Jim Anderegg
137 Wilhelm
Tel: 515-294-2546
email: anderegg@ameslab.gov
Research Focus: Assists the Materials Preparation Center with the operation of the Aüger Electron Spectrometer (AES).

Dan Barnard
207 Metals Development
Tel: 515-294-9998
email: dbarnard@ameslab.gov
Research Focus: Non linear ultrasonics.

Matt Besser
108 Metals Development
Tel: 515-294-6719
email: besser@ameslab.gov
Research Focus: Thermal spray coatings and devitrification studies of bulk metallic glasses; fabrication and microstructural characterization of amorphous, quasicrystalline, intermetallic, ceramic, and composite coatings via thermal spraying techniques; development of structure-property relationships in plasma sprayed coatings.

Joel Harringa
252 Spedding
Tel: 515-294-3630
email: harringa@ameslab.gov
Research Focus: Mechanical alloying, hot consolidation of powders, synthesis and properties of hard materials, the microstructural and mechanical properties of lead free solders, fabrication and electrical property measurements of thermoelectric materials, and x-ray diffraction.

Mianliang Huang
16 Wilhelm
Tel: 515-294-8685
email: mhuang@ameslab.gov
Research Focus: Experimental investigation on iron-based magnetostrictive alloys including alloy design, crystal growth & characterization, and magnetic properties analysis.

Alfred Kracher
227 Wilhelm Hall
Tel: 515-294-7097
email: akracher@ameslab.gov
Research Focus: Materials analysis by electron microprobe

Yaroslav Mudryk
239 Spedding
Tel: 515-294-2728
email: slavkomk@ameslab.gov
Research Focus: Intermetallic compounds of rare-earth elements including magneto-responsive materials and ductile B2-type alloys; X-ray powder diffraction investigation of crystalline materials at various temperatures and applied magnetic fields.

Trevor Riedemann
122 Metals Development
Tel: 515-294-1366
email:riedemann@ameslab.gov
Research Focus: Preparation of high purity rare earth metals and alloys.
Materials Preparation Center

Deborah Schlagel
110 Metals Develoment
Tel: 515-294-3924
email: schlagel@iastate.edu
Research Focus: Single crystal growth of magnetic and intermetallic alloys; single crystal characterization, including x-ray diffraction, energy dispersive spectroscopy and metallography.

Emrah Simsek
116 Wilhelm Hall
Tel: 515-294-8916
email: emrah@iastate.edu
Research Focus: Experimental investigation of solidification dynamics and solid-liquid interfacial phenomena.

Wei Tang
16 Wilhelm
Tel: 515-294-8685
email: weitang@ameslab.gov
Research focus: Experimental investigation in rapid solidification and powder metallurgy, including alloy design, fabrication & characterization of rare earth magnetic materials and compounds; development of permanent magnets with high temperature performance.

Vadim Varchavski
112 Wilhelm Hall
Tel: 515-294-9636
email: warsh@ameslab.gov
Research focus:

Yaqiao Wu
136A Wilhelm
Tel: 515-294-7587
email: yqwu@ameslab.gov
Research Focus: Materials design, synthesis, property analysis, nanoscale structure and chemical characterization by utilization of the combination of Transmission Electron Microscopy and Atom Probe Tomography; major focus on nanocrystalline rare earth hard magnetic materials and compounds, quasicrystals.

Xiao-Yun Yang
205 Metals Development
Tel: 515-294-4312
email: xyang@ameslab.gov
Research Focus:Works with Dan Sordelet's research group.

Shihuai Zhou
116 Wilhelm
Tel: 515-294-8916
email: szhou@ameslab.gov
Research Focus: Materials design based on the experimental (calorimeter measurement, x-ray, SEM and TEM) investigation, first-principles calculation, computational thermodynamics and kinetics; computational-tools development to predict the relationships among the chemistry, microstructure and physical properties for the rapid solidification materials.