomaterials
**Chris A. Marianetti, Materials Science and Engineering**
Predicting materials properties from first-principles computations; materials with energy related applications; density-functional theory; dynamical mean-field theory; transition-metal oxides; actinides, energy storage and conversion materials
**Michael Weinstein, Applied Mathematics**
Partial Differential Equations, applied analysis, dynamical systems, waves and multiscale phenomena in inhomogeneous, nonlinear and random media
**Renata Wentzcovitch, Materials Science/Applied Physics**
Computational materials physics, simulation of matter at extreme conditions, mineral physics
**Yuan Yang, Materials Science and Engineering**
Developing nanostructured materials for batteries and thermal management
**Xueyue (Sherry) Zhang, Applied Physics**
Quantum devices and their applications, superconducting qubits, solid state spins, quantum light-matter interaction, metamaterials, quantum many-body dynamics, topological photonics, quantum information, quantum networking