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Caroline A. Ross is the Interim Department Head and Ford Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She completed her PhD at Cambridge University in the UK, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard. She worked on research and development of hard disks at Komag, Inc. in Silicon Valley before joining MIT in 1997. Her group develops magnetic, magnetooptical and multiferroic materials and devices and studies the self-assembly of block copolymers and oxide nanocomposites. Prof. Ross teaches classes on structure of materials and magnetism.

Prof. Caroline Ross
Principal Investigator
Ford Professor of Materials Science & Engineering
Interim Department Head

B.A., Cambridge University, U.K. 1985
Ph.D., Cambridge University, U.K., 1988

Room 13-4005
(617) 258-0223
(617) 252-1020 (fax)
caross@mit.edu

Sarah Ciriello
Administrative Assistant II

Room 13-5110
Phone: (617) 253-1621
sciri@mit.edu

Paul Fourmont
Visiting Scientist

Ph.D. Ecole de Technologie Superiuere, Montreal

Room 13-4025
fourmont@mit.edu

Research field: Perovskites

Yuichiro Kunai
Visiting Scientist, DMSE Department & MIT.nanoentist
M.S. Kyoto University, Japan

Room 13-4025
yukunai@mit.edu

Research field: Magneto-Optical materials for applications

Young Min Kang
Visiting Scientist

Ph.D. (MS Integrated) in Materials Science & Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.

Room 13-4025
kangy@mit.edu

Research field: Magnetic oxides

Kensuke Hayashi
Postdoctoral Associate

Ph.D of Engineering, Gifu University, Japan

Room 13-4025
hayashik@mit.edu

Research Field: Magneto-optical garnets, Oxide nanocomposites, Nanosheets

Mingchao Ma
Postdoctoral Associate

Ph.D. Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China​

Room 13-4037
mingchao@mit.edu

Research field: Block copolymer self-assembly

Jorge Marquez Chavez
Graduate Student

B.S. Physics & B.S. EP: Mechanical Engineering, New Mexico State University

Room 13-4037
jorgema@mit.edu

Research field: Magnetooptical and spintronic thin films

Miela Gross
Graduate Student, EECS Department

B.S. University of California, Berkeley

Room 13-4037
mjgross@mit.edu

Research field: Garnet heterostructures for applications in spintronics.

Tomas Grossmark
Graduate Student

B.S. California Institute of Technology

Room 13-4025
tgrossma@mit.edu

Research field: Magnetic garnet heterostructure

Thy (Ryan) Huynh
Graduate Student

B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley

Room 13-4025
thuynh09@mit.edu

Research field: Ferroelectric thin films

Allison Kaczmarek
Graduate Student

B.S. Materials Science and Engineering &
B.S. Chemistry, Clemson University, South Carolina

Room 13-4017
kacz@mit.edu

Research field:  Ferrimagnetic rare earth iron garnets for thin film

Pete Lauer
Graduate Student

B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University

Room 13-4037
plauer@mit.edu

Research Field: Magneto-optical materials

Cassie (Yixuan) Song
Graduate Student

M.Eng in Materials Science, University of Oxford

Room 13-4037
yixuans@mit.edu

Research field: Ferrimagnetic iron garnets for applications in spintronics

Zehao Sun
Graduate Student

B.S. Peking University, China

Room 13-4025
zehao@mit.edu

Research field: Block copolymer self-assembly​

Bob Zhang
Graduate Student

B. Eng. Tsinghua University

Room 13-4017
bobzh22@mit.edu

Research field: Block copolymer self-assembly​

Maria Aguiar
Undergraduate Student


maguiar@mit.edu

Research field: Ferrimagnetic thin film iron garnets

A list of alumni is available here.