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David Mitzi received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Engineering Physics from Princeton University in 1985, followed by a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University in 1990. He joined Duke University in 2014 as a professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, and also serves as the Executive Director of the Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility. Prior to his tenure at Duke, Dr. Mitzi spent 23 years at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center, where he primarily focused on the development of new electronic materials, including organic-inorganic perovskites for photovoltaic, LED, and transistor memory applications. He managed a multi-company program aimed at creating low-cost, high-throughput techniques for depositing thin-film chalcogenide-based absorber layers for high-efficiency solar cells. He holds numerous patents and has authored or co-authored more than 300 publications, highlighting his significant contributions to the field of materials science and energy systems.
Department of Biomedical Engineering (MS program)