Principal Investigator
Professor and Matthew & Patricia Harthcock CNAS Faculty Fellow
Director of
Materials Science
Graduate Program and the Chair of the
MNAS
Interdisciplinary Program
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Office:
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Kemper Hall Rm.
103N
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Phone:
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417-836-5609
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Fax:
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417-836-5131
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E-mail:
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ridwansakidja@missouristate.edu
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Address:
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Dept. of
Physics,
Astronomy and
Materials
Science
Missouri State
University
921 S John Q
Hammons Pkwy,
Springfield, MO
65897
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Dr. Sakidja is a 2003 graduate of the
University of Wisconsin Madison (UW-Madison) with a PhD in Metallurgy under the
guidance of Prof.
John H. Perepezko. After completing his school, he worked for the
Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UW-Madison both as a
lecturer teaching material thermodynamics and as a materials scientist conducting research on
high-temperature protective coatings and ab-initio molecular
dynamics (AIMD) simulations on molten salts in collaboration with his
mentors Prof.
John Perepezko and Prof.
Dane Morgan respectively. In Spring 2013, he moved to the University of
Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) as an associate research professor in the Department of
Physics & Astronomy collaborating with Curators'
Distinguished Physics Prof. Wai-Yim Ching on the areas of electronic
structure calculations, AIMD simulations and materials genome for high-temperature
structural intermetallics and amorphous silica. In Fall 2014, he joined Missouri
State University (MSU) as an associate professor in the Department of Physics,
Astronomy and Materials Science (PAMS). In Fall 2019, he obtained his full professorship
in the Dept.
MSU is
the only university in the United States that merged Materials Science and
Physics & Astronomy altogether into one department, reflecting one of the dept.'s emphases
in
the interdisciplinary field of materials science. Dr. Sakidja
teaches physics and materials science core courses to undergraduate and/or
graduate students including fundamental
physics, computational physics, math methods, E&M, applied quantum mechanics,
applications of machine learning & neural network, structure of solids, materials thermodynamics, scanning electron microscopy and
computational materials science. His
broad research interests span from developing high temperature and high-strength
protective coatings, ceramics & alloys, designing nano-scale assemblies/layers to
accelerating discovery and synthesis processes of functionalized hybrid structures. He is
also interested in product development and a scale-up process for
commercial applications. Dr. Sakidja serves as the Director of
Materials
Science Graduate Program and
the Chair of
Master of Natural
and Applied Science (MNAS) Interdisciplinary Program. He is
also the recipient of an endowed
Matthew & Patricia Harthcock CNAS Faculty Fellowship.