CDAC Academic Partners

November 15th, 2013
Przemeslaw Dera is the CDAC Academic Partner from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. His areas of research include mineral physics, crystallography, meteoritic mineralogy and petrology, advanced numerical methods, scientific software development, x-ray physics, development of advanced scientific instrumentation, solid state chemistry, and...
November 15th, 2013
Dana D. Dlott is a CDAC Academic Partner from the University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign. He received his undergraduate degree from Columbia in 1974 and his Ph.D. from Stanford in 1979. He joined the faculty at Illinois in 1979. Professor Dlott's research interests are in chemical physics, and physical and materials chemistry. His research is...
May 24th, 2016
Susannah Dorfman is the CDAC Academic Partner from Michigan State University. Her research simulates the conditions inside Earth and other planets using experiments in the laser-heated diamond anvil cell at high pressures (up to 2.5 Mbar) and temperatures (up to 6000 K). She is interested in the effects of these extreme conditions on phase...
November 15th, 2013
Brent Fultz is the CDAC Academic Partner from Caltech. He received his undergraduate degree from MIT and his Ph.D. from U. C. Berkeley in 1982. He was a Presidential Young Investigator, and received an IBM Faculty Development Award, a Jacob Wallenberg Scholarship, and won the TMS EMPMD Distinguished Scientist Award in 2010. Brent Fultz has been...
May 24th, 2016
Dion Heinz is the CDAC partner from the University of Chicago. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of the Geophysical Sciences. His main areas of interest are mineral physics and materials research. His group uses diamond anvil cells to study simple materials as well as minerals at high pressures.
November 30th, 2015
Toshiko Ichiye is the CDAC Academic Partner from Georgetwon University. Her research involves theoretical studies of biological macromolecules and other condensed matter systems at a molecular level. She is interested in problems such as how the structure of a given protein promotes its biological function and how solvent influences structure and...
November 15th, 2013
Steve Jacobsen is the CDAC Academic Partner from Northwestern University. He is a mineralogist specializing in experimental mineral physics, which applies atomic-scale structure and physical properties of materials to understand global-scale processes in solid-Earth geophysics and geochemistry, planetary science, as well as high-pressure physical...
November 15th, 2013
Raymond Jeanloz is a CDAC Academic Partner from the University of California - Berkeley. He and his group study the nature and evolution of planetary interiors, as well as the properties of materials at high pressures. Much of their work is based on experiments with laser-heated diamond-anvil cells, and they also pursue shock-wave experiments and...
May 24th, 2016
Maik Lang is the CDAC partner from the University of Tennessee. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering. Maik received his Ph.D. in 2004 from th University of Heidelberg in Germany. Before coming to Tennessee, he was an Assistant Research Scientist.
November 15th, 2013
Lowell Miyagi is the CDAC Academic Partner from the University of Utah. He is a former CDAC supported graduate student from the University of California - Berkeley. His research focuses on the development of crystallographic preferred orientation during deposition, crystal growth, deformation, phase transformations, and recrystallization and the...
November 15th, 2013
James Schilling is the CDAC Academic Partner from Washington University in St. Louis. His research group studies the influence of high hydrostatic pressure on the superconducting, magnetic and structural properties of exotic condensed matter systems.
November 15th, 2013
Yogesh Vohra is the CDAC Academic Partner from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the founding Director of the UAB Center for Nanoscale Materials and Biointegration (CNMB) at UAB. CNMB is an interdisciplinary research and student-training center focusing (i) on the synthesis and characterization of nanoscale materials and structures...
November 15th, 2013
Hans-Rudolf Wenk is a CDAC Academic Partner from the University of California - Berkely. He joined the Department of Earth and Planetary Science at Berkeley in 1967. His research is in crystallography, mineralogy, structural geology and rock deformation. Most recently (see research interests and publications), emphasis has been on understanding...
November 15th, 2013
Choong-Shik Yoo is the CDAC Academic Partner from Washington State University. He is a professor in the Department of Chemistry and in the internationally recognized WSU Institute for Shock Physics. Prior to his arrival at WSU, he worked for nearly 20 years at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he developed and led a large multi-...
November 15th, 2013
Eva Zurek is the CDAC Academic Partner from the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Her research group studies the electronic structure, properties, and reactivity of molecules, nanosystems, and solids - whether they be inorganic or organic - using the computational approaches of quantum chemistry, and band structure methods....