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WISEST PIs	STAFF	FACILITATORS	UIC STEM faculty	External Advisory Committee	Internal Advisory Committee	Executive Committee	Faculty of the Post-doc Institute

FACILITATORS

Professor of Physics 2274 SES Office: (312) 996-3403 Lab: (312) 996-6751 Fax: (312) 413-2435 Email: adams@uic.edu home page	Mark Adams Facilitator for Physics (2003-09) Lead Facilitator (2007-08) Infant care/climate subcommittee	Professor Adams experimental high energy physics (HEP) research at hadron colliders is focussed on the searches for massive elementary particles which may signal possible, new physics beyond the standard model of HEP. These include leptoquark and Higgs particle searches and exploration of the properties of top quarks. He has built optical readout and trigger electronics for the CMS hadron calorimeter at CERN and tracking/preshower detectors for D0. He is working on the Higgs search in the D0 experiment at Fermilab and preparing for exciting data at the new energy regime at CMS, expected later this year.
Professor of Biological Sciences, and PI of NSF IGERT doctoral training grant at UIC called LEAP (Landscape, Ecological and Anthropogenic Processes) SEL 1031 Office: (312) 413-9700 Lab: (312) 996-9462 Fax: (312) 413-2435 Email: Ashley@uic.edu home page	Mary Ashley Facilitator for Biological Sciences (2003-09) Lead Facilitator (2003-04) Post-doc program subcommittee Visiting Scholar subcommittee STEM women faculty network subcommittee	Mary Ashley’s research program involves using the genetic (DNA) variation found in nature to study ecological and evolutionary processes. The principle underlying her research is that genetic variation found in natural populations provides information for studying ecological, evolutionary, and behavioral processes that are difficult or impossible to observe using more traditional approaches.
Associate Professor of Computer Science 1134 SEO Office: (312) 355-1141 Fax: (312) 413-0024 Email: ifc@cs.uic.edu home page	Isabel F. Cruz Facilitator for Computer Science (2003-09) Post-doc program subcommittee Faculty development subcommittee	Prof. Cruz is working on efficient matching for large real-world schemas and ontologies. She extends the state of the art in schema and ontology matching, and therefore in data integration, by testing and evaluating methods and strategies that establish relationships among semantically related concepts in heterogeneous data sources. The following research issues are addressed: (1) Design of methods and algorithms for schema and ontology matching that operate at different levels of granularity (e.g., concept, structure); (2) Development of a prototype of an integrated system that supports the visualization and manipulation of large schemas and ontologies in addition to the developed matching methods and algorithms; (3) Testing and evaluation.
Professor of Chemistry 5105 SES Office: (312) 996-0945 Fax: (312) 996-0431 Email: lhanley@uic.edu home page	Luke Hanley Facilitator for Chemistry (2008-09) Institutionalization subcommittee Faculty development subcommittee	Prof. Hanley’s research is at the interface of surface science, mass spectrometry, analytical chemistry, and bioengineering. He applies advanced vacuum-based methods to synthesize and characterize the chemical structure and morphology of organic surfaces. He also develops novel methods to analyze organic surfaces, with a particular focus on mass spectrometry.
Professor Emerita of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering 209 CEB Office: (312) 413-3777 Chemistry: 4240 SES Office: (312) 996-2352 Email: cjjames@uic.edu home page	Cynthia J. Jameson Facilitator for Chemistry (2003-06) Facilitator at large (2006-09) Lead Facilitator (2004-05) Post-doc program subcommittee SUCCEED subcommittee Website development subcommittee	Prof. Jameson’s research areas include nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in the gas phase, of adsorbed molecules in nanoporous materials, and more recently, of xenon in various environments such as the cages in zeolite crystals, the nanochannels of zeolites and crystalline dipeptides, and in flexible organic cages in solution. She uses a combination of quantum mechanical calculations of NMR properties with Monte Carlo simulations and molecular dynamics simulations to provide physical insight and understanding of the observed phenomena at the molecular-level.
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering 1105 SEO Office: (312) 996.5493 Fax: (312) 996-6466 Email: laxpati@ece.uic.edu home page	Sharad Laxpati Facilitator for Electrical and Computer Engineering (2003-09) Faculty development subcommittee SUCCEED subcommittee Visiting Scholar subcommittee	Professor Laxpati's research interests include: Electromagnetic theory, antennae, computational electromagnetic scattering, microwaves, wave propagation and communication.
