Distinguished University Professor Ellen Williams earned her B.S. in 1976 from Michigan State University and her Ph.D. in 1981 from the California Institute of Technology. Her research interests are in surface chemistry and nanotechnology. She founded the University of Maryland Materials Research Science and Engineering Center and served as its Director from 1996 through 2009. She served as Chief Scientist at BP from 2010-14, and as Director of the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) from 2014 until early 2017. 

Research Area:

• Condensed Matter Experiment

Research Projects:

• Surface Physics
• Nanoelectronic materials
• Experimental statistical mechanics
• Flexible electronics

Notable Publications

Centers & Institutes:  Quantum Materials Center; Institute for Physical Science & Technology; Materials Research Science & Engineering Center

• Physics 662: Intersections of Technology and Policy in Modernizing the Energy System 
• PLCY699B Intersections of Technology and Policy: Modernizing the Energy System 
• Physics 662: Intersections of Technology and Policy 

• Ellen Williams Named Director of ESSIC
• Ellen Williams Named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Ellen Williams Returns to UMD
• Ellen Williams Named Caltech Distinguished Alumna
• Ellen Williams Elected Foreign Member of the Royal Society
• Ellen Williams Interviewed in Scientific American
• Ellen Williams Nominated to Key Administration Post

Fred Wellstood received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and completed a postdoctoral appointment there before accepting a faculty position at UMD. He is a member of the Quantum Materials Center and the Joint Quantum Institute. He has served as the Department’s Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education, and was a key player in planning the new Physical Sciences Complex at UMD. His work is in experimental superconductivity, including quantum computing and 3D magnetic imaging using SQUIDs.

Research:

• Condensed Matter Experiment
• Quantum Science and Technology

Research Projects:

• Quantum computing using superconducting devices
• Scanning SQUID Microscopy

Centers & Institutes: Quantum Materials Center; Joint Quantum Institute;Physics Frontier Center

• Physics 107: Light, Perception, Photography & Visual Phenomena Laboratory
• Physics 260: Vibrations, Waves, Heat, Electricity & Magnetism
• Physics 261: Vibrations, Waves, Heat, Electricity & Magnetims: Laboratory
• Physics 271: Electrodynamics, Light, Relativity & Modern Physics: Laboratory
• Physics 275: Experimental Physics I
• Physics 276: Experimental Physics II
• Physics 375: Experimental Physics III: Electromagnetic Waves, Optics and Modern Physics

Andris Skuja is Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he has been on the faculty for more than 30 years. Dr. Skuja has extensive experience in international high-energy projects, and has worked at the DESY accelerator facility in Germany and the OPAL experiment at CERN prior to joining the Large Hadron Collider's Compact Muon Solenoid collaboration. For CMS, Dr. Skuja serves as Project Manager for the hadron calorimeter, a position that entails considerable travel and international scientific and engineering liaison.

Research Area:

• High Energy Physics

• Physics 103: Physics of Music Laboratory
• Physics107: Light, Perception, Photography & Visual Phenomena Laboratory
• Physics 161: General Physics: Mechanics and Particle Dynamics
• Physics 260: Vibrations, Waves, Heat, Electricity & Magnetism
• Physics 375: Experimental Physics III: Electromagnetic Waves, Optics and Modern Physics