Prof Pawel Keblinski at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute USA visited HEG on November 25 and gave a talk on "High-frequency viscoelastic bandgaps and thermal transport in organic-inorganic nanolaminates: Phonons meet mechanics".

Biography:

Pawel Keblinski received MS degree form Warsaw University in 1990 and PhD degree from Pennsylvania State University in 1995. After a postdoctoral appointments at Argonne National Laboratory and Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe he joined the faculty of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY. He currently serves as the Materials Science and Engineering Department Head. His research relies mainly on the use of classical molecular dynamics simulations to study structure-property relationships in interfacial materials, with a focus on thermal transport modeling. His work to date resulted in over 200 publications in peer-reviewed journals and associated H-index of 77 (Google Scholar). He is a recipient of a National Science Foundation Career Award (USA), Humboldt Fellowship (Germany) and Marie Curie Fellowship (EU Commission/Poland). He is also a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and an Associated Editor of the Journal of Applied Physics.