Peter Green
Professor and Department Chair
Education:
Hunter College, NY Physics BA (honors) and MA 1981
Cornell University Materials Science and Eng. MS 1983
Cornell University Materials Science and Eng. Ph.D. 1985
Also:
Vincent T. and Gloria M. Gorguze Professor of Engineering
Professor, Chemical Engineering, Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Applied Physics
Director, Center for Solar and Thermal Energy Conversion
Research Interests:
Research conducted in the Green Group's Laboratory for Complex Materials is devoted to developing a fundamental understanding of, and controlling, the structure and properties of "soft" materials for applications that include: energy conversion, active and passive coatings, membranes, sensors and organic electronic and electrorheology.
Prior Experience:
- BFGoodrich Endowed Professor of Materials Engineering, Professor of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 1999-2005
- Assoc. Prof., Dept. Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 9/96-9/99
- Manager, Glass and Electronic Ceramics Research, Sandia National Laboratories 1/91-8/96
- Senior Member of Tech. Staff, Sandia National Laboratories Physical Properties of Polymers 5/86-1/91
- Post Doc. Fellow, Sandia National Laboratories Physical Properties of Polymers /Ion, Solid Interactions and Defect Physics 8/85-5/86
Awards and Service:
- Editor in Chief, MRS Communications, Materials Research Society/Cambridge University Press (http://www.mrs.org/mrc/)
- "Outstanding Referee" for Physical Review Letters/Physical Review (http://publish.aps.org/OutstandingReferees) 2012
- President, Materials Research Society 2006
- Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry (London) 2012
- Fellow, American Physical Society 1996
- Fellow, American Ceramic Society 1998