| Name • Affiliation • E-mail |
Areas of Research Interest |
Chair: Mike Crawford
(Term expires June 2010)
DuPont
Michael.K.Crawford@usa.dupont.com |
Research staff at Central Research and Development, DuPont.
Research Interests: Structural and magnetic properties of transition metal oxides, x-rays and neutron scattering, high-Tc superconductors, infrared, Raman, and optical spectroscopy, optical lithography, physical chemistry. |
Mark Dadmun
(Term expires June 2010)
University of Tennessee
dad@utk.edu |
Professor of chemistry at the University of Tennessee – Knoxville and jointly at ORNL.
Research interests: in physical chemistry of polymers, focusing on polymer blends and nanocomposites, using SANS, spin echo, and quasielastic neutron scattering. |
Seung-Hun Lee
(Term expires June 2011)
University of Virginia
sl5eb@virginia.edu |
Professor of Physics at the University of Virginia
Research Interests: Neutron and X-ray scattering to study exotic behaviors in frustrated magnets, quantum magnets, multiferroics, and novel superconductors. |
Vice-Chair Cora Lind
(Term expires June 2011)
University of Toledo
cora.lind@utoledo.edu
|
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry at the University of Toledo
Research Interests: Solid-state chemistry, structure-property relationships, negative thermal expansion materials, transition metal sulfides, neutron and x-ray variable temperature, polymer composites, and high pressure diffraction studies. |
Emily Liu
(Term expires June 2010)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
liue@rpi.edu |
Assistant Professor at Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Research Interests: Research focuses on studying nano-materials, nuclear technology materials and biological macromolecules, using quasi-elastic, inelastic, and elastic neutron scattering. |
Flora Meilleur
(Term expires June 2010)
North Carolina State University
flora_meilleur@ncsu.edu |
Assistant Professor. Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry. North Carolina State University.
Research Interests: Research focuses on studies of enzymatic mechanisms using neutron and X-ray crystallography and virus infection using small angle neutron Scattering and neutron reflectometry. |
Ursula Perez-Salas
(Term expires June 2011)
University of Illinois-Chicago
Argonne National Laboratory
ursulaps@uic.edu
|
Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago and Assistant Physcist at Argonne National Laboratory, Materials Science Division.
Research Interests: Neutron and X-ray small angle scattering and reflectivity studies on multi-component lipid-protein-biomolecular systems. The focus is to study self assembly as it is driven by phase competition. |
Matthew Stone
(Term expires June 2011)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
stonemb@ornl.gov |
Instrument Scientist for the ARCS instrument at SNS. Neutron Scattering Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Research Interests: Inelastic neutron scattering and thermodynamic measurements of low-dimensional quantum magnets including frustrated two and three dimensional systems. Inelastic neutron scattering measurements of novel hydrogen storage media. |
Post-Doc representative:
Stephen Wilson
(Term expires June 2010)
University of California, Berkeley
stephendwilson@gmail.com |
Postdoc at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab/ University of California, Berkeley.
Current Research: Neutron scattering as a probe into critical behavior within strongly correlated electron systems. Studies of magnetism within high-Tc superconductors and within quantum spin systems. Studies of quantum criticality within heavy fermion materials. |
Patrick Woodward
(Term expires
December 2011)
Ohio State University
woodward@chemistry.ohio-state.edu |
Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Ohio State University.
Research Interests: center on studies of the links between structure, bonding and physical properties of oxide based materials. Specific interests include charge, orbital and spin ordering in transition metal oxides, half-metallic conductors, dielectric materials and transparent conductors. Advanced powder diffraction techniques are an essential part of our research effort. |
Past Chair: Igor Zaliznyak
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Zaliznyak@bnl.gov
|
Physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Research Interests: “hard” condensed matter; quantum magnetism, properties of doped Mott insulators, quantum liquids. Neutron spectroscopy and diffraction studies of spin excitations and weak ordering and quantum phase transitions in low-dimensional quantum magnets, short-range spin and charge order in doped perovskites, dynamics of quantum liquids. |
