Who We Are
Our Team
Center Directors
S. Pamir Alpay, Ph.D.
Interim Vice President for Research, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
Director, Project Daedalus – Air Force Advanced Manufacturing Initiative
Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Emmanouil Anagnostou, Ph.D.
Interim Executive Director, Innovation Partnership Building at UConn Tech Park
Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Director, Eversource Energy Center
George Bollas, Ph.D.
Professor, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Director, Institute for Advanced Systems Engineering (IASE)
John Chandy, Ph.D.
Department Head and Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Co-director, Connecticut Cybersecurity Center (C3)
Director, Center for Hardware and Embedded Systems Security and Trust
Co-director, Comcast Center of Excellence for Security Innovation (CSI)
Richard Christenson, Ph.D.
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Co-director, National Institute for Undersea Vehicle Technology
Lesley Frame, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Director, Center for Materials Processing Data (CMPD)
Rainer Hebert, Ph.D.
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Director, Pratt & Whitney Additive Manufacturing Center (PW AMC)
Associate Director of the Institute of Materials Science (IMS)
Jeongho Kim
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Director, Connecticut Manufacturing Simulation Center (CMSC)
Joseph Luciani
Director, Proof of Concept Center (POCC)
Director, Quiet Corner Innovation Cluster (QCIC)
Anson W. K. Ma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Director, Center for Science of Heterogeneous Additive Printing of 3D Materials (SHAP3D)
Jeffrey McCutcheon, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Al Geib Professor of Environmental Engineering Research & Education
Director, Connecticut Center for Applied Separations Technology (CCAST)
Laurent Michel, Ph.D.
Associate Head for Undergraduate Studies and Industry Relations, and Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Co-director, Connecticut Cybersecurity Center (C3)
Co-director, Comcast Center of Excellence for Security Innovation (CSI)
Director, Synchrony Financial Center of Excellence in Cybersecurity
Sina Shahbazmohamadi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Director, Reverse Engineering Fabrication Inspection & Non-Destructive Evaluation (REFINE)
Steven L. Suib, Ph.D.
Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
Director of the Institute of Materials Science
Director, UConn Thermo Fisher Scientific Center for Advanced Microscopy and Materials Analysis
Director, Collins Aerospace Center for Advanced Materials
Co-director, UConn DENSsolutions Center for IN-siTu/Operando Electron Microscopy (InToEM)
Yuanyuan Zhu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Director, UConn DENSsolutions Center for IN-siTu/Operando Electron Microscopy (InToEM)
Business Development
Scientific and Technical Staff
Joseph Luciani
Director, Proof of Concept Center (POCC)
Director, Quiet Corner Innovation Cluster (QCIC)
Phone: 860.486.5743
Haiyan Tan, Ph.D.
Electron Microscopy Research Scientist
CAMMA
Phone: 860.486.7983
Building Management and Safety
Administrative Support, Marketing, and Finance
Raelene DeRobertis
Executive Administrative Assistant
Phone: 860.486.1507
Staff from other Research Groups at IPB
