Joint Institute for Neutron Sciences

JINS Administration
Name Title Email Phone
Takeshi Egami JINS Director egami@utk.edu (865) 574-5165
Meiyun Chang-Smith Associate Director for Education changsmithm@ornl.gov (865) 574-9065
Mark Dadmun Associate Director for Outreach dad@utk.edu (865) 574-9663
Hope Moore-Webb Administrative Assistant hmoore2@utk.edu (865) 576-8360
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JINS Faculty

 (arranged alphabetically by research area)
Name & Title Affiliation Email Phone

Condensed Matter Physics
 
Hahn Choo
Associate Professor		 University of Tennessee
Oak Ridge National Laboratory		 hchoo@utk.edu (865) 974-3643
Research Area: Advanced Structural Alloys and
Structural Materials Research
 
Pengcheng Dai
Professor		 University of Tennessee
Oak Ridge National Laboratory		 daip@ornl.gov (865) 574-5233
Research Area: Experimental Condensed Matter Physics
 
Takeshi Egami
Distinguished Professor		 University of Tennessee
Oak Ridge National Laboratory		 egami@utk.edu (865) 574-5165
Research Area: High-Temperature Superconductivity,
Electronic Oxides, Structure and Dynamics of Liquids and Glasses
Egami Associated Group Members
Wojciech Dmowski
Research Associate Professor		 University of Tennessee wdmowski@utk.edu (865) 574-5165
Konstantin Lokshin
Research Assistant Professor		 University of Tennessee lokshin@utk.edu (865) 576-8643
Takuya Iwashita
Post-Doctoral Research Associate		 University of Tennessee tiwashit@utk.edu (865) 576-8654
Valentin Levashov
Post-Doctoral Research Associate		 University of Tennessee levashov@utk.edu (865) 576-8654
Madhusudan Ojha
Post-Doctoral Research Associate		 University of Tennessee mojha@utk.edu (865) 576-8656
  Wei Guo
Graduate Research Assistant		 University of Tennessee wguo2@utk.edu  
  Jennifer Niedziela
Graduate Research Assistant		 University of Tennessee jniedzie@utk.edu  
 
David Mandrus
Professor		 University of Tennessee
Oak Ridge National Laboratory		 dmandrus@utk.edu (865) 574-6282
Research Area: Materials Physics of New Electronic and
Magnetic Materials, Oxide Electronics
Mandrus Associated Group Members
Jiaqiang Yan
Research Assistant Professor		 University of Tennessee jqyan@utk.edu  
Guixin Cao
Post-Doctoral Research Associate		 University of Tennessee gcao1@utk.edu  
Amal al-Wahish
Graduate Research Assistant		 University of Tennessee wahish@utk.edu  
Nirmal Ghimire
Graduate Research Assistant		 University of Tennessee nghimire@utk.edu  
  Yuen Yiu
Graduate Research Assistant		 University of Tennessee yiuy@ornl.gov  
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Soft Matter & Biological Physics
 
Wei-Ren Chen
Scientist		 Oak Ridge National Laboratory chenw@ornl.gov (865) 574-7979
 
Chen Associated Group Members
Xin Li
Postdoctoral Research Associate		 Oak Ridge National Laboratory lix1@ornl.gov  
Luis Enrique Sánchez-Díaz
Postdoctoral Research Associate		 Oak Ridge National Laboratory sanchezdiazl@ornl.gov  
Bin Wu
Graduate Student		 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Oak Ridge National Laboratory		 wub1@ornl.gov  
 
Mark Dadmun
Professor		 University of Tennessee
Oak Ridge National Laboratory		 dad@utk.edu (865) 574-9663
Research Area: Polymer and Physical Chemistry
 
