John A. Rogers
Encyclopedia
John A. Rogers is a physical chemist
and materials engineer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
.
Rogers was named a 2009 MacArthur Fellow, and elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering
in 2011.
Rogers won the Lemelson-MIT Prize
in 2011.
Chemist
A chemist is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties such as density and acidity. Chemists carefully describe the properties they study in terms of quantities, with detail on the level of molecules and their component atoms...
and materials engineer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...
.
Education
Rogers obtained BA and BS degrees in chemistry and in physics from the University of Texas, Austin, in 1989. From MIT, he received SM degrees in physics and in chemistry in 1992 and the PhD degree in physical chemistry in 1995. From 1995 to 1997, Rogers was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard University Society of Fellows. During this time he also served as a Director for Active Impulse Systems, a company based on his PhD research that he co-founded in 1995 and which was acquired by a large company in 1998. He joined Bell Laboratories as a Member of Technical Staff in the Condensed Matter Physics Research Department in 1997, and served as Director of this department from 2000-2002. He is currently Founder Professor of Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, with appointments in the Departments of Materials Science and Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Science and Engineering and Chemistry.Current research
Rogers' research includes fundamental and applied aspects of nano and molecular scale fabrication, materials and patterning techniques for large area electronics and unusual photonic systems.Awards and achievements
Rogers has published more than 175 papers, and has ~60 patents, more than 30 of which are licensed or in active use. His research has been recognized with many awards including the Harvard University Robert B. Woodward Scholar Award (2001), American Chemical Society’s Team Innovation Award (2002), and the Xerox Distinguished Lecturer Award (2006). He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and serves on several Editorial Boards, including those for Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics and Nano Letters. Most recently, he received the 2007 Daniel Drucker Eminent Faculty Award, the highest honor that the University of Illinois College of Engineering bestows on one of its faculty, for achievement in research and teaching.Rogers was named a 2009 MacArthur Fellow, and elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering
National Academy of Engineering
The National Academy of Engineering is a government-created non-profit institution in the United States, that was founded in 1964 under the same congressional act that led to the founding of the National Academy of Sciences...
in 2011.
Rogers won the Lemelson-MIT Prize
Lemelson-MIT Prize
The Lemelson Foundation awards several prizes yearly to inventors in United States. The largest is the Lemelson-MIT Prize which was endowed in 1994 by Jerome H. Lemelson, and is administered through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
in 2011.