Uzi Landman

Uzi Landman

Uzi Landman

Regents' and Institute Professor, School of Physics
F.E. Callaway Chair in Computational Materials Science
Director, Center for Computational Materials Science

Uzi Landman is an Israeli/American computational physicist, the Fuller E. Callaway Professor of Computational Materials Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. 

He earned a B.Sc. in chemistry at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem in 1965, an M.Sc. in chemistry from the Weizmann Institute in 1966 and a D.Sc. from the Israel Institute of Technology in 1969. His research interests included surface and materials science, solid state physics and nanoscience. 

He joined the faculty of Georgia Tech in 1977 as an associate professor of physics and made professor in 1979, In 1988 he was promoted to regents professor of physics, a title he still holds. In 1992 he became director of the Center for Computational Materials science, at Georgia and in 1995 appointed Fuller E. Callaway endowed Chair in Computational Materials Science.  

In 1989, he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society "for applications of numerical simulation modeling of both the status structure and nonequilibrium dynamics of solid surfaces, interfaces, and small clusters."  In 2000, he was awarded the Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology by the Foresight Institute. 

He received the 2005 Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics, which is the highest honor given by the American Physical Society for work in computational physics. He was also awarded the 2008 Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists.

uzi.landman@physics.gatech.edu

404.894.3368

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Howey W411/W410

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  • Computational Materials Science
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quantum materials; condensed matter systems; Surfaces and Interfaces; Epitaxial Growth

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Andrew Zangwill

Andrew Zangwill

Andrew Zangwill

Professor, School of Physics

Professor Zangwill earned a B.S. in Physics at Carnegie-Mellon University in 1976. His 1981 Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Pennsylvania introduced the time-dependent density functional method. 

He worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn from 1981-1985 before taking up his present position at the Georgia Institute of Technology. 

He was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1997 for theoretical studies of epitaxial crystal growth. 

He is the author of the monograph Physics at Surfaces (1988) and the graduate textbook Modern Electrodynamics (2013). In 2013, he began publishing scholarly work on the history of condensed matter physics.

andrew.zangwill@physics.gatech.edu

404.894.7333

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Howey N102

Modern Electrodynamics

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    • Electronic Materials
    • Materials and Nanotechnology
    • Quantum Computing
    • Quantum Computing and Systems
    • Semiconductors
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    ElectrodynamicsEpitaxial GrowthQuantum MaterialsIII-V Semiconductor Devices

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    Phillip First


    Phillip First

    Professor, School of Physics
    Director, Surface, Interface, and Nanostructure Research Group

    A primary goal of Professor First's research is to develop an understanding of solid-state systems at atomic length scales. The main experimental tools in this pursuit are scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and related techniques such as ballistic electron emission microscopy (BEEM). These methods rely on the quantum-mechanical tunnel effect to obtain atomically-resolved maps of the electronic structure of surfaces, clusters, and buried layers.

    phillip.first@physics.gatech.edu

    404.894.0548

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    Howey N018/ S03

    Surface, Interface and Nanostructure Research Group

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    Electron microscopy, surfaces and interfaces, graphene, epitaxial growth

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    Guillermo Goldsztein

    Guillermo Goldsztein

    Guillermo Goldsztein

    Professor, School of Mathematics

    Professor Goldsztein is originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1992 he received his undergraduate degree in mathematics from the University of Buenos Aires and in 1997 a Ph.D. in mathematics from MIT. During the three following years (1997-2000), he was a postdoctoral scholar and lecturer in applied mathematics at CalTech. Since 2000, he has been a faculty member of the School of Mathematics of Georgia Tech, where he is now a full professor. Professor Goldsztein enjoys applying mathematics that can be used in other other fields of science such as computational biology, machine learning, and the intersection between math and physics. Machine learning is among his areas of expertise.

    ggold@math.gatech.edu

    404.894.2286

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    Skiles 112

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    • Computational Materials Science
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    computational mechanics

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    Angus Wilkinson

    Angus Wilkinson

    Angus Wilkinson

    Professor, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and School of Materials Science and Engineering
    Associate Chair for Operations and Undergraduate Programs

    Angus Wilkinson is a professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and holds a joint appointment with the School of Materials Science and Engineering. Wilkinson obtained his bachelors degree in chemistry from Oxford University in 1988. He was a graduate student with A. K. Cheetham in the Department of Chemical Crystallography /Inorganic Chemistry at Oxford from 1988 until December 1991. His graduate work focused on the application of synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction to problems in solid-state chemistry. 

