Rodney S. Ruoff (512) 471 4691
[email protected] http://bucky-central.me.utexas.edu/publications.html Address Dept of Mechanical Engineering and the Materials Science and Engineering Program Cockrell School of Engineering The University of Texas at Austin 204 E. Dean Keeton Street; Stop C2200 Austin, TX 78712-1591 Education 1988 Ph.D. Chemical Physics, University of Illinois-Urbana Thesis: "Fourier-Transform Microwave Spectroscopy of Hydrogen-bonded Trimers and of Conformer Relaxation in Free Jets" (Prof. H. S. Gutowsky, research advisor). 1981 B.S. Chemistry, University of Texas-Austin, High Honors Professional Experience Cockrell Family Regents Chair Sept ‘07-present University of Texas at Austin John Evans Professor of Nanoengineering 2003 – Aug 2007 Northwestern University Full Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering 2000 - 2007 Director, NU BIMat Institute (A NASA URETI Institute) Northwestern University, IL Associate Professor, Department of Physics 1997 - 2000 Washington University, MO Research Staff Scientist, Molecular Physics Laboratory 1991 – 1996 SRI International Postdoctoral Fellow 1990 – 1991 IBM-Watson Research Laboratory Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow Max Planck Institut fuer Stroemungsforschung, Goettingen, Germany 1989 - 1990 Professional Associations and Activities Managing Editor and Editorial Board Member: NANO (http://www.worldscinet.com/nano/nano.shtml) Editorial Advisory Board: Carbon (http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/258/description#description) Editorial Board Member: