All Faculty
Professor of Physics
The broad focus of Prof. Baranger's group is the interplay of electron-electron interactions and quantum interference at the nanoscale. Fundamental...
Professor of Chemistry
Dr. Beratan, R.J. Reynolds Professor of Chemistry, is exploring the molecular mechanisms that enable the function of
complex biological machines and...
Michael J. Fitzpatrick Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering
DISP uses joint design of physical sampling and digital processing strategies to develop high performance sensor systems. DISP builds instruments for...
Senior Research Scientist of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Rachael Brady specializes in the use of technology to aid data exploration and analysis. She promotes the use of visualization and virtual reality...
Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Professor Brooke's expertise is in multi-disciplinary, team-oriented collaborative research involving co-design and co-development of hybrid analog,...
Theo Pilkington Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Chilkoti's research focuses on biomolecular materials and biointerface science and emphasizes the development of applications that span the range...
Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering
This laboratory’s research is in the area of physics-based statistical signal processing algorithms, and we are actively engaged in two general...
Adjunct Associate Professor of Chemistry
Laser research, Fine Arts Conservation, FTIR as applied to materials, Lichen research using a laser at 3 microns.
Application of laser in cleaning...
Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering
We study the design and fabrication of nanostructures as applied specifically to the fabrication of future computing systems: devices-to-computer...
Professor (primary appt: Physics)
Prof. Edwards is is Director of the Duke Free-Electron
Laser (FEL) Laboratory. His interests center on
biological physics and FEL applications....
Lord-Chandran Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Microfluidic systems for lab-on-a-chip applications based on electrowetting technology. We are primarily focused on applications, such as a chip to...
Associate Professor of Physics
Gleb Finkelstein is an experimental physicist interested in inorganic and biologically inspired nanostructures: carbon nanotubes, graphene,...
Assistant Research Professor of Chemistry
Dr. Fischer is an Assistant Research Professor in Chemistry. His research focuses on exploring novel nonlinear contrast mechanisms such as two-photon...
Henry Newson Professor of Physics
Prof. Gao's research focuses on understanding the structure of the nucleon in terms of quark and gluon degrees of freedom of Quantum Chromodynamics (...
Robert C. Richardson Professor of Physics
Prof. Gauthier is interested in a broad range of topics in the
fields of nonlinear and quantum optics, and nonlinear
dynamical systems.
In the area...
Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Jeffrey T. Glass is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and is the Director of the Pratt School?s Master of...
Adjunct Professor of Physics
Prof. Guenther uses femtosecond pulsed laser systems to study ultrafast phenomena. Current research includes characterization of quantum well devices...
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
My research interests are in the area of interfacial transport phenomena and thermodynamics in energy technology including phenomena at the micro-...
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Aquatic chemistry and geochemistry, trace element environmental chemistry, nanogeoscience, mercury biogeochemistry, water-particle surface processes.
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor Izatt's research interests are in the area of biophotonics and include coherence-based biomedical imaging and microscopy, novel...
Creed C. Black Associate Professor of Philosophy
Janiak is the Creed C. Black Associate Professor of Philosophy and a member of the Bass Society of Fellows at Duke. Since 2007, he has been Director...
Professor of Radiology
Dr. Johnson is the Charles E. Putman University Professor of Radiology, Physics, and Biomedical Engineering and Director of the Duke Center for In...
Professor of Biology
Our intellectual focus is on identifying determinants of
cell shape that function during development and wound
healing. We utilize novel biophysical...
James B. Duke Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Leong's research interest focuses on biomaterials design, particularly on synthesis of nanoparticles for DNA-based therapeutics, and nanostructured...
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Dr. Liu’s research interests are focusing on
the chemistry and material science of
nanoscale materials. Specific topics in his
current research...
Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Professor Massoud is interested in ultrathin gate dielectrics for CMOS ULSI. His interest span the
technology, phyiscs, modeling, simulation, and...
M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., Professor of Biomedical Engineering, with appointments in Surgery, Business, and Anatomy
Professors Emeritus of Chemistry
Dr. Palmer's research interests span the
areas of analytical, inorganic and physical
chemistry. Current projects involve the use of
FTIR spectroscopy...
Alan L. Kaganov Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Reichert's research interests include biosensors, protein mediated cell adhesion, and wound healing.
A. Hollis Edens Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
Molecular assembly, DNA computing, robot motion planning, parallel algorithms, randomized algorithms, graph algorithms, algebraic computations, data...
Nortel Networks Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Prof. Reynolds' research interests include RFID, ultra-low power sensing and computation, energy harvesting, wireless power transfer (WPT), and smart...
Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Nanomaterials resulting from quantum confinement in three dimensions, known as nanoparticles or quantum dots, exhibit unique characteristics compared...
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Chemistry
Our research involves the synthesis of compounds, supramolecular assemblies, nano-scale objects, and electronic materials with unusual ground-and...
Fritz London Professor Emeritus of Physics
Professor John E. Thomas is exploring the physics of an optically trapped degenerate Fermi gas. The group pioneered the development of ultrastable...
Professor of Chemistry
Dr. Toone is a physical organic chemist who
studies relationships between structure and
activity in the context of biology. Currently
active
programs...
R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Dr. Truskey's research interests include cardiovascular tissue engineering, mechanisms of atherogenesis, cell adhesion, and cell biomechanics.
Professor of Mathematics
Integrable Systems
Integrable systems mostly consist of families of nonlinear differential equations (ordinary and partial) that can be solved (...
R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Professor and Director of Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics
Vo-Dinh’s research activities and interests involve biophotonics, laser-excited luminescence spectroscopy, room temperature phosphorimetry,...
James B. Duke Professor of Chemistry and Radiology
Our work focuses on the design and application of what might best be called novel pulsed techniques, using controlled radiation fields to alter...
Theodore Kennedy Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Dr. Wax's research interests include optical spectroscopy for early cancer detection, novel microscopy and interferometry techniques.
Fitzpatrick Family University Professor of Engineering
West's research in biomaterials, nanotechnology and tissue engineering involves the synthesis, development, and application of novel biofunctional...
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
In the Wiley Group, we make new nanomaterials by controlling the assembly of atoms in solution, and explore applications for nanomaterials in...
Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering
My research interests include network and imaging science with
applications in medical imaging, wireless sensor networks, astronomy,
and social...
Associate Professor and Associate Director for Accelerators & Light Sources, DFEL (member, Faculty, Medical Physics Graduate Program) of Physics
Prof. Wu is interested in nonlinear dynamics of charged particle beams, coherent radiation sources, and the development of novel accelerators and...
Professor of Chemistry
Prof. Yang, the Philip Handler Professor of Chemistry, is developing methods for quantum mechanical calculations of large systems and carrying out...
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Theoretical and Experimental studies on concentration gradients arising in ionic fluids and magnetic liquids.
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Dr. You's research interest focus on computational systems biology & synthetic biology, including mathematical modeling of cellular networks;...
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Dr. Yuan's research interests include drug and gene delivery, mechanisms of molecular transport in cells and tissues, and tumor pathophysiology.
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Dr Zhao's research is to understand the fundamental mechanics and physics of materials and phenomena emerging on the interface between engineering...
