Kavli Institute at Cornell (KIC) Executive Committee
David A. Muller, Co-Director
David A. Muller is a Professor of Applied and Engineering Physics. His research interests include the development of atomic-resolution and three-dimensional electron imaging techniques, and their use in the discovery and control of new materials and nanostructures. His awards include the Burton medal of the Microscopy Society of America; a TR-100 award from Tech Review magazine; and Nature Materials selected his study of interfaces as one of the top ten papers of 2006.
Email: dm24@cornell.edu
Dan Ralph, Co-Director
Dan Ralph is Horace White Professor of Physics and current Chair of the Department of Physics. His research interests include: new nanofabrication techniques, electronic properties on molecular length scales, high-speed dynamics in magnetic devices, correlated-electron states in magnets and superconductors, and quantum properties of defects and impurities. He has been awarded Sloan and Packard Fellowships, the William L. McMillan Award, the Research Corporation Research Innovation Award, and the ONR Young Investigators Award.
Email: dcr14@cornell.edu
Debanjan Chowdhury, Member

Debanjan Chowdhury, Physics
Debanjan Chowdhury is Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics. His research is focused primarily on the study of strongly correlated quantum matter, using techniques from quantum field theory and quantum information. He was a Moore fellow, supported by the EPiQS initiative of the Gordon and Betty Moore foundation, in the Physics department at MIT until June 2019.
Email: debanjanchowdhury@cornell.edu
Brett Fors, Member

Brett Fors, Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Brett Fors is Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology. His research focuses on the development of new synthetic methods and catalyst systems to control polymer architecture, composition, and function.
Email: brettfors@cornell.edu
Matthew J. Paszek, Member

Matthew Paszek, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Matthew Paszek is Associate Professor in the Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. He began his scientific career as an undergraduate in the School of Chemical Engineering at Cornell University. Upon receiving his B.S. from Cornell, he pursued a Ph.D. in Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania under the mentorship of Professors Daniel Hammer and Valerie Weaver, where he conducted experimental and theoretical work that identified increased tissue stiffness and enhanced tumor cell contractility as key driving forces of cancer progression. He then moved to the University of California, San Francisco under the mentorship of Valerie Weaver, where he began his work in glycobiology and developed Scanning Angle Interference Microscopy, a powerful tool for imaging live cells at the nanoscale. In 2013, Matthew returned to Cornell University as a Kavli Fellow under the mentorship of Professor’s Abraham Stroock and Claudia Fischbach, and worked on the development of high speed, custom optoelectronics for nanoscale cellular imaging. In the Spring of 2014, Matthew joined the Cornell faculty as an Assistant Professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. His current researches focuses on how chemistry and mechanics are coupled in living systems.
Email: paszek@cornell.edu
Grace Xing, Member
Huili (Grace) Xing is the William L. Quackenbush Professor of Engineering and Associate Dean on Research and Graduate Studies. Her research focus can be loosely grouped into three areas: GaN electronics and optoelectronics, steep transistors, and 2D crystals. The seminconductors she works with include GaN, conventional III-Vs, graphene and other 2D crystals. Some of Xing’s honors and awards include the Young Scientist award (2014), the CAREER award (2009) and the Young Investigator Program Award (2008).
Email: grace.xing@cornell.edu
Christopher Ober, Ex-Officio as Director of the CNF
Christopher Ober is the Francis Bard Professor of Materials Engineering, and the Lester B. Knight Director of the Cornell NanoScale Facility. Chris received his B.Sc. in Honours Chemistry (Co-op) from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1978 and his Ph.D. in Polymer Science and Engineering from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) in 1982. From 1982 until 1986 he was a senior member of the research staff at the Xerox Research Centre of Canada where he worked on marking materials. Ober joined Cornell University in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in 1986. A Fellow of the ACS, APS and AAAS, his awards include the 2013 SPSJ International Award, 2009 Gutenberg Research Award from the University of Mainz, the 1st Annual FLEXI Award in the Education Category (for flexible electronics) awarded in 2009, a Humboldt Research Prize in 2007 and the 2006 ACS Award in Applied Polymer Science. In 2014 he was a JSPS Fellow in Tokyo, Japan and in 2015 he received the ICPST Outstanding Achievement Award.
Email: director@cnf.cornell.edu
Senior Investigators

Nick Abbott
Nicholas Abbott, Member
Tisch University Professor, Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Email: nla34@cornell.edu

Hector Abruña
Hector Abruña, Member
Emile M. Chamot Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Email: hda1@cornell.edu
Lynden Archer, Member
Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering; James A. Friend Family Distinguished Professor in Engineering, Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; David Croll Director of the Energy Systems Institute
Email: laa25@cornell.edu
Barbara Baird, Member
Horace White Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Email: bab13@cornell.edu

