Professor Goldman's research interests are in the atomic-scale design of electronic materials with a focus on the mechanisms of strain relaxation, alloy formation and diffusion, and correlations between microstructure and electronic, magnetic, and optical properties of semiconductor films, nanostructures, and heterostructures. Currently, Goldman's group is focusing on the design and fabrication of nanocomposites with precisely tuned physical and chemical structure using focused-ion-beam assisted molecular-beam epitaxy. In addition, her group is developing a new understanding of the influence of nanostructuring on the transport of phonons and charge carriers using scanning probe microscopy-based techniques.