Dr. S. Pamir Alpay
p.alpay@ims.uconn.edu

Professor S. Pamir Alpay received his BS (1990) and MS (1993) from the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering of the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, and his PhD (1999) from the Department of Materials Engineering of the University of Maryland. Dr. Alpay worked as a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Maryland for 1.5 years. He joined the faculty of the University of Connecticut in Oct. 2000 as an Assistant Professor. His interest areas concentrate on the theory and modeling of properties of thin film functional and electronic materials. Dr. Alpay is the recipient of a NATO-A1 doctoral scholarship (1994), the Departmental Fellowship for Outstanding Research at the University of Maryland (1998), the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award (2001), and Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, School of Engineering at the University of Connecticut (2004).Dr Alpay recently became an Associate Professor.

Mr. M. Baris Okatan
PhD Candidate
baris.okatan@uconn.edu

Mr. Okatan received his BS and MS in Metallurgical and Materials Science from the Middle East Technical University in 2003 and 2006, respectively. He joined the Functional Materials Group in January 2007. He is currently working on analytical solution of the graded ferroelectric thin films problem.

 

Ms. Claire Weiss
PhD Candidate
claire.weiss@uconn.edu

Ms. Weiss received her BA in physics from Lawrence University in Appleton, WI in 2007. She joined the Functional Materials group at UConn in August, 2007. She is currently working on fabrication and characterization of complex oxide thin films. Ms. Weiss also spends her summers doing research at the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) in Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD.

 

Mr. Yong Liu
PhD Candidate
yong.liu@huskymail.uconn.edu

Yong Liu received his BS and Master's degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Beihang University (formerly Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics), China in 2002 and 2005, respectively. He joined Prof. Alpay's group as a Ph.D candidate in August 2007. Currently, Yong is working on modeling and development of highly reliable and self-healing novel electrical contact materials.

 

Mr. Ching-Chang Chung
PhD Candidate
jenkins0911@hotmail.com

Ching-Chang Chung received his BS and Master's degree in Materials Science and Engineering from National Cheng KungUniversity, Taiwan in 2004 and 2006, respectively. He joined Prof. Alpay's group as a Ph.D candidate in August 2008. He is currently working on ferroelectric thin films.

Ms. Jialan Zhang
PhD Candidate
jialan.zhang@uconn.edu

Ms. Zhang received her B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Nanjing University, China in 2007. She joined the Functional Materials group at UConn as a Ph.D candidate in August, 2008. She is currently working on modeling and computation of ferroelectric materials.