Materials and Manufacturing for Sustainability (M&MS), operated by IMR, is one of eight focus areas of The Ohio State University’s Discovery Themes Initiative. Our program enables Ohio State faculty, staff and students to focus on translational research and innovation in technology, science and manufacturing, as they apply to future energy systems and sustainability.
With the goal to become pre-eminent in the field of advanced materials and technologies for sustainability, M&MS connects and creates value while delivering impact to solve the world’s most pressing problems in the 21st century. This program builds on IMR’s foundation of discovery, hiring faculty to advance materials discoveries, developing strategic industrial and global relationships, and accelerating the research process to enable a paradigm of discovery-to-deployment at Ohio State.
Our mission is to accelerate the research process and cultivate an innovation ecosystem that enables a discovery-to-deployment paradigm made possible through IMR resources, while hiring faculty to advance materials discoveries and develop strategic and global relationships.
M&MS Faculty
Our faculty members are central to the strength and success of IMR’s expanding materials community. In the past three years, the M&MS cohort at Ohio State has grown to include 24 faculty members. Those new hires span a wide range of departments across multiple colleges, reflecting the campus-wide scope of the M&MS Discovery Theme program, which advances and accelerates materials research and innovation spanning from science to manufacturing, as they apply to future energy systems and sustainability.
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- ANANT AGARWAL, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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- SHAMSUL ARAFIN, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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- ASHLEY BIGHAM, Assistant Professor, Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture
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- CHRISTIAN BLANCO, Assistant Professor, Operations Management, Fisher College of Business
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- MARC BOCKRATH, Professor, Physics
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- VICKY DOAN-NGUYEN, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
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- CAROLIN FINK, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
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- PELAGIA-IREN (PERENA) GOUMA, Orton Jr. Chair in Ceramic Engineering; Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
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- MICHAEL GROEBER, Associate Professor, Integrated Systems Engineering
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- AYONGA HEREID, Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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- NED HILL, Professor, John Glenn College of Public Affairs and College of Engineering’s Knowlton School of Architecture
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- JOHN HORACK, Senior Associate Dean of the College of Engineering, Neil Armstrong Chair in Aerospace Policy and Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Professor, John Glenn Dean’s Office
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- JUNG-HYUN KIM, Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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- SANJAY KRISHNA, George R. Smith Chair in Engineering; Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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- CHUNNING (JEANNIE) LAU, Professor, Physics
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- ERIN MCKIE, Assistant Professor, Management Sciences, Fisher College of Business
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- FARHANG POURBOGHRAT, Chair, Integrated Systems Engineering; Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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- ZACHARY SCHULTZ, Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
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- BRIAN SKINNER, Assistant Professor, Physics
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- ALOK SUTRADHAR, Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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- SHIYU ZHANG, Assistant Professor Chemistry and Biochemistry
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- HONGPING ZHAO, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering