Faculty
Director
James Rondinelli
Walter Dill Scott Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Associate Chair of Materials Science and Engineering
Co-Directors
Wei Chen
Chair and Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Wilson-Cook Professor in Engineering Design and (by courtesy) Materials Science and Engineering
Gregory Wagner
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Director of Graduate Studies for Mechanical Engineering
Assistant Director
Mechanical Engineering
Oluwaseyi Balogun
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
Jian Cao
Associate Vice President for Research
Cardiss Collins Professor of Mechanical Engineering and (by courtesy) Civil and Environmental Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, and Materials Science and Engineering
Director, Northwestern Initiative for Manufacturing Science and Innovation (NIMSI)
Horacio Espinosa
James N. and Nancy J. Farley Professor in Manufacturing & Entrepreneurship
Director, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Program
Director of the Institute for Cellular Engineering Technologies
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and (by courtesy) Biomedical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering
Q. Jane Wang
Joseph Cummings Professor in Mechanical Engineering
Executive Director, Center for Surface Engineering and Tribology
Neelesh Patankar
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and (by courtesy) Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
Richard Lueptow
Professor of Mechanical Engineering (and by courtesy) Chemical and Biological Engineering
Senior Associate Dean
Gregory Wagner
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Director of Graduate Studies for Mechanical Engineering
Materials Science and Engineering
Vinayak Dravid
Abraham Harris Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Founding Director, Northwestern University Atomic and Nanoscale Characterization (NUANCE) Center
Founding Director, Soft and Hybrid Nanotechnology Experimental (SHyNE) Resource, an NSF-NNCI Node
Erik Luijten
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and (by courtesy) Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy, and Chemistry
Associate Dean for Research and Doctoral Education
Gregory Olson
Walter P. Murphy Professor Emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering
John Torkelson
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering
Peter Voorhees
Frank C. Engelhart Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and (by courtesy) Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
Co-Director, CHiMaD
Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
Sanjay Mehrotra
Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
Director, Center for Engineering Health
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Aaron Packman
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering and Chemical and Biological Engineering
Yonggang Huang
Jan and Marcia Achenbach Professorship in Mechanical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and (by courtesy) Materials Science and Engineering
Isaac Daniel
Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
Gianluca Cusatis
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Luís Amaral
Erastus Otis Haven Professor
Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics and (by courtesy) Physics, Molecular Biosciences, Medicine, and Astronomy
Julio Ottino
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering
Distinguished Robert R. McCormick Institute Professor
Professor of Management and Organizations, Kellogg School of Management
Chemistry
Mercouri Kanatzidis
Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry and (by courtesy) Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Teri Odom
Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry and (by courtesy) Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Biology
Information Technology
Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Alok Choudhary
Harold Washington Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science
Aggelos Katsaggelos
Joseph Cummings Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and (by courtesy) Computer Science and Radiology
Director, Image and Video Processing Lab (IVPL)
Co-Director, Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts (NU-ACCESS)
Deputy Director of Computation, Center for Computational Imaging and Signal Analytics in Medicine
Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
Department of Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine
James Thomas
Professor of Medicine-Cardiology
