Engineers and materials scientists

Dennis Hart Mahan

Dennis Hart Mahan (1802–1871) was an American military engineer and West Point professor of civil and military engineering from 1832 to 1871, who wrote the first American books on fortifications and civil engineering.

Oct 10, 2026

Dennis Hong

Dennis Hong is a roboticist, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at UCLA, and founding director of RoMeLa, known for humanoid robots such as DARwIn-OP and ARTEMIS.

Dennis M. Bushnell

Dennis M. Bushnell was an American aerospace scientist who spent 60 years at NASA's Langley Research Center, the last 28 as Chief Scientist, retiring in 2023.

Dennis Meier

Dennis Meier is a materials scientist working on ferroelectric domain walls and oxide nanoelectronics, known for half-wave rectification at domain walls and a 2025 cryogenic memristor.

Derek H. Warner

Derek H. Warner is an engineering researcher who studies metal deformation and fracture through atomic-level simulation, formerly a Cornell professor and PECASE awardee now at the University of Canterbury.

Derek R. Gaston

Derek R. Gaston is an American computational nuclear engineer who founded the MOOSE multiphysics simulation framework at Idaho National Laboratory and received the Presidential Early Career Award.

Derya Baran

Derya Baran is a Turkish materials scientist and associate professor at KAUST in Saudi Arabia who works on organic semiconductors for solar cells and thermoelectrics, leading the OMEGA Laboratory.

Devendra Narain Singh

Devendra Narain Singh is an Indian geotechnical engineer and Institute Chair Professor at IIT Bombay, known for environmental geotechnology, laboratory instrumentation, and gas hydrate bearing sediments.

Devin G. Peterson

Devin G. Peterson is an American flavor chemist who studies the chemical stimuli behind taste, smell, and mouthfeel, and received the Presidential Early Career Award in 2004.

Di Wei

Di Wei (魏迪) is a Chinese electrochemist and nanotechnologist who heads the Iontronics Laboratory at the Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, known for iontronic energy storage and triboiontronics.

Dianzuo Wang

Dianzuo Wang (Wang Dianzuo, 1934–2023) was a Chinese mineral processing scientist known for flotation theory and reagent design, a member of the Chinese and US engineering academies who died in 2023.

Dick K.P. Yue

Dick K.P. Yue is an American mechanical and ocean engineer at MIT, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020 and originator of MIT OpenCourseWare.

Dierk Raabe

Dierk Raabe is a German metallurgist, director of the Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials in Düsseldorf since 1999, known for crystal plasticity simulation and green steel.

Dieter Neher

Dieter Neher is a physicist who has been Professor of Soft Matter Physics and Optoelectronics at the University of Potsdam since 1998, studying organic and perovskite solar cells.

Dimitar P. Filev

Dimitar P. Filev is an engineer who spent 28 years at Ford Motor Company as Senior Henry Ford Technical Fellow and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2018.

Dimitri A. Antoniadis

Dimitri A. Antoniadis is a Greek-born electrical engineer and emeritus MIT professor known for pioneering contributions to MOSFETs and silicon process modeling, including the SUPREM simulators.

Dimos Poulikakos

Dimos Poulikakos (born 1955) is a thermodynamicist who was Professor of Thermodynamics at ETH Zurich from 1996 to 2024, having founded its Laboratory of Thermodynamics in Emerging Technologies.

Dino Di Carlo

Dino Di Carlo is an American bioengineer who chairs the Bioengineering Department at UCLA, known for pioneering inertial microfluidics and lab-on-a-particle technologies such as nanovials, and for co-founding several biotechnology startups.

Dionisios G. Vlachos

Dionisios G. Vlachos is a chemical and biomolecular engineer at the University of Delaware, a founder of multiscale modeling in catalysis and plastics upcycling research.

Dionysios D. Dionysiou

Dionysios D. Dionysiou (Greek: Διονύσιος Δ. Διονυσίου; 1966–2023) was a Cypriot-born environmental engineer and University of Cincinnati professor known for pioneering sulfate-radical advanced oxidation processes for water treatment.

Dipan Kundu

Dipan Kundu is an Associate Professor of chemical engineering at UNSW Sydney known for aqueous rechargeable zinc batteries, including a high-capacity design published in Nature Energy in 2016.

Diran Apelian

Diran Apelian is an American materials engineer, Distinguished Professor at UC Irvine, known for solidification processing, powder metallurgy, and the aluminum alloys in the Audi A8.

Dmitri Golberg

Dmitri Golberg is a Russian-born materials scientist known for pioneering boron nitride nanotube research, who spent two decades at NIMS in Japan before joining Queensland University of Technology in 2017.

Oct 22, 2026

DNA-guided nanoparticle assembly

DNA-guided nanoparticle assembly is a nanotechnology method in which DNA strands attached to nanoparticles act as programmable bonds that direct particles into ordered crystals with nanoscale precision.

Do Hwan Kim

Do Hwan Kim (김도환) is a South Korean chemical engineer and HYU Distinguished Professor at Hanyang University, known for stretchable electronic skins, iontronic devices, and organic microdisplay research.

Domenic Forte

Domenic Forte is an American electrical engineer and professor at the University of Florida whose research covers hardware security, counterfeit integrated circuits, hardware Trojans, and supply-chain integrity.

Dominic M. Di Toro

Dominic M. Di Toro is an American environmental engineer at the University of Delaware, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2005 for his water-quality models.

Dominik Schillinger

Dominik Schillinger is a computational mechanics researcher and Full Professor at TU Darmstadt, known for immersogeometric analysis of heart valves and winner of the US PECASE award.

Don Giddens

Don Giddens is an American biomedical engineer who established the fluid mechanics theory of atherosclerosis and led Georgia Tech's College of Engineering from 2002 to 2011.