Adjunct and Affiliate Faculty

Adjunct Faculty

	Name & Position	Research Areas
	Scott Dunham Adjunct Professor Professor of Electrical Engineering	Modeling of integrated circuit fabrication processes, computational materials, modeling of semiconductor device behavior, modeling of fabrication and operation of microstructures.
	Vipin Kumar Adjunct Associate Professor Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering	Design and manufacturing, including product and process design, and characterization and processing of polymeric composites. Research focuses on microcellular composites.
	Buddy Ratner Adjunct Professor Professor of Bioengineering Professor of Chemical Engineering	The technological applications of biology at surfaces (biomaterials, biocompatibility, polymers, surface engineering, self-assembly, molecular recognition).
	Daniel Schwartz Adjunct Professor Professor of Chemical Engineering	Electrochemical Engineering, Microsystem Engineering, Advanced Materials Synthesis.
	Amy Shen Adjunct Associate Professor Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering	MicroFluidics - Novel Materials - Biomimetics - Energy
	Minoru Taya Adjunct Professor Professor of Mechanical Engineering	Thermal, physical, and mechanical properties of composite materials, percolation theory, dislocation theory, and electronic composites.

Affiliate Faculty

Name & Position	Research Areas
Kellar Autumn Affiliate Professor Professor, Department of Biology at Lewis & Clark College (Portland, Oregon)	Mechanisms and evolution of animal locomotion, and on developing biologically inspired materials and machines. Best known for his discovery of the mechanism of adhesion of geckos, Autumn is the leader of the Gecko Team, a collaboration between L&C (Autumn), UC Berkeley, Stanford, and UCSB.
John W. Cahn Affiliate Professor, UW MSE Affiliate Professor, UW Physics Senior Fellow Emeritus, National Institute of Standards & Technology Room B-409, Physics Bldg cahnj@u.washington.edu	Theoretical materials science.
Scott A. Chambers Affiliate Professor Laboratory Fellow, Environmental Molecular Science Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Richland, Washington	Epitaxial growth and properties of transition metals oxides, and oxide surface and interface geometric and electronic structure.
Toyohiro Chikyow Affiliate Professor Managing Director, NanoMaterials Laboratory, Nanomaterials Assembly Group, National Inst. for Materials Science (Tsukuba, Japan) chikyo.toyohiro@nims.go.jp	Quantum dot structure on the GaSe Surface.
K. Bhagwan Das Affiliate Professor Retired, The Boeing Company (Seattle, Washington) kbdas@u.washington.edu	Rapid solidification rate alloys, metal matrix composites, hydrogen embrittlement, stress–corrosion cracking.
Fatih Dogan Affiliate Professor Professor, Department of Materials Science & Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology (Rolla, Missouri)	Multifunctional electronic ceramics and composites; nanoscale science and engineering; solidification and crystal growth. High temperature superconducting materials, dielectrics, piezoelectrics, thermophotovoltaic emitters, mixed ionic electronic conductors, solid oxide fuel cells.
Charles H. Henager Affiliate Professor Design and Manufacturing Engineering, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Richland, Washington)	Mechanical properties of ceramic composites, mechanical properties and deformation modelling of superplastic alloys, in–situ composite synthesis and ceramic joining.
Kanryu Inoue Affiliate Professor Former MSE Research Professor at UW and Consultant (Bellevue, Washington)	Design and fabrication of 'smart' materials; Device Design of smart materials; Development of superelastic materials; Design and fabrication of nanograined bulk metallic materials; Development and device fabrication of solid-state refrigeration materials; Development of biomedical titanium-based alloys; Development of materials processing techniques spark plasma sintering techniques.
Yasuhiro Koike Affiliate Professor Professor, Science and Technology Keio University Director, JST Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology, Solution Oriented Research for Science and Technology (ERATO-SORST) Project	Prof. Koike is a leading expert in the field of photonic polymers. His research includes polymer material photonics, high-speed and graded indes polymer optical fiber, light scattering, optical amplifiers, fiber lasers, and the development of optical device fabrication methods and applications using birefringence free polymers.
Malcom Snead Affiliate Professor Professor, University of Southern California School of Dentistry and Department of Molecular Biology	Prof. Snead's research covers a wide range of areas within the field of dental science and practice. He is an expert on the pathology of craniofacial biology and is the original discoverer of one of the major proteins, amelogenin, that directs biomineralization and controlled hierarchical structure formation in mammalian enamel. As a molecular biologist and geneticist his work has had a large impact in dental tissue formation, regeneration and restoration.