Title/Position Professor

Degree Ph.D., McGill University, 2003

Contact

mhaataja@Princeton.EDU
(609) 258-9126
D404C Engineering Quadrangle
Haataja Group

Faculty Assistant

Melissa Nini
609-258-2034
mn15@princeton.edu

Research Areas

Biomechanics and Biomaterials
Materials Science

Short Bio

NSF Career Award E-Council Teaching Award Winner (2nd time) Howard B. Wentz, Jr. Junior Faculty Award (2007)
Professor Haataja's research focuses on theoretical and computational materials science, physics of materials, and physical biology. Current work includes studies of microstructure formation during solid-solid phase transformations and solidification, growth of electrodeposited thin films and quantum heterostructures, dynamics of driven interfaces in the presence of mobile impurities, recrystallization kinetics, signaling in cells, and regulation & self-organization of "lipid rafts" in the plasma membrane
Publications
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