Mikko Haataja

Mikko Haataja
Title/Position
Professor
Degree
Ph.D., McGill University, 2003

Contact

D404C Engineering Quadrangle

Faculty Assistant

Ping Yan

Research Areas

Short Bio

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.