Nicole Benedek
Nicole Benedek, Member
Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Email: nab83@cornell.edu

Ilana Brito
Ilana Lauren Brito, Member
Assistant Professor and Mong Family Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow in Biomedical Engineering, Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering
Email: ilb8@cornell.edu
Itai Cohen, Member
Professor, Department of Physics
Email: ic64@cornell.edu
J. C. Séamus Davis, Member
James Gilbert White Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics
Email: jcdavis@ccmr.cornell.edu

Amal El-Ghazaly
Amal El-Ghazaly, Member
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Email: ase63@cornell.edu

Iwijn De Vlaminck
Iwijn De Vlaminck, Member
Associate Professor, Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering
Email: vlaminck@cornell.edu
David Erickson, Member
S.C. Thomas Sze Director of the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Email: de54@cornell.edu
Lara Estroff, Member
Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Email: lae37@cornell.edu
Gerald Feigenson, Member
Professor, Molecular Biology and Genetics
Email: gwf3@cornell.edu
Claudia Fischbach, Member
Stanley Bryer 1946 Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering
Email: cf99@cornell.edu

Greg Fuchs
Gregory Fuchs, Member
Associate Professor , Department of Applied and Engineering Physics
Email: gdf9@cornell.edu
Sol Gruner, Member
John L. Wetherill Emeritus Professor of Physics, Department of Physics
Email: smg26@cornell.edu

Debdeep Jena
Debdeep Jena, Member
David E. Burr Professor of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering & Materials Science and Engineering Departments
Email: dj326@cornell.edu
Lena Kourkoutis, Member
Associate Professor and Rebecca Q. and James C. Morgan Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow, Applied and Engineering Physics
Email: lf56@cornell.edu

Jan Lammerding
Jan Lammerding, Member
Professor, Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering
Email: jan.lammerding@cornell.edu
Johannes Lehmann, Member
Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor, School of Integrative Plant Science Soil and Crop Sciences Section and Department of Global Development
Email: cl273@cornell.edu
Dan Luo, Member
Professor, Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering
Email: dl79@cornell.edu

Kin Fai Mak
Kin Fai Mak, Member
Professor, Department of Physics
Email: km627@cornell.edu

Paul McEuen
Paul L. McEuen, Member
John A. Newman Professor of Physical Science, Department of Physics
Email: plm23@cornell.edu

Al Molnar
Alyosha Molnar, Member
Associate Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Email: am699@cornell.edu

Jeffrey Moses
Jeffrey Moses, Member
Assistant Professor, Department of Applied & Engineering Physics
Email: jam262@cornell.edu

Katja Nowack
Katja Nowack, Member
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics
Email: katja.nowack@cornell.edu
Jeevak Parpia, Member
Professor, Department of Physics
Email: jmp9@cornell.edu

Brad Ramshaw
Brad Ramshaw, Member
Dick & Dale Reis Johnson Assistant Professor, Department of Physics
Email: bradramshaw@cornell.edu

Farhan Rana
Farhan Rana, Member
Joseph P. Ripley Professor of Engineering, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Email: farhan.rana@cornell.edu
Richard D. Robinson, Member
Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Email: rdr82@cornell.edu

Chris Schaffer
Chris Schaffer, Member
Professor, Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering
Email: cs385@cornell.edu
Darrell Schlom, Member
Hebert Fisk Johnson Professor of Industrial Chemistry, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Email: schlom@cornell.edu

Jie Shan
Jie Shan, Member
Professor, School of Applied and Engineering Physics
Email: js3469@cornell.edu
Kyle Shen, Member
James A. Weeks Professor of Physical Sciences and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, Department of Physics
Email: kmshen@cornell.edu

Abe Stroock
Abraham Stroock, Member
Gordon L. Dibble ’50 Professor, Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Email: abe.stroock@cornell.edu
Jin Suntivich, Member
Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Email: js2765@cornell.edu

Zhiting Tian
Zhiting Tian, Member
Associate Professor, Sibley School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Email: js2765@cornell.edu

Uli Wiesner
Ulrich B. Wiesner, Member
Spencer T. Olin Professor of Engineering, Department of Materials Science & Engineering
Email: ubw1@cornell.edu

Frank Wise
Frank Wise, Member
Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Engineering, School of Applied and Engineering Physics
Email: fww1@cornell.edu
Chris Xu, Member
IBM Professor of Engineering and Director of the School of Applied and Engineering Physics
Email: cx10@cornell.edu
Warren Zipfel, Member
Associate Professor, Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering
Email: wrz2@cornell.edu