Click on the name to be directed to Faculty Biographies.

Leadership Team

Greg Parsons
NC State Site Director
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering – NC State
Atomic Layer Deposition, Molecular Electronics, Nanotube Structures, Low Temperature Processing and Bio-Mimetic Molecular Photovoltaics.

Susan Trolier-McKinstry
Director
Materials Science and Engineering – Penn State
Thin- film integrated piezoelectrics and capacitors, pyroelectrics, transducers, ultrasound spectroscopy and imaging, tunable microwave dielectrics, non-linear dielectric and piezoelectric properties, reliability in thin films, low temperature processing

Clive Randall
Technical Director
Material Science and Engineering – Penn State
High temperature, and high voltage capacitors, reliability, multilayer and bulk piezoelectrics, supercapacitors, thermoelectrics, non-linear dielectrics, LTCC, microwave dielectrics, low partial pressure co-firing, interfaces

Ian Reaney
European Site Director
Materials Science and Engineering – USheffield
Solid State Chemistry of Perovskites

Administrative Staff

Faculty

Materials Science and Engineering – NC State
Research Interests:  Electrochemical interfaces, energy storage, electrocatalysis, transition metal oxides

Balke, Nina
Materials Science and Engineering – NC State
Research Interests: Atomic Force Microscopy

Boston, Rebecca
Materials Science & Engineering – UoS
Research Interests: Functional ceramics for capacitors, thermoelectrics and batteries

Materials Science and Engineering – Penn State
Research Interests: Phase field modeling of piezoelectrics, dielectrics, and electrochemical systems

Choi, Sukwon
Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering – Penn State
Research Interests: Energy Systems, Thermal/Fluid Sciences

Dabo, Ismaila
Materials Science and Engineering – Penn State
Research Interest: Energy conversion and storage, Computational materials science, Quantum and multi-scale simulations, Novel computational methods, Materials for electrochemistry, Materials for photochemistry, Spectroscopy of materials.

Materials Science and Engineering – UoS
Research Interest: Functional Materials, FE simulation, Impedance spectroscopy

Materials Science and Engineering – NC State/Carnegie Mellon
Research Interest: Point-defect equilibrium and transport in metal oxides; grain boundary and interfacial phenomena; nanomaterials; ceramic composites; and electron microscopy.

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering – NC State
Research Interest: High-K polymer capacitors, Flexible rf devices, Materials for flexible electronics

Materials Science and Engineering – UoS
Research Interest: Computational Simulation, Atomic scale simulations, functional ceramics

Textile Engineering, Chemistry and Science – NC State
Research Interest: Two-dimensional nanomaterials and their applications in batteries and fuel cells, thin-film electrochemical capacitors and their integration with textiles

Electrical and Computer Engineering – NC State
Research Interests: Power electronics and power systems

Materials Science and Engineering – NC State
Research Interests: Multiscale, atomistic and first principles simulation

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering – NC State
Research Interests: Energy storage, materials development, and electrochemistry

Jones, Jacob
Materials Science & Engineering – NC State
Research Interests: ferroelectricity, domain dynamics, x-ray diffraction and crystallography

Textile Engineering, Chemistry & Science – NC State
Research Interests: Atomic layer deposition, capacitive sensing in textiles

Operations Management, Director of Advanced Resource Efficiency Centre and Director of the Centre for Energy, Environment & Sustainability  – UoS
Research Interests: Supply Chain Management