Dr. Gregory Rohrer

Biography

Gregory Rohrer is a W.W. Mullins Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where he has been a faculty member since 1990. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Franklin & Marshall College and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. Rohrer has authored and co-authored over 350 publications, contributing significantly to the field of materials science. His research has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Richard M. Fulrath Award, the Robert B. Sosman Award, and the W. David Kingery Award from the American Ceramic Society. Rohrer has served as the coordinating editor for Acta Materialia and was the chair of the University Materials Council from 2011 to 2016, in addition to being a member of the Board of Directors of the American Ceramic Society from 2016 to 2019. In 2024, he was named a Fellow of the Materials Research Society and will receive the Cyril Stanley Smith Award from TMS in 2025 for his pioneering work in quantifying the atomic, nano, and microstructural mechanisms that govern high-temperature deformation of materials.

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