John Katsaras
Distinguished R&D Staff/Senior Scientist		 Oak Ridge National Laboratory katsarasj@ornl.gov (865) 576-5287
Research Area: Structural Determination of Biologically Relevant Systems
and Their Interactions
Katsaras Associated Group Members
Xiaolin Cheng
Staff Scientist		 Oak Ridge National Laboratory chengx@ornl.gov (865) 576-0850
Bob Standaert
Staff Scientist		 Oak Ridge National Laboratory standaertrf@ornl.gov (865) 574-2631
Frederick Heberle
ORAU Fellow		 Oak Ridge National Laboratory heberlefa@ornl.gov (865) 576-8802
Jianjun Pan
ORAU Fellow		 Oak Ridge National Laboratory panj@ornl.gov (865) 576-5841
Paul Drazba
Graduate Student		 University of Tennessee pdrazba@utk.edu  
 
Jeremy Smith
Governor's Chair Professor		 University of Tennessee
Oak Ridge National Laboratory		 smithjc@ornl.gov (865) 574-9635
Research Area: Neutron Scattering in Biology
Smith Associated Group Members
Loukas Petridis
Research Staff Scientist		 Oak Ridge National Laboratory petridisl@ornl.gov (865) 576-2567
Liang Hong
Postdoctoral Research Associate		 Oak Ridge National Laboratory hongl@ornl.gov (865) 576-2576
Yinglong Miao
Postdoctoral Research Associate		 University of Tennessee
Oak Ridge National Laboratory		 miaoy@ornl.gov (865) 241-3063
Zheng Yi
Postdoctoral Research Associate		 Oak Ridge National Laboratory yiz1@ornl.gov (865) 241-3063
 
Alexei Sokolov
Governor's Chair Professor		 University of Tennessee
Oak Ridge National Laboratory		 sokolov@utk.edu (865) 974-3852
Research Area: Dynamics of Soft Materials and Molecular Biophysics
Sokolov Associated Group Members
Vladimir Novikov
Research Associate Professor		 University of Tennessee novikov@utk.edu  
Jonathan Nickels
Research Associate		 University of Tennessee jnickel11@utk.edu  
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Fundamental Neutron Physics
 
Geoffrey Greene
Professor		 University of Tennessee
Oak Ridge National Laboratory		 greenegl@ornl.gov (865) 574-8435
Research Area: Fundamental Neutron Physics and Nuclear Physics
Greene Associated Group Members
  David Bowman
Physicist		 Oak Ridge National Laboratory bowmanjd@ornl.gov  
  Seppo Penttila
Physicist		 Oak Ridge National Laboratory penttilasi@ornl.gov  
  Stefan Baessler
Professor		 University of Virginia    
  Nadia Fomin
Post-Doctoral Fellow		 Los Alamos National Laboratory nfomin@utk.edu  
  Serpil Kucuker Dogan
Post-Doctoral Fellow		 University of Tennessee skucuker@utk.edu  
  Septimiu Balascuta
Graduate Research Assistant		 Arizona State University sbalascu@asu.edu  
  Chad Gillis
Graduate Research Assistant		 Indiana University    
  Elise Martin
Graduate Research Assistant		 University of Kentucky elise.martin@uky.edu  
  Matthew Musgrave
Graduate Research Assistant		 University of Tennessee
mmusgrave@utk.edu		  
  Zhaowen Tang
Graduate Research Assistant		 Indiana University    
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Visiting & Associated Scientists

Name Affliation Email
Jae-Ho Chung
Associate Professor 		Korea University jaehc@korea.ac.kr
 
Tetsu Ichistubo
Associate Professor 		Kyoto University tichi@mtl.kyoto-u.ac.jp
 
Kenneth Kelton
Professor/Chair		 Washington University in St. Louis kfk@physics.wustl.edu
 
Jan Kmetko
Assistant Professor		 Kenyon College kmetkoj@kenyon.edu
 
Magdaleno Medina Noyola
Professor		 Universidad Autónoma De San Luis Potosí medina@dec1.ifisica.uaslp.mx
 
Sergey Vakrushev
Professor		 Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute s.vakhrushev@mail.ioffe.ru
 
Dean Waldow
Professor		 Pacific Lutheran University waldow@chem.plu.edu
 
Weizhong Yuan
Associate Professor		 Tongji University yuanwz@tongji.edu.cn
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