Executive Committee

SHUG Executive committee members

Name • Affiliation • E-mail	Areas of Research Interest
Chair: Igor Zaliznyak    (Term expires December 2008) Brookhaven National Laboratory Zaliznyak@bnl.gov 631-344-3761	Physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Research field – “hard” condensed matter; quantum magnetism, properties of doped Mott insulators, quantum liquids. Neutron spectroscopy and diffraction studies of spin excitations and weak ordering and quantum phase transitions in low-dimensional quantum magnets, short-range spin and charge order in doped perovskites, dynamics of quantum liquids.
Vice Chair: Mike Crawford (Term expires June 2010) DuPont Michael.K.Crawford@usa.dupont.com	Research staff at Central Research and Development, DuPont. Structural and magnetic properties of transition metal oxides, x-rays and neutron scattering, high-Tc superconductors, infrared, Raman, and optical spectroscopy, optical lithography, physical chemistry.
Mark Dadmun (Term expires June 2010) University of Tennessee dad@utk.edu	Professor of chemistry at the University of Tennessee – Knoxville and jointly at ORNL. Research interests are in physical chemistry of polymers, focusing on polymer blends and nanocomposites, using SANS, spin echo, and quasielastic neutron scattering.
Emily Liu (term expires June 2010) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute liue@rpi.edu	Assistant Professor at Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Research focuses on studying nano-materials, nuclear technology materials and biological macromolecules, using quasi-elastic, inelastic, and elastic neutron scattering.
David Londono (Term expires December 2008) DuPont j-david.londono@usa.dupont.com	Research associate at DuPont Experimental Station. Research experience mainly in small angle neutron scattering and neutron crystallography, polymers and soft condensed matter, synchrotron and laboratory X-rays.
Despina Louca, Past Chair (Term expires December 2008) University of Virginia Physics Department Charlottesville VA louca@virginia.edu	Professor at the University of Virginia. Neutron and X-ray scattering on complex transition metal oxides, amorphous alloys, and intermetallics. Study of phase transitions and characterization of magnetic and atomic properties.
Janna Maranas (Term expires December 2008) Penn. State University jmaranas@engr.psu.edu	Professor at Penn State University. Neutron scattering and molecular simulations of soft materials. Research in Quasi-elastic scattering, SANS, reflectometry, studying membranes for barriers and fuel cells, polymers, proteins, and biological membranes.
Flora Meilleur (Term expires June 2010) North Carolina State University flora_meilleur@ncsu.edu	Assistant Professor. Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry. North Carolina State University. Research focuses on studies of enzymatic mechanisms using neutron and X-ray crystallography and virus infection using small angle neutron Scattering and neutron reflectometry.
Secretary and Post-Doc representative: Andrei Savici (Term expires December 2008) Johns Hopkins University saviciat@ornl.gov	Postdoc at Johns Hopkins University, stationed at SNS. Studies of quantum magnets and high Tc superconductors using inelastic neutron scattering, working on a design for a high magnetic field instrument.
Len Spicer (Term expires December 2008) Duke University spicer@biochem.duke.edu	Professor at Duke University. Physical chemistry, biophysical research on macromolecular structures involving proteins and nucleic acids. Main effort involves using high field NMR spectroscopy, SANS and SACS to study biological macromolecular machines.
Ersan Üstündag (Term expires December 2008) Iowa State University ustundag@iastate.edu	Ames Laboratory / Iowa State University. Work focused in the field of Engineering Diffraction. Research on application and development of advanced neutron and X-ray scattering techniques in materials, mechanical behavior of and internal stresses in bulk metallic glasses and their composites, thin film mechanics, solid state reactions and phase transformations as related to internal stress evolution.