Advisors
Robert Huggins
Professor Huggins obtained his B.A. in Physics from Amherst College and his M.S. and Sc.D. in Metallurgy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After serving as an Instructor at MIT, he joined the Stanford faculty as Assistant Professor of Metallurgy in 1954, was promoted to Associate Professor in 1958, and was named Professor of Materials Science in 1962.
Dr. Huggins initiated the Department of Materials Science at Stanford in 1959, and founded Stanford's Center for Materials Research in 1961. He was the Director of the Center for Materials Research from its inception until 1977. He has served as Director of Materials Sciences in the Advanced Research Projects Agency in Washington, D.C. He has also served as Chairman of the Solid State Sciences Committee for the U.S. National Research Council.
Stanley Whittingham
Dr. Stanley Whittingham is an American chemist and is currently a professor of chemistry and director of both the Institute for Materials Research and the Materials Science and Engineering program at Binghamton University, a part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system.
Dr. Whittingham is a key figure in the history of the development of rechargeable batteries discovering the concept of intercalation electrodes. He received the Young Author Award from the Electrochemical Society in 1971, the Battery Research Award in 2004, and was elected a Fellow in 2006 for his contributions to lithium battery science and technology.
Fritz Prinz
Professor Prinz is Rodney H. Adams Professor in the School of Engineering; Chair, Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Rapid Prototyping Laboratory at Stanford University. He is interested in mass transport phenomena across thin membranes such as oxide films and lipid bi-layers. His research group studies electro-chemical phenomena with the help of Atomic Force Microscopy, Impedance Spectroscopy, and Quantum Modeling. His current work focuses on the design and fabrication of micro and nanoscale devices for energy and biology. Examples include fuel cells and bioreactors. Professor Prinz holds a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Vienna.
Jay Whitacre
Dr. Jay F. Whitacre is currently an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Melon and is a specialist in materials for energy technologies, power system design and implementation, energy storage and generation. Dr. Whitacre received his Ph.D. in Materials Science in 1999 from University of Michigan. For many years, he served as Senior Member of Technical Staff at Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He is a Postdoctoral Scholar of the California Insitute of Technology.
Professor Whitacre examines the materials science of synthesizing, characterizing, and implementing promising materials and device architectures for energy storage and generation technologies such as Li-ion batteries, fuel cells, and photovoltaics.