Craig Jon Hawker is an Australian-born chemist. His research has focused on the interface between organic and polymer chemistry, with emphasis on the design, synthesis, and application of well-defined macromolecular structures in biotechnology, microelectronics, and surface science. Hawker holds more than 45 U.S. patents, and he has co-authored over 300 papers in the areas of nanotechnology, materials science, and chemistry. He was listed as one of the top 100 most cited chemists worldwide over the decade 1992–2002, and again in 2000–2010.
Anthony Zee is a Chinese-American physicist, writer, and a professor at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics and the physics department of the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Parviz Moin is a fluid dynamicist. He is the Franklin P. and Caroline M. Johnson Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Moin has been listed as an ISI Highly Cited author in engineering.
Hassan Aref, was the Reynolds Metals Professor in the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Tech, and the Niels Bohr Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Denmark.
Ataç İmamoğlu is a Turkish-Swiss physicist working on quantum optics and quantum computation. His academic interests are quantum optics, semiconductor physics, and nonlinear optics.
The College of Engineering (CoE) is one of the three undergraduate colleges at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The College offers a mid-sized, interdisciplinary environment where innovation drives the development of both fundamental science and applied technology solutions.
Leslie Gary Leal is the Warren & Katharine Schlinger Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, United States. He is known for his research work in the dynamics of complex fluids.
Anthony Glyn Evans was Alcoa Professor of Materials, professor of Mechanical Engineering, director of the Center for Multifunctional Materials and Structures and co-director for the Center for Collaborative Engineering Research and Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara, United States.
Jacob Nissim Israelachvili, was an Israeli physicist who was a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).
Linda Ruth Petzold is a professor of computer science and mechanical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she is also listed as affiliated faculty in the department of mathematics. Her research concerns differential algebraic equations and the computer simulation of large real-world social and biological networks.
Igor Mezić is a mechanical engineer, mathematician, and Distinguished Professor of mechanical engineering and mathematics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is best known for his contributions to operator theoretic, data driven approach to dynamical systems theory that he advanced via articles based on Koopman operator theory, and his work on theory of mixing, that culminated in work on microfluidic mixer design, and mapping oil refuse from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to aid in cleaning efforts.
Ania Bleszynski Jayich is an American experimental physicist most known for developing novel sensing techniques that shed light on biological, condensed matter, and quantum mechanical systems. Bleszynski Jayich is the Bruker Endowed Chair in Science and Engineering in the Department of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Associate Director of the campus’s Materials Research Lab.
Thuc-Quyen Nguyen is Director and Professor at the Center for Polymers and Organic Solids (CPOS), and a professor of the Chemistry & Biochemistry department at the University of California Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on organic electronic devices, using optical, electrical, and structural techniques to understand materials and devices such as photovoltaics, LEDs, photodiodes, and field-effect transistors.
Rachel A. Segalman is the Edward Noble Kramer Professor and Department Chair of Chemical Engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Her laboratory works on semiconducting block polymers, polymeric ionic liquids, and hybrid thermoelectric materials. She is the associated director of the Center for Materials for Water Energy System, an associate editor of ACS Macro Letters, and co-editor of the Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.
Megan T. Valentine is an American engineer. She is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara and associate director of the California NanoSystems Institute. Valentine's research focuses on understanding how forces are generated and transmitted in living materials and how they control cellular outcomes. Valentine is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
Beth L. Pruitt is an American engineer. Upon completing her master's degree in manufacturing systems engineering from Stanford University, Pruitt served as an officer in the United States Navy. She is a full professor of mechanical engineering, biological engineering, and biomolecular science & engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a fellow of both ASME and AIMBE.
Robert Maxwell McMeeking is a Scottish-born engineer. He is currently Tony Evans Distinguished Professor of Structural Materials and of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. McMeeking has been widely recognized for his contributions to applied mechanics for which was awarded the 2014 Timoshenko Medal. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, National Academy of Engineering and American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Joan-Emma Shea is an American chemist who is a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research applies statistical and computational approaches to address biological problems. She is a Fellow of both the American Physical Society and the American Chemical Society, and the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Physical Chemistry.
Juan G. Santiago an American academic. He is the Charles Lee Powell Foundation Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University and the Director of the Stanford Microfluidics Laboratory. His research includes studies of microscale transport and fluid flow phenomena, electrokinetics phenomena, two-phase flow, and coupled flow and reaction processes. This research has applications to microfluidics systems for on-chip chemical and biochemical analysis, biophysics studies of DNA and CRISPR, two-phase flow devices, and capacitive deionization technologies. Applications of this work also include molecular diagnostics, DNA mapping and sequencing, electronics cooling, and the production of drinking water. He serves as the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Cambridge University Press journal Flow. His work is cited more than 1500 times per year and has an h index of 91. He has authored and co-authored over 220 journal papers and 250 conference papers, and he is an inventor in 60 issued patents. He has played a significant role in co-founding several companies specializing in the field of microfluidics.
Petia Mladenova Vlahovska is a Bulgarian engineer specializing in biophysics and fluid mechanics. A 2019 Fellow of the American Physical Society and 2024 Guggenheim Fellow, she is a professor at the McCormick School of Engineering Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics.
