| Paul C.W. Chu | Wei-Kan Chu | Allan Jacobson |
| Arnold Guloy | David Hoffman | Demetre Economou |
| Alex Ignatiev | Milko Iliev | Dan Luss |
| Charles Mims | Simon Moss | Scott Perry |
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UH Positions: Robert A. Welch Chair of Science; Professor of Chemistry;
Director, MRSEC-UH; Division Coordinator, Advanced Material Intiatives and
Task Leader, Solid State Chemistry Lab, TCSUH
Ph.D. Information: New College, Oxford, 1969, Chemistry, Advisor:
B. F. Fender
Position Prior to UH: Sr. Res. Asso., Corp. Res. Labs, Exxon Research
& Engineering Co., Annandale, NJ; Fellow, Keble College, Oxford, 1970-1976
Research Interests: Solid state inorganic chemistry; synthesis and
structural characterization of new compounds, particularly oxides; intercalation
chemistry; oxide ion conductivity
Address: Chemistry
Attn: Allan Jacobson
University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204-5932
Phone:713-743-2785, Fax: 713-743-2787, E-mail: ajjacob@uh.edu, Dr. Jacobson's Research Group www.uh.edu/~chem8p
DAVID HOFFMAN
UH Positions: Associate Professor of Chemistry; Deputy Director,
MRSEC-UH
Ph.D. Information: Cornell University, 1982, Chemistry, Advisor:
Roald Hoffmann
Position Prior to UH: Harvard University, Assistant & Associate
Professor of Chemistry (1984-1990)
Research Interests: Preparation of transition metal and main group
oxide thin films from metal-organic precursors; materials chemistry; synthesis
of inorganic and organo metallic compounds
Address:
Chemistry
Attn: David Hoffman
University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204-5641
Phone: 713-743-3255, Fax: 713-743-2709, E-mail: hoffman@uh.edu
UH Positions: T.L.L. Temple Chair of Science; Professor of Physics;
Director, TCSUH; and Task Leader, High Pressure, Low Temperature Lab and
HTS Wire & Large Grain Growth Lab, TCSUH
Ph.D. Information: UC San Diego, 1968, Physics, Advisor: Bernd T.
Matthias
Position Prior to UH: Professor of Physics, Cleveland State University
(1975-1979)
Research Interests: Superconductivity, Magnetism, Ferroelectricity
Address: TCS
Attn: Ching-Wu Chu
University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204-5932
Phone:713-743-8200, Fax:713-743-8201, E-mail: cwchu@uh.edu
UH Positions: Distinguished University Professor of Physics; Program
Participant, MRSEC-UH; Deputy Director for Research, Coordinator, HTS Application
Division Task Leader, Ion Beam Processing & Characterization Lab, and
Task Leader, HTS Levitation Applications Lab, TCSUH
Ph.D. Information: Baylor, 1969, Physics, Advisor: Darden Powers
Position Prior to UH: Research Professor of Physics, Univ. of North
Carolina at Chappel Hill (1981-1988)
Research Interests: Ion Beam Modificiation of Materials; Ion Beam
Characterization of MaterialsApplied High Temperature Superconductivity
research and development, particularly in the development of hybrid HTS
magnetic bearings and their applications in flywheels for energy storage
and vibration isolators for lunar telescopes and STM
Address: TCS
Attn: Wei-Kan Chu
University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204-5932
Phone:713-743-8250, Fax:713-743-8201, E-mail: wkchu@uh.edu
UH Positions: John and Rebecca Moores Professo;, Associate Chairman
of Chemical Engineering; Director, Plasma
Processing Laboratory
Ph.D. Information: Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(1986)
Research Interests: Dr. Economoušs research focuses on plasma science
and technology as applied to (a) etching and deposition of thin solid films
for microelectronic device fabrication, (b) environmental remediation, and (c)
surface modification of materials (e.g., biomaterials).
