J. Carson Meredith

J. Carson Meredith

J. Carson Meredith

Executive Director of the Renewable Bioproducts Institute
Professor and James Harris Faculty Fellow, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Meredith is the Executive Director of the Georgia Tech Renewable Bioproducts Institute, and the James Harris Faculty Fellow in ChBE.

Meredith's group researches the surfaces and interfaces of advanced materials. Their work aims to apply fundamentals of polymer, surface and colloid science to find new ways to engineer materials useful to society and industry. In particular, projects emphasize the utilization of renewable components and sustainable processing to achieve circular manufacturing and use of plastics, composites, foams and coatings, among others. Many of these materials are critical for food security, energy efficiency, and are closely connected to greenhouse gas reduction.

carson.meredith@chbe.gatech.edu

404.385.2151

Office Location:
ES&T 1212

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  • Renewable Bioproducts Institute
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    Research Focus Areas:
  • Biobased Materials
  • Biochemicals
  • Biorefining
  • Biotechnology
  • Materials and Nanotechnology
  • Pulp Paper Packaging & Tissue
  • Sustainable Manufacturing
  • Additional Research:

    Catalysis; Cellulosic Nanomaterials; Separation Technologies; Nanocellulose Applications; Aerogels & Hydrogels; Films & Coatings; Coatings & Barriers; Biomaterials


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    Dennis Hess

    Dennis Hess

    Dennis Hess

    Professor Emeritus, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

    Dennis Hess’s research interests are in thin film science and technology, surface and interface modification and characterization, microelectronics processing and electronic materials. His group focuses on the establishment of fundamental structure-property relationships and their connection to chemical process sequences used in the fabrication of novel films, electronic materials, devices, and nanostructures. Control of the surface properties of materials such as dielectrics, semiconductors, metals, and paper or paper board by film deposition or surface modification allows the design of such surfaces for a variety of applications in microelectronics, packaging, sensors, microfluidics, and separation processes.

    dennis.hess@chbe.gatech.edu

    (404) 894-5922

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    Research Focus Areas:
  • Biobased Materials
  • Biochemicals
  • Biorefining
  • Biotechnology
  • Electronic Materials
  • Miniaturization & Integration
  • Pulp Paper Packaging & Tissue
  • Sustainable Manufacturing
  • Use & Conservation
  • Additional Research:
    Electronics; Thin Films; Surfaces and Interfaces; plasma processing; Papermaking; Coatings & Barriers; Films & Coatings; Biomaterials

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    Mark Losego

    Mark Losego

    Mark Losego

    Associate Professor, MSE Faculty Fellow, and Dean’s Education Innovation Professor
    IMS Initiative Lead, AI for Chemicals and Materials Discovery

    Mark D. Losego is an associate professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech. The Losego research lab focuses on materials processing to develop novel organic-inorganic hybrid materials and interfaces for microelectronics, sustainable energy devices, national security technologies, and advanced textiles. The Losego Lab combines a unique set of solution and vapor phase processing methods to convert organic polymers into organic-inorganic hybrid materials, including developing the science to scale these processes for manufacturing.  Prof. Losego’s work is primarily experimental, and researchers in his lab gain expertise in the vapor phase processing of materials (atomic layer deposition, physical vapor deposition, vapor phase infiltration, etc.), the design and construction of vacuum equipment, interfacial and surface science, and materials and surface characterization. Depending on the project, Losego Lab researchers explore a variety of properties ranging from electrical to electrochemical to optical to thermal to sorptive to catalytic and more.

    losego@gatech.edu

    404.385.3630

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  • Research Focus Areas:
  • Biobased Materials
  • Biochemicals
  • Biorefining
  • Biotechnology
  • Electronic Materials
  • Pulp Paper Packaging & Tissue
  • Sustainable Manufacturing
  • Additional Research:
    Catalysis; Cellulose Nanomaterials; Coatings; Coatings and Barriers; Corrosion & Materials Engineering; Corrosion and Reliability; Energy; Films and Coatings; Microporous Materials; Nanocellulose Applications; Nanomaterials; New Materials; Polymers; Vapor Phase Processing

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    Zhiqun Lin

    Zhiqun Lin

    Zhiqun Lin

    Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

    Zhiqun Lin is currently Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research focuses on nanostructured functional materials (NanoFM). An extensive list of materials currently under investigation in his group includes polymer-based nanocomposites, block copolymers, polymer blends, conjugated polymers, quantum dots (rods, tetrapods, wires), magnetic nanocrystals, metallic nanocrystals, semiconductor metal oxide nanocrystals, ferroelectric nanocrystals, multiferroic nanocrystals, upconversion nanocrystals, thermoelectric nancrystals, core/shell nanoparticles (nanorods), hollow nanocrystals, Janus nanocrystals, nanopores, nanotubes, hierarchically structured and assembled materials, and semiconductor organic-inorganic nanohybrids.

