DR. PETER GREEN
(Term Expires May 8, 2011)
Peter Green is the Vincent T. and Gloria M. Gorguze Professor of Engineering and Chair of the Materials Science and Engineering Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is also Professor of Chemical Engineering, Applied Physics and Macromolecular Science and Engineering.
He was formerly Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, where he was the BFGoodrich endowed Professor of Materials Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Cornell University in 1985 and subsequently spent 11 years at Sandia National laboratories, the last 5 of which he was Manager of Glass and Electronic Ceramics Research Department. In 1996 he joined the Chemical Engineering faculty at the University of Texas at Austin.
His research interests include understanding structure, phase behavior and dynamics of bulk and thin film polymer and polymer-based systems. With regard to thin films he is interested in understanding self-assembly, wetting phenomena and the effects of confinement and interfacial effects on the properties of materials at the nano-scale.
Prof. Green is the 2006 President of the Materials Research Society (MRS). His awards and recognition include: fellow of the American Physical Society; fellow of the American Ceramic Society; and a special Creativity Award, National Science Foundation 2002. He was elected to a 4-year term as a member of the Council of Gordon Research Conferences (GRC) in 2003. Green served as chair of the Solid State Sciences Committee of the National research Council (NRC), 7/06-708, and is a member of the NRC Board on Physics and Astronomy. He formally served as a member of the external advisory committee of the Division of Math and Physical Science of the National Science Foundation and on editorial Boards of the journals: Physical Review Letters, Macromolecules and Journal of Polymer Science: Polymer Physics. He is author of the textbook Kinetics Transport and Structure in Hard and Soft Materials, CRC, Taylor and Francis, 2005.
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