Prof. Gary Rubloff

• Postdoctoral Fellow in Physics, Brown University (1971-1973)
• Ph.D. in Physics, University of Chicago (1971)
• M.S. in Physics, University of Chicago (1967)
• B.A. in Physics, Dartmouth College (1966)

Professor Rubloff is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, with primary appointments in Materials Science and Engineering and the Institute for Systems Research (ISR). From 2009 to 2020 he was Director of a DOE Energy Frontier Research Center “Nanostructures for Electrical Energy Storage (NEES)”. He was the founding Director of the Maryland NanoCenter from 2004-2018, and before that ISR Director 1996-2001.

Before joining academia, he served for 20 years in a variety of research and management positions at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights. He then served as the associate director of North Carolina State University’s NSF Engineering Research Center for Advanced Electronic Materials Processing.  Click here for more details.

Dr. Keith Gregorczyk

• Postdoctoral Fellow at CIC nanoGUNE, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain (2013-2014)
• Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland (2013)
• M.S. in Applied Physics, University of Massachusetts (2006)
• B.A. in Physics, Connecticut State University

Research Focus: ALD materials synthesis, nanoscale solid-state batteries and capacitors
Contact: kgregorc@umd.edu
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Dr. David Stewart

• Ph.D. in Physics, University of Maine (2016)
• B.S. in Physics, University of Florida (2011)

Research Focus: Continuum-scale modeling in solid-state batteries, development of thin film multilayered batteries
Contact: steward@umd.edu

Victoria Ferrari

• M.S. in Nanoscience and Advanced Materials, Federal University of ABC (2018)
• B.S. in Energy Engineering, Federal University of ABC (2017)
• B.S. in Science and Technology, Federal University of ABC (2015)

Research Focus: Development and characterization of thin film electrochemically active materials, thin film multilayered solid-state battery, interfacial processes in solid-state batteries
Contact: ferrariv@umd.edu

Daniela Fontecha

• B.S. in Chemistry, North Carolina State University (2020)
• B.A. in Physics, North Carolina State University (2020)

Research Focus: ALD process development and characterization of solid electrolyte materials
Contact: drfontec@umd.edu

Stefan Theodoru

• B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland (2021)
• B.S. in International Business, John Hopkins University (2014)

Research Focus: Thin film patterned solid-state battery architectures; neuromorphic devices and memory materials
Contact: stheodo@umd.edu

John Michael Hoerauf

• B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland (2020)

Research Focus: Neuromorphic devices and memory materials
Contact: jhoerauf@umd.edu

Leopoldo Tapia-Aracayo

• B.A. in Physics, Berea College (2023)

Research focus: Development of novel on-chip solid-state architectures, interfaces in solid-state batteries

Contact: ltapiaar@umd.edu