    The goal of his research is to understand the fundamentals of these nanostructured materials. His group intends to create these nanostructures in a precisely controllable manner and to exploit the structure-property relationships in the development of multifunctional materials for potential use in energy conversion (e.g., solar cells, photocatalysis, and hydrogen generation) and storage (e.g., batteries), electronics, optics, optoelectronics, magnetic materials and devices, nanotechnology, and biotechnology.

    zhiqun.lin@mse.gatech.edu

    404.385.4404

    Office Location:
    MOSE 3100K

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    Research Focus Areas:
  • Energy Generation, Storage, and Distribution
  • Materials for Energy
  • Additional Research:
    Nanocomposites; Polymeric Composites; Polymers; Nanocrystals; Self-Assembly; Solar Cells; Batteries; Composites; Nanostructures; Electronics; Energy Storage

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    Edmond Chow

     Edmond Chow

    Edmond Chow

    Professor, School of Computational Science and Engineering

    Edmond Chow is a Professor in the School of Computational Science in the College of Computing. He previously held positions at D. E. Shaw Research and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. His research is in developing and applying numerical methods and high-performance computing to solve large-scale scientific computing problems and seeks to enable scientists and engineers to solve larger problems more efficiently using physical simulation. Specific interests include numerical linear algebra (preconditioning, multilevel methods, sparse matrix computations) and parallel methods for quantum chemistry, molecular dynamics, and Brownian/Stokesian dynamics.  Chow earned an Honors B.A.Sc. in systems design engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 1993, and a Ph.D. in computer science with a minor in aerospace engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1997. Chow was awarded the 2009 ACM Gordon Bell prize and the 2002 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

    echow@cc.gatech.edu

    404.894.3086

    Office Location:
    CODA S1311

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    Research Focus Areas:
  • Delivery & Storage
  • High Performance Computing
  • Policy & Economics
  • Additional Research:
    High performance computing, materials, data Sciences, cyber/ information technology, quantum information sciences

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    J. David Frost

    J. David Frost

    James Frost

    Elizabeth and Bill Higginbotham Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
    Group Coordinator, Geosystems Engineering Group

    James David Frost is the Elizabeth and Bill Higginbotham Professor of civil engineering. He received B.A.I and B.A. degrees in civil engineering and mathematics, respectively, from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland in 1980 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in civil engineering in 1986 and 1989 from Purdue University. Prior to serving as a member of the faculty at Purdue University and Georgia Tech, he worked in industry in Ireland and Canada on a range of natural resource related projects ranging from tailings impoundments to artificial sand islands in the Arctic for oil exploration. At Georgia Tech, where he has been for almost 20 years, he has served as head of the Geosystems Engineering Group and as founding director of the Georgia Tech Regional Engineering Program and subsequently the Georgia Tech Savannah campus.

    david.frost@ce.gatech.edu

    404.894.2280

    Office Location:
    Mason 2285

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    Research Focus Areas:
  • Materials and Nanotechnology
  • Additional Research:
    Micro and nanomechanics, geomaterials, composites, sustainable communities

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    Natalie Stingelin

    Natalie  Stingelin

    Natalie Stingelin

    Professor, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

    Previously a professor of organic functional materials at the Department of Materials, Imperial College of London, Natalie Stingelin joined Georgia Tech in 2016. She focuses her research on the broad field of organic functional materials, including organic electronics; multifunctional inorganic/organic hybrids; smart, advanced optical systems based on organic matter; and bioelectronics. Associate Editor of the Journal of Materials Chemistry, she has published more than 130 papers and 6 issued patents. She is a co-investigator of the newly established EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Large Area Electronics, and she leads the EC Marie-Curie Training Network 'INFORM' that involves 11 European partners. She was awarded the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining's Rosenhain Medal and Prize (2014) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) President's International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI) Award for Visiting Scientists (2015).

    natalie.stingelin@mse.gatech.edu

    404.894.5192

    Office Location:
    ES&T L1220

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  • Stingelin Lab
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    Research Focus Areas:
  • Nanomaterials
  • Additional Research:
    Organic electronics; Bioelectronics

