People

Participating Senior Investigators:
Senior investigators are drawn from several Colleges and Schools, including Chemistry and Biochemistry, Physics, Electrical Engineering (EE), Arizona Biodesign Institute (AZBio), and the School of Materials (SOM) — an interdisciplinary school overseen by the Colleges of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Engineering. The administrator is theoretician Mark van Schilfgaarde.

Principal Investigator	Dept	Title	Expertise
IRG-I Synthesis and Transport in II-IV-V Chalcopyrites for Photovoltaics
Dave Ferry	EE	Regents Professor	Transport in electronic devices
Nathan Newman	SOM	Professor	Electronic materials
Subhash Mahajan	SOM	Regents Professor	Microstructure of materials
Mark van Schilfgaarde	SOM	Professor	Materials theory
Takao Kotani	SOM	Asc. Res. Professor	Electronic structure theory
IRG-II A New Approach to Development of Catalytic Materials for CO Reduction
Devens Gust	Chemistry	Foundation Prof.	Photochemistry, organic chemistry
Neal Woodbury	AZBio	Professor	Photosynthesis, bioinspired materials
Michael Thorpe	Physics	Foundation Prof.	Modeling of biological molecules
Giovanna Ghirlanda	Chemistry	Asc. Professor	Bioinspired materials
IRG-III A Fundamentally New Approach to Fuel Cells
C. Austen Angell	Chemistry	Regents Professor	Protic ionic liquids
Cody Friesen	SOM	Ast. Professor	Electrochemistry, surface science
Karl Sieradzki	SOM	Professor	Surface science, corrosion
Mark van Schilfgaarde	SOM	Professor	Materials theory
Don Gervasio	AZBio	Asc. Res. Professor	Fuel cells
Education and Human Resource Development
B Ramakrishna	SOM	Asc. Professor	Science education
David Guston	Poly Sci	Professor	Acting Director, CNS
Seed Projects
Stephen Goodnick	EE	Asc. V.P. Research	Transport in electron devices
Ghassan Jabbour	SOM	Professor	Organic semiconductors
Jian Li	SOM	Ast. Professor	Organic semiconductors

The External Advisory Board (members listed below) was chosen from distinguished scientists in University, Industry, and National Laboratory environments, one with prior MRSEC experience, to oversee both the technical and administrative aspects of this MRSEC.

Frank Di Salvo	John A. Newman Professor, Cornell	Fuel Cells, MRSEC experience
Richard Swanson	Founder, Sunpower Corporation	Inorganic Photovoltaics
Larry Kazmerski	Director, National Center for PV, NREL	Photovoltaics
Mike Seibert	Fellow, National Renewable Energy Lab	Bioinspired materials

Also associated with this MRSEC are two external collaborators from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory: Tim Coutts, NREL Fellow (photovoltaics) and Brian Gregg (organic semiconductors for photovoltaics).