Dr. John C. Mauro
Dorothy Pate Enright Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program
Associate Department Head for Graduate Education
Member, National Academy of Engineering
Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
Dr. John C. Mauro is Dorothy Pate Enright Professor and Associate Head for Graduate Education in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. John earned a B.S. in Glass Engineering Science (2001), B.A. in Computer Science (2001), and Ph.D. in Glass Science (2006), all from Alfred University. He joined Corning Incorporated in 1999 and served in multiple roles there, including Senior Research Manager of the Glass Research department. John is the inventor or co-inventor of several new glass compositions for Corning, including Corning Gorilla Glass products. John joined the faculty at Penn State in 2017 and is currently a world-recognized expert in fundamental and applied glass science, statistical mechanics, computational and condensed matter physics, thermodynamics and kinetics, and the topology of disordered networks. John is the author of over 340 peer-reviewed publications and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society. He is co-author of Fundamentals of Inorganic Glasses, 3rd ed. (Elsevier, 2019), the definitive textbook on glass science and technology, and author of the newly published textbook, Materials Kinetics: Transport and Rate Phenomena (Elsevier, 2021). John is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors with 72 granted U.S. patents. John is also a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society and the Society of Glass Technology. He is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Dr. Seong H. Kim
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Dean’s Fellow
Professor of Materials Science & Engineering
McWhirter Graduate Program Coordinator of Chemical Engineering
Dr. Seong H. Kim joined the faculty at Penn State in 2001 after completing a Ph.D. study in Chemistry from Northwestern University and a post-doctoral research at University of California, Berkeley. His research interests lie in surface science and nanoengineering. His research focuses on elucidating fundamental molecular mechanisms of chemical and mechanical processes occurring at solid/gas, solid/liquid, and solid/solid interfaces as well as structure-property relationships of biomaterials produced by plants and animals. To answer challenging questions in these systems, his develops and employs cutting-edge spectroscopic and mechanical characterization techniques. Three main areas of his research group are:
- Molecular tribology and lubrication; Chemical reactions induced by mechanical forces at shearing interfaces of solid materials
- Surface chemistry and mechanics of oxide glasses, especially focusing on mechanical strengths and chemical durability of glass materials
- Nano/meso/micro-scale structures of cellulose in plant cell walls and biomass and their relationships to biological or materials functions
He is the author of more than 250 journal publications and his h-index is 44.
Dr. Maziar Montazerian
Assistant Research Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Dr. Maziar Montazerian is an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. His academic background and industrial working experience as a ceramic/glass engineer have prepared him to be a researcher and instructor. His doctoral dissertation was conducted in Iran and Brazil through the support of The World Academy of Science. They examined the effects of zirconia addition on the biological and mechanical properties of gel-derived bioactive glass-ceramics in which both radiopacity and bioactivity requirements were explicitly satisfied. Then, his current interests revolve around advancing models and methodologies for designing, evaluating, and enhancing biomaterials, with a particular focus on bio-glasses and dental glass-ceramics. His research also encompasses tests, improvement, or development of nucleation and growth models for glasses. Some of his works have been recognized and published in renowned scientific journals such as Chemical Reviews, Progress in Materials Science, International Materials Review, Acta Biomaterialia, and JACerS. Beyond his scholarly contributions, Dr. Montazerian has also made contributions to the ceramic industry, leading workshops on digital printing technology and defect diagnosis and therapy. This practical experience as an engineer has provided him with a broad perspective, enabling him to effectively assist researchers in both scientific and industrial projects. Before joining the Penn State, Dr. Montazerian worked as a professor at the northeast reference laboratory for the evaluation and development of biomaterials (CERTBIO) at the Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG) in Brazil. He is also the associate/guest editor of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society, International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology, Materials-MDPI, Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, Global Materials Research, and the member of the American Ceramic Society.
