Harley T. Johnson, Ph.D.

Bio: Professor Johnson also holds a courtesy appointment as Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and affiliate appointments in the Materials Research Lab (MRL) and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Professor Johnson is Director and PI of the Illinois NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (I-MRSEC), based at MRL. He has research interests in the mechanics and physics of electronic and optical materials.  He holds graduate degrees from Brown University, and an undergraduate degree from Georgia Tech.  He is a fellow of ASME, a past recipient of an NSF CAREER Award, and he has received the ASME Thomas J. R. Hughes Young Investigator Award for Special Achievement in Applied Mechanics.  In 2014-2015 he was a Fulbright U.S. Scholar in France and an Invited Professor at Université Joseph Fourier in Grenoble.