
Below is an alphabetical list of faculty who are members of the MSE Graduate Group. Our graduate group faculty have research activities across many areas of materials and are from schools throughout Penn, including Penn Engineering and the School of arts and Sciences. By clicking the name of the faculty member, you can view their profile information.
For faculty listings sorted by research topic, or to learn more about each area of research, please visit the MSE Research Areas page. To see only faculty with academic appointments within the department of Materials Science and Engineering, visit our departmental faculty page.
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| Name | Faculty Rank | Primary Department | Research Area(s) |
| Agarwal, Ritesh | Associate Professor | Materials Science and Engineering | Chemistry of Materials | Electron Microscopy | Electronic and Optical Properties | Energy | Nanostructured Materials | Physics of Materials | Semiconductors |
| Bassani, John L. | Professor | Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics | Chemistry of Materials | Materials Theory and Modeling | Mechanical Behavior | Metals | Nanostructured Materials | Physics of Materials | Surfaces & Interfaces |
| Bonnell, Dawn | Professor | Materials Science and Engineering | Biomaterials | Ceramics | Electronic and Optical Properties | Materials Theory and Modeling | Nanostructured Materials | Physics of Materials | Scanning Probe Microscopy | Semiconductors | Surfaces & Interfaces |
| Carpick, Robert | Professor | Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics | Ceramics | Energy | Mechanical Behavior | Metals | Nanostructured Materials | Physics of Materials | Scanning Probe Microscopy | Surfaces & Interfaces |
| Chen, I-Wei | Professor | Materials Science and Engineering | Biomaterials | Ceramics | Chemistry of Materials | Electronic and Optical Properties | Mechanical Behavior | Nanostructured Materials | Polymers | Surfaces & Interfaces |
| Composto, Russell | Professor | Materials Science and Engineering | Biomaterials | Chemistry of Materials | Materials Theory and Modeling | Mechanical Behavior | Nanostructured Materials | Physics of Materials | Polymers | Scanning Probe Microscopy | Surfaces & Interfaces | X-Ray & Neutron Scattering |
| Davies, Peter K. | Professor | Materials Science and Engineering | Ceramics | Chemistry of Materials | Electron Microscopy | Electronic and Optical Properties | Energy | Nanostructured Materials | X-Ray & Neutron Scattering |
| Gianola, Daniel | Assistant Professor | Materials Science and Engineering | Nanotubes and Nanowires | Electron Microscopy | Energy | Mechanical Behavior | Metals | Nanostructured Materials | X-Ray & Neutron Scattering |
| Gorte, Raymond J. | Professor | Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering | Ceramics | Chemistry of Materials | Energy | Surfaces & Interfaces |
| Johnson, A.T. Charlie | Professor | Physics | Nanotubes and Nanowires | Electron Microscopy | Nanostructured Materials |
| Kagan, Cherie R. | Professor | Electrical and Systems Engineering | Nanotubes and Nanowires | Chemistry of Materials | Electronic and Optical Properties | Energy | Nanostructured Materials | Physics of Materials | Polymers | Semiconductors | Surfaces & Interfaces |
| Khantha, Mahadevan | Senior Lecturer | Materials Science and Engineering | Nanotubes and Nanowires | Materials Theory and Modeling | Mechanical Behavior | Metals | Nanostructured Materials | Physics of Materials | Semiconductors | Surfaces & Interfaces |
| Li, Ju | Adjunct Professor | Materials Science and Engineering | Biomaterials | Energy | Materials Theory and Modeling | Mechanical Behavior | Metals | Nanostructured Materials | Physics of Materials |
| McMahon, Charles | Professor Emeritus | Materials Science and Engineering | Mechanical Behavior | Metals | Surfaces & Interfaces |
| Murray, Christopher B. | Professor | Materials Science and Engineering | Nanotubes and Nanowires | Ceramics | Chemistry of Materials | Electron Microscopy | Electronic and Optical Properties | Energy | Metals | Nanostructured Materials | X-Ray & Neutron Scattering |
| Pope, David | Professor | Materials Science and Engineering | Mechanical Behavior | Metals | Nanostructured Materials | Surfaces & Interfaces |
| Rappe, Andrew | Professor | Chemistry | Ceramics | Chemistry of Materials | Electronic and Optical Properties | Energy | Materials Theory and Modeling | Nanostructured Materials | Physics of Materials | X-Ray & Neutron Scattering |
| Shenoy, Vivek | Professor | Materials Science and Engineering | Biomaterials | Energy | Materials Theory and Modeling | Mechanical Behavior | Metals | Nanostructured Materials | Physics of Materials | Surfaces and Interfaces |
| Srolovitz, David | Professor | Materials Science and Engineering | Energy | Materials Theory and Modeling | Mechanical Behavior | Metals | Nanostructured Materials | Physics of Materials | Surfaces and Interfaces |
| Vitek, Vaclav | Professor | Materials Science and Engineering | Materials Theory and Modeling | Mechanical Behavior | Metals | Nanostructured Materials | Physics of Materials | Surfaces & Interfaces |
| Winey, Karen | Professor | Materials Science and Engineering | Biomaterials | Nanotubes and Nanowires | Chemistry of Materials | Electron Microscopy | Mechanical Behavior | Nanostructured Materials | Physics of Materials | Polymers | X-Ray & Neutron Scattering |
| Yang, Shu | Associate Professor | Materials Science and Engineering | Biomaterials | Chemistry of Materials | Electronic and Optical Properties | Nanostructured Materials | Polymers | Surfaces & Interfaces |
| Yildirim, Taner | Adjunct Professor | Materials Science and Engineering | Nanotubes and Nanowires | Energy | Materials Theory and Modeling | Nanostructured Materials | Physics of Materials | X-Ray & Neutron Scattering |