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Jian Luo Professor University of California, San Diego   Structural and Materials Engineering Building, Room 244G   9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0448, La Jolla, CA 92093

Professional Appointments

• University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA

  • Professor (2013- ), Jacobs School of Engineering: Aiiso Yufeng Li Family Department of Chemical and Nano Engineering and Program in Materials Science and Engineering  

• Clemson University, Clemson, SC

  • Professor (2012.8-2012.12); Associate Professor (2009-2012); Assistant Professor (2003-2009), Department of Materials Science and Engineering

  • An affiliated faculty member of  the Center for Optical Materials Science and Engineering Technologies

• Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN

  • Summer faculty research appointment in the Ceramic Science and Technology Group via the HERE@ORNL program, 2005 (1 month)  

• Lucent Technologies, Inc. and OFS, Norcross, GA

  • Member of Technical Staff, June 2001 - August 2003

Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

  • Ph.D., Ceramics, June 2001

  • M.S., Materials Science and Engineering, June 1999

• Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

  • B.E., Materials Science and Engineering, July 1994

  • B.E., Electronics and Computer Technology (dual-degree program), July 1994

Selected Awards and Honors

• Outstanding Graduate Student Mentoring award, Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California San Diego, 2024. 

• Fellow, ASM International, 2022

• Academician, the World Academy of Ceramics (WAC), 2021 

• Brimacombe Medalist, the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS), 2019

• Fellow, the American Ceramic Society (ACerS), 2016

• Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow, 2014

• Faculty Achievement in the Sciences Award, Clemson University College of Engineering and Science, 2011

• Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator, 2007

• National Science Foundation CAREER award, 2005

• Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, 2005 

Teaching

• UCSD NANO 148 Thermodynamics of Materials

• UCSD MATS 201A/NANO 265/MAE271A/ECE 238: Thermodynamics of Solids

• UCSD NANO 158 Phase Transformations/Kinetics

• UCSD NANO 108 Materials Science and Engineering

• UCSD NANO 1 Nanoengineering Seminar

• UCSD NANO 120B Nanoengineering System Design II (Capstone Design)

• UCSD NANO 120B Nanoengineering System Design I

• Clemson MSE827 Kinetics of Materials I, fall 2005-2008 and 2010-2012

• Clemson MSE828 Kinetics of Materials II, spring 2005-2012

• Clemson CME 327 Transport Phenomena, fall 2007-2009 

• Clemson CME342 Structure/Property Lab, spring 2009 (team-taught with Dr. E. C. Skaar), spring 2009

• Clemson MSE812 Materials Science and Engineering II, spring 2004 (team-taught with Dr. B. I. Lee) 

• Clemson CME823 Transmission Electron Microscopy, fall 2004

For additional details, please see my webpage on Google Sites: https://sites.google.com/ucsd.edu/luo