Address: Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Houston
4800 Calhoun Avenue
Houston, TX 77204-4792
Phone:713-743-4320, Fax:713-743-4323, E-mail: economou@uh.edu
UH Positions: Assistant Professor of Chemistry; Program Participant,
MRSEC-UH; Researcher, Solid State Chemistry Lab, TCSUH
Ph.D. Information: Iowa State University, 1992, Chemistry, Advisor:
John D. Corbett
Position Prior to UH: IBM Postdoctoral Fellow, IBM T. J. Watson Research
Center, Yorktown Heights, NY (1992-1993)
Research Interests: Solid state chemistry; Synthesis and characterization
of novel inorganic materials with unusual structures & properties; Understanding
structure-bonding-property relationships in solid state materials; Investigations
on the chemical bonding/electronic structure of polar intermetallics and
Zintl phases; Synthesis and characterization of novel low-dimensional organic-inorganic
molecular composites with unusual properties; Solid state chemistry of main
group elements
Address:
Chemistry
Attn: Arnold M Guloy
University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204-5641
Phone:713-743-2792, Fax: 713-743-2709, E-mail: aguloy@uh.edu
UH Positions: Director, Space Vacuum Epitaxy
Center; Principal Investigator, HTS Thin Film Processing Lab, Texas Center
for Superconductivity; Professor of Physics and Chemistry, University of
Houston
Ph.D. Information: Ph.D., Cornell University
(1972) Advisor: Thor Rhodin
Position Prior to UH: Research Associate, SUNY-Stony
Brook (1972-74)
Research Interests: Experimental Solid State Physics
and Chemistry; Superconductivity; Dielectrics, Ferroelectrics, Surfaces
and Interfaces; Thin Film and Superlattice Processing and Devices
MILKO
ILIEV
UH Positions: Research Professor and Task-Leader, Raman &
IR Research Laboratory, TCSUH; Researcher, MRSEC-UH
Ph.D. Information: Ph.D., University of Sofia,
Bulgaria, 1973
Position Prior to UH: 1990-1996, Head of Laboratory,
Spectroscopy of Solids, Faculty of Physics, University of Sofia
Research Interests: Optical properties of solids,
Raman spectroscopy, Superconductors
UH Positions: Cullen Professor of Chemical Engineering; Researcher,
MRSEC-UH; Sub-Task Leader, Solid State Chemistry Lab, TCSUH
Ph.D. Information: University of Minnesota, 1966, Chemical Engineering,
Advisor: Neal Amundson
Position Prior to UH: Assoc. Prof. Chem. Engineering, U Minnesota
(1969-1972)
Research Interests: Processing and kinetics of ceramic materials;
dynamics of chemically reacting systems; control of chemical reactors
Address:Chemical Engineering
University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204-4792
Phone:713-743-4305, Fax: 713-743-4323, E-mail: dluss@uh.edu
UH Positions: Professor of Chemical Eng. and Chemistry, University
of Toronto; Subcontractor, MRSEC-UH
Ph.D. Information. University of California at Berkeley, 1972, Physical
Chemistry, Advisor: R. R. Herm
Position Prior to: Research Associate, Exxon Research & Engineering
Co., Corporate Research Labs, Annandale NJ (1975-1990).
Research Interests: Heterogenous Catalysis, surface reactivity and
structure; selective oxidation fuel cells, new catalyst environments; fundamentals
of adhesion
Phone:416-978-4575, Fax:416-978-8605, E-mail: mims@ecf.utornot.ca
UH Positions: M.D. Anderson Professor of Physics; Researcher,
MRSEC-UH; Sub Task Leader, Ion Beam Processing and Characterization Lab,
TCSUH
Ph.D. Information: MIT, 1962, Physics, Advisor: B. E. Warren
Position Prior to UH: Director, Science Dept., Energy Conversion
Devices, Inc. (1970-1982)
Research Interests: X-ray and neutron scattering studies of defects,
disorder and phase transitions in solids and liquids. Both dynamic and static
phenomena are of interest and current work concentrates on surfaces, thin
films, and multilayers; C60; superconductors in both bulk crystals and thin
films; quasicrystals; glasses, complex and molecular fluids, and colloidal
systems.
