Materials Science & Engineering

Peter Green

Professor

pfgreen@umich.edu




EDUCATION:

Hunter College, NY Physics BA (honors) and MA 1981
Cornell University Materials Science and Eng. MS 1983
Cornell University Materials Science and Eng. Ph.D. 1985


ALSO:

Vincent T. and Gloria M. Gorguze Professor of Engineering

Professor, Chemical Engineering, Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Applied Physics


RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Research conducted in the Green Group's Laboratory for Complex Materials is devoted to developing a fundamental understanding of, and controlling, the structure and properties of "soft" materials for applications that include: energy conversion, active and passive coatings, membranes, sensors and organic electronic and electrorheology.

PRIOR EXPERIENCE:

  • BFGoodrich Endowed Professor of Materials Engineering, Professor of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 1999-2005
  • Assoc. Prof., Dept. Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 9/96-9/99
  • Manager, Glass and Electronic Ceramics Research, Sandia National Laboratories 1/91-8/96
  • Senior Member of Tech. Staff, Sandia National Laboratories Physical Properties of Polymers 5/86-1/91
  • Post Doc. Fellow, Sandia National Laboratories Physical Properties of Polymers /Ion, Solid Interactions and Defect Physics 8/85-5/86

AWARDS AND SERVICE:

  • "Outstanding Referee" for Physical Review Letters/Physical Review (http://publish.aps.org/OutstandingReferees) 2012
  • President, Materials Research Society 2006
  • Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry (London) 2012
  • Fellow, American Physical Society 1996
  • Fellow, American Ceramic Society 1998