Rodney S. Ruoff

Rodney S. Ruoff, Distinguished Professor, UNIST Department of Chemistry and the School of Materials Science and Engineering, is Director of the Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials (CMCM), an IBS Center located at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) campus. Prior to joining UNIST, he was the Cockrell Family Regents Endowed Chair Professor at The University of Texas at Austin from September 2007 to December 2013. He earned his PhD degree in Chemical Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1988 (H.S. Gutowsky, PhD Advisor), and was a Fulbright Fellow in 1988–1989 at the Max Planck Institute für Strömungsforschung in Göttingen. Ruoff was also a John Evans Professor of Nanoengineering and Director of Northwestern University’s Biologically Inspired Materials Institute from January 2000 to August 2007. He has co-authored over 385 peer-reviewed publications related to chemistry, physics, materials science, mechanics and biomedical science, and is a Fellow of the Materials Research Society, the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.