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

Research Website

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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

    ChBE Profile Page

  • Stingelin Lab
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    University, College, and School/Department
    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

    Physics Profile Page

  • Mourigal Lab
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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

    Physics Profile Page

  • 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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    Rampi Ramprasad

    Rampi Ramprasad

    Rampi Ramprasad

    Michael E. Tennenbaum Family Chair, Materials Science and Engineering
    Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Energy Sustainability

    Ramprasad joined the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech in February 2018. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, he was the Centennial Term Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Connecticut. He joined the University of Connecticut in Fall 2004 after a 6-year stint with Motorola’s R&D laboratories at Tempe, AZ. Ramprasad received his B. Tech. in Metallurgical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, an M.S. degree in Materials Science and Engineering at the Washington State University, and a Ph.D. degree also in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

    Ramprasad’s area of expertise is in the development and utilization of computational and data-driven (machine learning) methods aimed at the design and discovery of new materials. Materials classes under study include polymers, metals and ceramics (mainly dielectrics and catalysts), and application areas include energy production and energy storage. Prof. Ramprasad’s research has been funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Energy (DOE), the Army Research Office (ARO), and Toyota Research Institute (TRI). He has lead a ONR-sponsored Multi-disciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) in the past to accelerate the discovery of polymeric capacitor dielectrics for energy storage, and is presently leading another MURI aimed at the understanding and design of dielectrics tolerant to enormous electric fields.

    Ramprasad is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, an elected member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, and the recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship and the Max Planck Society Fellowship for Distinguished Scientists.

    rampi.ramprasad@mse.gatech.edu

    404.385.2471

    Office Location:
    Love 366

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  • Ramprasad Group
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    Research Focus Areas:
    • Computational Materials Science
    • Use & Conservation
    Additional Research:
    Data Analytics; Materials discovery; Energy Storage; Modeling; Electronic Materials; Electronics

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    Meisha Shofner

    Meisha Shofner

    Meisha Shofner

    Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering

    Meisha L. Shofner is a professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, joining the faculty following post-doctoral training at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and her Ph.D. in Materials Science from Rice University. Prior to beginning graduate school, she was employed as a design engineer at FMC in the Subsea Engineering Division, working at two plant locations (Houston, Texas and the Republic of Singapore), and she is a registered Professional Engineer in Georgia.

    Shofner’s research area is processing-structure-property relationships of polymers and composites. Specifically, she designs processing strategies to attain hierarchical structures in these materials to improve properties and has discovered scalable processing methods to produce auxetic structures and tensegrity-inspired structures. Additionally, she works with bioderived materials to produce composites with reduced environmental impact.  

    meisha.shofner@mse.gatech.edu

    404.385.7216

    Office Location:
    MRDC 4409

    Shofner Lab

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    Research Focus Areas:
    • Advanced Composites
    • Materials & Manufacturing
    • Materials and Nanotechnology
    • Renewable Energy
    Additional Research:
    Biomolecular-Solids; Biomaterials; Composites; Polymers; Nanomaterials; Biofuels; Structure-property relationships in polymer nanocomposite materials; producing structural hierarchy in these materials for structural and functional applications.

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    Chloé Arson

    Chloé Arson

    Chloe Arson

    Adjunct Professor

    Chloé Arson is a professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at Cornell University and an adjunct faculty in the Schools of CEE and Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). She earned her Ph.D. at Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (France) in 2009. She was an assistant professor at Texas A&M University from 2009 to 2012. Then, she worked as an assistant professor (2012-2016), associate professor (2016-2022) and professor (2022-2023) in the Georgia Tech School of CEE. Arson joined the faculty at Cornell University in Summer 2023.

    chloe.arson@ce.gatech.edu

    404.385.0143

    CEE Profile Page

    Research Focus Areas:
    • Computational Materials Science
    • Geosystems
    Additional Research:
    Numerical modeling, geomaterials, bio-inspired materials

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    Mike Leamy

    Mike  Leamy

    Mike Leamy

    Associate Professor

    michael.leamy@me.gatech.edu

    (404) 385.2828

    Website

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    University, College, and School/Department
    Research Focus Areas:
    • Energy Utilization and Conservation
    • Materials and Nanotechnology
    Additional Research:
    Electric Vehicles; Acoustics and Dynamics; computational mechanics; Multiscale Modeling; Nanostructured Materials; Metamaterials

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    T. Robert Harris

    T. Robert Harris

    T. Robert Harris

    Senior Research Engineer, Georgia Tech Research Institute

    Robert Harris' background is in semiconductors and microelectronics. He serves as research faculty at the Georgia Tech Research Institute in the Electro-Optical Systems Laboratory and teach in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. His research focus is on photonic integrated circuits, heterogeneous integration, electronic warfare, and RF electronics.

    robert.harris@gtri.gatech.edu

    404.407.8290

    Electro-Optical Systems Laboratory

    University, College, and School/Department
    Research Focus Areas:
    • Optics & Photonics
    Additional Research:
    Thermoelectric materials, integrated photonics, advanced characterization, compund semiconductors

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