* Emeritus faculty

The physics group also includes affiliate faculty from other UC Merced graduate groups. Physics students may also carry out their physics graduate research with these groups.

 

• Mehmet Z. Baykara: tribology and surface science (Mechanical Engineering)
• Sarah Kurtz: solar energy (Materials and Biomaterials Science and Engineering)
• Jennifer Lu: functional material synthesis (Materials and Biomaterials Science and Engineering)
• Victor Muñoz: biophysics (Bioengineering)
• Alex Noy: biomaterials (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
• Anand Subramaniam: biomaterials (Bioengineering)
• Tao Ye: bio/nano interfaces (Chemistry and Biochemistry)

• Venkattraman Ayyaswamy: plasma physics (Mechanical Engineering)
• Mike Colvin: biomolecular simulation (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
• Arvind Gopinath: biophysics (Bioengineering)
• Hrant Hratchian: theoretical chemistry (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
• Shilpa Khatri: fluid dynamics (Applied Math)
• Elizabeth Nowadnick: computational materials physics (Materials and Biomaterials Science and Engineering)
• Aurora Pribram-Jones: theoretical chemistry (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
• Tomas Rube: computational biology (Applied Math)