Yury Gogotsi

Yury Gogotsi is Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University. He also holds appointments in the Departments of Chemistry and Mechanical Engineering and serves as Director of the A.J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute and Associate Dean of the College of Engineering at Drexel University in Philadelphia.

He received his BS/MS degree in Metallurgy (1984) and PhD in Physical Chemistry (1986) from Kiev Polytechnic, Ukraine, and a DSc degree in Materials Engineering (1995) from the Ukrainian Academy of Science. Before joining Drexel, he did post-doctoral work in Germany, Japan and Norway and held faculty positions at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research group works on nanotubes, nanofibers, nanostructured carbons, and pressure-induced phase transformations in ceramics and semiconductors. He co-authored two books, edited six books, obtained 20 patents and authored about 200 research papers. He received several awards for his research including I.N. Frantsevich Prize from the Ukrainian Academy of Science, S. Somiya Award from the International Union of Materials Research Societies, and Kuczynski Prize from the International Institute for the Science of Sintering. He has been elected as Fellow of the American Ceramic Society, Academician of the World Academy of Ceramics and Full Member of the International Institute for the Science of Sintering.

His research interests include nanostructured carbon materials, hydrogen storage, Raman microspectroscopy, electron microscopy and phase transformation under pressure.