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    Martin Mourigal

    Martin Mourigal

    Martin Mourigal

    Professor, School of Physics
    Initiative Lead, Georgia Tech Quantum Alliance

    Martin Mourigal received the B.S in Materials from Ecole des Mines de Nancy in 2004. He later received his M.S. and Ph.D. in physics from Ecole Polytechnique Federale (EPFL) located in Lausanne, Switzerland in 2007 and 2011, respectively. He was also a postdoctoral research fellow in John Hopkins University from 2011 until 2014. He joined Georgia Tech in 2015 and is currently an assistant professor in the School of Physics. Mourigal's lab focuses on the study of collective electronic and magnetic phenomena in quantum materials. His research exploits the unique strengths of neutron and X-ray scattering to probe the organization and the dynamics of matter at the nanoscale.In addition to his own lab research, Mourigal is the co-director of the Georgia Tech Quantum Alliance, a university wide program that will work towards solving problems in optimization, cryptography, and artificial intelligence. Mourigal was awarded the Cullen Peck Faculty Scholar Award from Georgia Tech in 2019. He was also awarded the National Science Foundation CAREER Award for excellence as a young educator and researcher in 2018.

    mourigal@gatech.edu

    404.385.5669

    Office Location:
    Howey C202

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    University, College, and School/Department
    Research Focus Areas:
  • Miniaturization & Integration
  • Quantum Computing
  • Use & Conservation
  • Additional Research:
    Quantum Materials, Micro and Nanomechanics, Ferroelectronic Materials, Materials Data Sciences, Electronics

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    Zhigang Jiang

    Zhigang Jiang

    Zhigang Jiang

    Professor, School of Physics
    Initiative Lead, Georgia Tech Quantum Alliance

    Zhigang Jiang received his B.S. in physics in 1999 from Beijing University and his Ph.D. in 2005 from Northwestern University. He was also a postdoctoral research associate at Columbia University jointly with Princeton University and NHMFL from 2005 till 2008. Jiang is interested in the quantum transport and infrared optical properties of low dimensional condensed matter systems. The current ongoing projects include: (1) infrared spectroscopy study of graphene and topological insulators, (2) spin transport in graphene devices, and (3) Andreev reflection spectroscopy of candidate topological superconductors.

    zhigang.jiang@physics.gatech.edu

    404.385.3906

    Office Location:
    Boggs B-18

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  • Jiang Group Website
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    University, College, and School/Department
    Research Focus Areas:
  • Electronic Materials
  • Energy Utilization and Conservation
  • Nanomaterials
  • Optics & Photonics
  • Additional Research:
    quantum materials; nanoelectronics; Graphene; Epitaxial Growth

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    Laurence Jacobs

    Laurence Jacobs

    Laurence Jacobs

    Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and School of Mechanical Engineering
    Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Engineering

    Laurence J. Jacobs is associate dean for academic affairs in the College of Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, professor of civil and environmental engineering, and professor of mechanical engineering. Jacobs received his Ph.D. in engineering mechanics from Columbia University and joined the faculty of Georgia Tech in 1988. Prior to receiving his Ph.D., he worked for two years in the aerospace industry and for one year as a structural engineer.

    Professor Jacobs’ research focuses on the development of quantitative methodologies for the nondestructive evaluation and life prediction of structural materials. This includes the application of nonlinear ultrasound for the characterization of fatigue, creep, stress-corrosion, thermal embrittlement and radiation damage in metals. His work in cement-based materials includes the application of linear and nonlinear ultrasonic techniques to quantify microstructure and progressive micro-cracking in concrete.

    Jacobs’ publications have been cited more than 4900 times with an h-index of 39 (Google Scholar), 31 (Scopus) or 28 (Web of Science) and he is a Fellow of the ASME. Professor Jacobs’ research has been funded by DOE, NSF, ONR, AFOSR, DARPA, NASA, US DOT, Georgia DOT, Exxon-Mobil, EPRI, Sandia National Lab and GE. He has been the PI or co-PI on over $8M worth of contracts since 1990. Jacobs has graduated 16 Ph.D. students (5 women and 2 African Americans) and 65 M.S. thesis students.

    laurence.jacobs@coe.gatech.edu

    404.894.2344

    Office Location:
    Mason 2132A

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    Research Focus Areas:
  • Materials and Nanotechnology
  • Additional Research:
    Acoustics and dynamics, structural health monitoring, structural materials

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