Seven new faculty will join The Ohio State University’s materials community during the 2016-2017 academic year through the Materials and Manufacturing for Sustainability (M&MS) focus area of the university’s Discovery Themes Initiative. These seven professors join two others hired in 2016 – Ned Hill and Farhang Pourboghrat – for a total of nine new faculty positions within the M&MS cohort to date.
The M&MS initiative, managed by the Institute for Materials Research (IMR), is focused on enabling Ohio State faculty, students and staff to focus on translational innovation and research in technology, science and manufacturing as they apply to future energy systems and sustainability from the nano-scale to the macro-scale. With the goal to become pre-eminent in the field of advanced materials and technologies for sustainability, M&MS is building on IMR’s existing strengths in materials 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.
The faculty recruitment within M&MS targets three areas – energy harvesting, storage and systems; high performance materials and structures; and materials for sustainable information processing – which complement Ohio State’s current portfolio in the broader Energy and Environment Discovery Theme.
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