
Michael Simpson
Department Chair and ProfessorOffice: CME 304
Phone: 801-581-4013
Email: michael.simpson@utah.edu
Research Interests
Nuclear fuel pyroprocessing, Molten salt electrochemistry and spectroscopy.
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Taylor Sparks
Associate Chair and ProfessorOffice: CME 314
Phone: 801-581-8632
Email: sparks@eng.utah.edu
Research Interest
Materials informatics and using machine learning to discover, synthesize, and characterize new energy materials.
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Research Interest
My research is in polymer materials used in health care and sustainability applications. My current research projects are aimed at hydrogels and their uses in optical drug delivery, stimuli-responsive materials in the design of self-monitoring irrigation systems, phase change materials used for thermal management systems, and super absorbent polymers that will degrade under environmental conditions for use by women in developing countries for personal hygiene.

Research Interest
My research interest lies in the area of multiscale modeling of soft-condensed matter systems that exhibit complex, multiscale structure often arising from molecular and super-molecular self-assembly.

Darryl Butt
Professor & Dean of the College of Mines and Earth SciencesOffice: FASB 205
Phone: 801-581-8767
Email: darryl.butt@utah.edu
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Krista Carlson
Assistant ProfessorOffice: WBB 416
Phone: 801-587-9016
Email: krista.carlson@utah.edu
Research Interests
Melt and sol-gel derived glasses, development of high specific surface area membranes for pollutant capture, electrocatalytic materials for water disinfection and biofilm destruction.

Research Interests
Physical Metallurgy and Mechanical Behavior of Materials. Research focus on fatigue and fracture mechanics, materials processing, Li-ion battery material science, modeling of diffusion phenomena, first principles methods and computational alloy design. Also performs failure analysis investigations to determine the root cause of failures in materials and structures.



Research Interests
Cemented tungsten carbide, metal hydrides for hydrogen and thermal energy storage.

Research Interests
Hydrometallurgy and electrometallurgy applied in the electrodeposition of novel materials.

Sivaraman Guruswamy
Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, & Associate Dean for Academics, CMESOffice: WBB 411/413
Phone: 801-581-7217
Email: s.guruswamy@utah.edu
Research Interests
Physical metallurgy, Magnetic and Magnetostrictive Materials, UV and THz Plasmonic Metamaterials, and Materials Processing.

Justin Hooper
Research Assistant ProfessorOffice: CME 206
Phone: 801-585-7171
Email: j.b.hooper@utah.edu
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Research Interest
The Effects of Molybdenum Additions on the Sintering and Mechanical Behavior of Ultrafine-Grained Tungsten.

Chen-Luh Lin
Research Professor EmeritusOffice: WWB 205
Phone: 801-581-5309
Email: chenluh.lin@utah.edu
Research Interest
Particle damage and exposure analysis in HPGR crushing of selected copper ores for column leaching.

Research Interests
My research interests lie in the materials modeling and simulation from the atomic to mesoscopic scales. We develop and apply both first-principles computational methods and phenomenological theoretical models to study a wide spectrum of materials properties in various materials systems. Most recently, we have focused on modeling and simulation of properties of surfaces and interfaces, growth mechanisms of thin films, and self-assembly and self-organization of nanostructures.
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Jan Miller
Ivor D. Thomas Disinguished ProfessorOffice: WBB 216
Phone: 801-581-5160
Email: jan.miller@utah.edu
Research Interests
Mineral processing and coal preparation, flotation separations.

Research Interests
Renewable and alternate energy, biofuels, nuclear waste recycling.

Swomitra Mohanty
Assistant ProfessorOffice: WWB 209A
Phone: 801-587-7299
Email: swomitra.mohanty@utah.edu
Research Interests
Titanium-oxide nanotubes for organic compounds (VOCs) detection for disease diagnosis.

Research Interests
Discrete element methods in the modeling of charge motion in ball mill grinding.

Research Interests
Laser-Assisted Manufacturing, Material Design and Development, 2D Layered Materials, Recycling, Materials Chemistry.

Mike Scarpulla
Associate ProfessorOffice: MEB 2138
Phone: 801-585-1231
Email: scarpulla@eng.utah.edu
Research Interest
Compound semiconductor research, laser processing of compound semiconductors, and photovoltaics. We have current projects in CdTe, CZTSSe, and III-V’s.
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Research Interest
Design, Process and Characterize Functional and Structural Ceramics. Two specific areas of interest are designing functionally-graded carbides in Group VB metal (Ta, Nb, V) -C binary systems and magnetic-field induced texture in non-cubic oxide ceramics for optical and electro-optical applications.
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Research Interest
Extractive/Chemical Metallurgy; Non-Ferrous Metals Recycling; Electrochemistry and Surface Phenomena.

Research Interest
Chemical Synthesis of Inorganic Nanomaterials, Hydrogen Storage Materials Development, Metallurgical Process Engineering, Fluid.

Gerald Stringfellow
Distinguished ProfessorOffice: MEB 3110
Phone: 801-581-8387
Email: stringfellow@coe.utah.edu
Research Interests
Ceramics, advanced materials, microelectronics, and a broad range of topics related to materials science and electronics.
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Research Interests
Powder Metallurgy; Additive Manufacturing

Research Interest
My research is on advanced materials for application in a variety of areas including Nano-Electronics, Spintronics, Spin-Caloritronics, Thermoelectrics and Gas Sensors. We use pulsed laser deposition technique for designing new functional materials and smart structures. Our current emphasis is on Oxide and Chalcogenides based 2D materials.

Anil Virkar
Distinguished ProfessorOffice: CME 316-315
Phone: 801-581-5396
Email: anil.virkar@m.cc.utah.edu
Research Interest
Research interests in fuel cells, batteries, sensors, high temperature materials (ceramics), solid state and liquid state electrochemistry, materials synthesis, energy-related research.

Research Interest
Flotation chemistry, Spectroscopy analysis at surface and interface, Industrial mineral processing, Wastewater treatment, Gypsum dehydration/rehydration processing.

Research Interest
Current research interests include molecular self-assembly, organic semiconductors and nanostructures, nanoscale imaging, molecular probe, fluorescence sensing, optoelectronic sensors and nanodevices, as well as the relevant applications in solar energy conversion, and trace chemical and explosives detection.
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