Professor of Civil and Materials Engineering 3083 ERF Office: (312) 996-2436 Email: mcnallan@uic.edu home page	Michael J. McNallan Facilitator for Civil and Materials Engineering (2003-09)
Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering 3035 ERF Office: (312) 996-3436 Fax: (312) 413-0447 Email: cmm@uic.edu home page	Constantine M. Megaridis Facilitator for Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (2003-09) SUCCEED subcommittee Website development subcommitee	Prof. Megaridis’ current research focus is on fluid/particle transport and interfacial phenomena relevant to micro and nanotechnologies. Specific projects use advanced experimental diagnostics and high-resolution electron microscopy techniques to investigate fluid behavior in nanoenclosures, droplet dispensing and deposition, nanoparticle formation in high temperature flows, and nanoparticle colloidal suspensions.
LAS Distinguished Professor of Chemistry 2220 SEL Office: (312) 413-2106 Fax: (312) 996-0431 Email: men@uic.edu home page	Martin Newcomb Facilitator for Chemistry (2006-08) Facilitator at large (2004-06) Lead facilitator (2008-09) Institutionalization subcommittee Website devt subcommittee	Professor Newcomb’s research is in physical studies of radicals employing laser flash photolysis, mechanistic studies of oxidizing enzymes including cytochrome P450 and methane monooxygenase enzymes, and mechanisms of biological radical reactions involving coenzyme B12- and S-adenosylmethionine-dependent enzymes.
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering 215 CEB Office: (312) 996-3469 Fax: (312) 996-0808 Email: lcn@uic.edu home page	Ludwig C. Nitsche Facilitator for Chemical Engineering (2003-2009) SUCCEED subcommittee Website development subcommittee	Prof. Ludwig Nitsche’s research has three central themes (i) microstructure and transcendence of scales from the "granular" substructure to a "smooth" continuum description; (ii) Brownian dynamics and/or nonlinear response; (iii) synergistic interactions between different physicochemical phenomena.
Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences 2454 SES Office: (312) 996-2111 Fax: (312) 413-2279 Email: plotnick@uic.edu home page	Roy Plotnick Facilitator for Earth and Environmental Sciences (2008-2009) Website development subcommittee	Prof. Plotnick’s research areas include paleontology, paleoecology, landscape ecology, spatial statistics, fractals; application of mathematical and statistical models to the understanding of paleontological, stratigraphic, and ecological patterns and processes, uses of spatial statistics, examining the applications of process models such as percolation theory and kinetic growth models to ecological and evolutionary dynamics.
Professor of Mathematics Statistics and Computer Science 526 SEO Office: (312) 413-2160 Fax: (312) 996-1491 Email: srinivas@uic.edu home page	Bhama Srinivasan Facilitator for Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science (2003-2009) Visiting scholar subcommittee STEM women faculty network subcommittee	Professor Srinivasan’s research interests are in group theory, specifically representation theory of finite groups of Lie type. Since the structure of an abstract finite group is often difficult to understand, one tries to represent it by a group of matrices over some field. She works with finite reductive groups, which are analogues of Lie groups over finite fields. The representation theory of finite classical groups also has rich connections with Combinatorics. Combinatorial objects such as Young tableaux and symmetric functions such as Hall-Littlewood functions arise in a natural way. She is also interested in these symmetric functions.
Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences 2472 SES Office: (312) 996-9349 Fax: (312) 413-2279 Email: cstein@uic.edu home page	Carol Stein Facilitator for Earth and Environmental Sciences (2003-2008) Lead facilitator (2006-07) Visiting scholar subcommittee Infant care/climate subcommittee	Prof. Stein’s research covers a range of topics in plate tectonics dealing with the thermal and mechanical evolution of the lithosphere, with emphasis on using measurements of heat flow at the sea floor. Heat flow data provide a valuable constraint on the time-dependent thermal structure, and, hence, the evolution of the lithosphere. Thus, one can examine processes that perturb the zeroth order plate cooling to affect the evolution of the lithosphere, such as hot spots and hydrothermal circulation. Her recent research efforts include thermal evolution of oceanic lithosphere and hydrothermal circulation.
Richard and Loan Hill Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Bioengineering 808 SEO Office: (312) 413-5968 Fax: (312) 996-6465 Email: stroscio@uic.edu home page	Michael Stroscio Facilitator for Bioengineering (2008-2009) Institutionalization subcommittee Faculty development subcommittee	Prof. Stroscio’s research involves electrical, optical, and mechanical properties of nanostructures, quantum transport, solid state electronics and optoelectronics, phonons in nanostructures, theory of nanodevices, applications of nanoscale structures and devices in electrical engineering and bioengineering.