    For the last two years of his graduate studies he held a senior Scholarship from Christ Church, Oxford. From October 1991 until June 1993, Wilkinson was a Junior Research Fellow with Christ Church, Oxford. However, most of this period was spent on leave at the Materials Research Laboratory, University of California Santa Barbara. His work in Santa Barbara focused on the processing and structure of oxide ferroelectric materials. In October 1993 he joined the faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology as an assistant professor. He received tenure in 1999 and was promoted to full professor in 2004. He is currently Associate Chair for operations in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry. 

    His work at Georgia Tech has been wide ranging. Current projects include the synthesis and characterization of negative thermal expansion ceramics, in-situ studies of cement hydration under oil well conditions (high pressure and temperature) using x-ray and ultrasonic techniques, and the development of reversible carbon dioxide adsorbents. Previous work at Georgia Tech has included an exploration of chiral templates for the synthesis of chiral microporous materials, the low temperature synthesis of ferroelectrics, an exploration of low oxidation state gallium and indium oxide chemistry with a view to finding new ferroelectric and nonlinear optical materials, the development of resonant x-ray scattering methods for use on thermoelectric energy conversion materials, and an examination of cement durability under sulfate attack conditions using high energy x-ray scattering combined with microtomography.

    angus.wilkinson@chemistry.gatech.edu

    404.894.4036

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    MoSE 1100J

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    • Materials and Nanotechnology
    Additional Research:
    Thermoelectric Materials; Metal-Organic Frameworks; Modeling

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    Jung Choi

    Jung Choi

    Jung Choi

    Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences
    Director, M.S. Program in Bioinformatics

    Jung Choi is an associate professor in the School of Biology at Georgia Tech and director of the Professional Masters program in Bioinformatics. He has been at Georgia Tech since 1986. Choi has done research on plant protein kinases with calmodulin-like domains, and some research with yeast lipid metabolism that has yet to bear fruit. He has taught a wide variety of courses, but most enjoys teaching large intro lecture courses – which he finds both challenging and rewarding.

    jung.choi@biology.gatech.edu

    404.894.8423

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    Cherry Emerson 213

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    Research Focus Areas:
    • Biobased Materials
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    Bioinformatics; Kinetics; Materials Testing; Materials Synthesis and Processing

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    Leslie Gelbaum


    Leslie Gelbaum

    Principal Research Scientist, School of Chemistry

    Dr. Gelbaum manages the campus NMR service center and provides user training and support for solution NMR experiments.

    leslie.gelbaum@chemistry.gatech.edu

    404.894.4079

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    • Materials and Nanotechnology
    Additional Research:
    spectroscopy

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    Z. John Zhang

    Z. John Zhang

    Z. John Zhang

    Professor, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry

    The research interests of Zhang and his group focus on understanding the fundamental relationships between the chemical composition/crystal structure and the properties of novel materials. A multidisciplinary approach including inorganic/physical chemistry and solid-state physics is employed to pursue the synthesis and physical property studies of nanostructured materials. The applications of these materials in advanced technologies and in biomedical science are also actively explored.

    john.zhang@chemistry.gatech.edu

    404.894.6368

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    • Materials and Nanotechnology
    Additional Research:
    Advanced CharacterizationMetal Oxide NanoparticlesNanostructured Materials

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    Philip Shapira

    Philip Shapira

    Philip Shapira

    Professor, School of Public Policy

    Philip Shapira is a Professor in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology and Professor of Management, Innovation and Policy with the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. His interests encompass science and technology policy, economic and regional development, innovation management and policy, industrial competitiveness, technology trajectories and assessment, innovation measurement, and policy evaluation. Shapira's current and recent research includes projects that examine nanotechnology research and innovation systems assessment, responsible research and innovation in synthetic biology, and next generation manufacturing and institutions for technology diffusion. Shapira is a director of the Georgia Tech Program in Science, Technology and Innovation Policy and the Georgia Manufacturing Survey. He is co-editor (with J. Edler, P. Cunningham, and A. Gök) of the Handbook of Innovation Policy Impact (Edward Elgar 2016) and (with R. Smits and S. Kuhlmann) of Innovation Policy: Theory and Practice. An International Handbook (Edward Elgar, 2010). Shapira is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

    philip.shapira@pubpolicy.gatech.edu

    404.894.7735

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    DM Smith 314

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    Emerging Technologies; Innovation

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