Address: Physics
Attn: Simon C. Moss
University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204-5506
Phone: 713-743-3539, Fax: 713-743-3589, E-mail: smoss@uh.edu
UH Positions: Assistant Professor of Chemistry; Researcher, MRSEC-UH;
Researcher, Solid State Chemistry Lab, TCSUH
Ph.D. Information: UT Austin, 1991, Chemical Physics, Advisor: Alan
Campion
Position Prior to UH: Visiting Res. Scientist, IBM Almaden Res. Ctr.
(1993-1994; Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berekeley (1991-1994)
Research Interests: Structure, composition, and reactivity of metal
oxide surfaces ; atomic-scale characterization by scanning microscopy (STM)
and atomic force microscopy (AFM); growth and characterization of thin films;
chemical and triobological properties of hard coatings
Address: Chemistry
Attn: Scott S Perry
University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204-5641
Phone: 713-743-2715, Fax: 713-743-2709, E-mail: perry@jetson.uh.edu
UH Positions: Cullen Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Physics;
Researcher, MRSEC-UH; Sub Task Leader, Ion Beam Processing and Characterization
B, TCSUH
Ph.D. Information: Louisiana State University, 1970, Chemistry, Advisor:
Sean P. McGlynn
Position Prior to UH: Asst. Professor, Univ. of Pittsburgh, 1971-1975
Research Interests: Surface Science, ion beams, AES, XPS, SIMS, ion
scattering and recoil spectrometry, film deposition using ion beams, oxygen
interactions with surfaces
Address: Chemistry
Attn: John Wayne Rabalais
Houston, TX 77204-5641
Phone: 713-743-3282, Fax: 713-743-2709, E-mail: rabalais@uh.edu
UH Positions: Professor of Physics, University of Houston; Member, Theoretical
Material Research Laboratory, TCSUH
Ph.D. Information: Applied Physics, Stanford University, 1967, Advisor:
Marshall Sparks
Position Prior to UH: Senior Research Associate, Brookhaven National
Laboratory, 1978-1981
Research Interests: High Temperature Superconductivity; Self Organized
Critical Phenomena; Dynamics of Magnetic Systems; Deep Inelastic Neutron Scattering;
Structural Phase Transition
Address: Physics
University of Houston
Attn: George Reiter
Houston, TX 77204
Phone: 713-743-3527, E-mail: greiter@uh.edu
UH Positions: Professor of Chemical Engineering; Chairman, Dept.
of Chemical Engineering; Researcher, MRSEC-UH; : Researcher, Solid State
Chemistry Lab, TCSUH
Ph.D. Information: Rice University, 1955, Physics/Chemistry, Advisor:
Prof. W. O. Milligan (deceased) and Prof. Charles F. Squire
Position Prior to UH: Visiting Professor, School of Chem. Engineering
and Industrial Chemistry, Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (1984)
Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis and catalytic processes,
reactor engineering, catalyst preparation & characterization, catalyst
design; solar energy, solar receiver design, solar-related chem. processes;
catalytic processes for the destruction of hazardous wastes; high temperature
superconductivity and processing of ceramic superconductors; fuel cells
Phone:713-743-4324, Fax: 713-743-2709, E-mail: jtr@uh.edu
KAMEL
SALAMA
UH Positions: Professor of Materials Engineering; Director, Materials
Engineering Program, Cullen College of Engineering; Division Coordinator,
HTS Manufacturing Processes Division; Task Leader, HTS Bulk Processing and
Manufacturing Lab
Ph.D. Information: Cairo University, 1959, Mechanical Engineering,
Advisor: M. Mokhtar (Retired)
Position Prior to UH: Senior Research Scentist, Rice University,
Materials Science Department (1968-73)
Research Interests: Processing of HTS Oxides; Nondestructive Evaluation
of Metal Matrix Composites; Mechanical Behavior of Materials
Address: Mechanical Engineering
Attn: Kamel Salama
University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204-4792
Phone:713-743-4514, Fax: 713-743-4503
