- Director, Materials Characterization & Fabrication Core Facility
- eafraki@mtu.edu
- 906-487-2637
- Cell: 906-370-6538
- M&M Building 716
Links of Interest
Vanessa Cubillos Tellez
- Research Scientist, Biological Sciences
- vcubillo@mtu.edu
- GLRC 115
Research Interests
- Limnology
- Biogeochemistry
- Impacts of climate change on aquatic ecosystems
- Environmental remediation
Jennifer Eikenberry
- Assistant Research Scientist
- jreikenb@mtu.edu
- 906-487-1774
- Cell: 906-370-8726
- Noblet Building 165
Links of Interest
Specialties
- Laboratory for Environmental Analysis of Forests Core Lab (LEAF)
- Mass Spectrometry Core Lab
- Stable isotopes
- Forest ecology
- Mass spectrometry
- Research Scientist
Research Interests
- Nanostructured materials characterization
- Electron Optics Core Facility
Katherine Jarvis
- Lab Technician
- Senior Research Engineer/Scientist II
- Adjunct Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
- ealaitil@mtu.edu
- 906-369-2041
- M & M Building 628
Links of Interest
Teaching Interests
- Focus on X-ray diffraction techniques
Research Interests
- X-ray diffraction theory and applications
- Mechanical alloying
- Intermetallic materials
- Physical metallurgy
- Nanoscale materials
- Materials characterization
- Powder metallurgy
Timothy Leftwich
- Materials Trainer
- trleftwi@mtu.edu
- Cell: 804-691-3243
- M & M Building 633
Research Interests
- Surfaces and interfaces
- Surface functionalization, thin films, photovoltaics and catalytic surfaces
- Material characterization by X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS (ESCA)), SEM, Auger and Raman spectroscopy
Murphy Mallow
- Research Technician
- mamallow@mtu.edu
- Cell: 906-396-9272
- M&M 423
- Research Scientist, Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering
- Lab Manager, Mass Spectrometry Core Lab
- Research Associate, Chemistry
- zhimins@mtu.edu
- 906-487-1469
- 115 GLRC
Links of Interest
Joey Tomei
- Research Engineer I
- jftomei@mtu.edu
- Cell: 248-875-5514
- M&M Building 626
Specialties
- Electron Optics Core Facility
- Scanning Probe and Optical Microscopy Core Lab
- X-Ray Analysis Core Facility
- Nano Indentation Core Lab
- SEM Imaging and EDS
- EBSD
- Metallography
- Advanced Electron Microscopy Sample Preparation Techniques
- carbon coating
- cross sectional polishing
- anodizing, and so on
- XRD
- XRF
- AZtec