Ralph G. Nuzzo new guest professor of Materials Chemistry
Ralph G. Nuzzo, has recently joined the KTH faculty in the School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health as a Guest Professor of Materials Chemistry.
Professor Nuzzo’s research broadly spans domains of interdisciplinary interest in materials, a body of work that is described more than 340 peer-reviewed papers and 40 awarded U.S. Patents.
His current research is broadly recognized for the contributions made to surface chemistry, energy sciences, 3D fabrication, devices (electronic, photonic, and optoelectronic), and biomaterials engineering. He currently is the G. L. Clark Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a faculty he joined in 1991 and where he also holds an appointment as a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering.
He also is a Faculty Associate in Applied Physics and Materials Science at The California Institute of Technology, where he most recently served as the Director of the Department of Energy Light-Materials Interactions in Energy Conversion Energy Frontier Research Center. Professor Nuzzo is the past director of the Materials Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois.
Professor Nuzzo received an AB degree with High Honors and Highest Distinction in Chemistry from Rutgers College in 1976 and earned a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry (under the direction of Professor George M. Whitesides) from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980. He accepted the position of Member of Technical Staff in Materials Research at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ in 1980, where he was named a Distinguished Member of the Staff in Research in 1987. He joined the Illinois faculty in 1991.
He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Chemical Society, the American Vacuum Society, and the Royal Society of Chemistry. His awards include the Forschungspreis of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, co-recipient of the George E. Smith Award of the IEEE, co-recipient of the Wall Street Journal Innovators Award for Semiconductors, and the Adamson Award of the American Chemical Society.
Professor Nuzzo served for 20 years as the Senior Editor of the ACS journal Langmuir. In addition to his academic responsibilities, Professor Nuzzo has served as a principal advisor and or founder of several companies (Surface Logix, Nanoterra, MC10, Intermolecular, Luminescent Energy) bringing new technologies to diverse markets.