Biographical Sketch

Prof. Nitin P. Padture received a B.Tech. in Metallurgical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (1985), a M.S. in Ceramic Engineering from Alfred University (1987), and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Lehigh University (1991). He worked as a Post Doctoral Fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology for 3 years before joining the University of Connecticut faculty in 1995 as an Assistant Professor. Prof. Padture was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor and Professor in 1998 and 2003, respectively, and he served as the Interim Department Head for 1 year (2003-04). Prof. Padture spent 6 months as a Visiting Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2001.  He joined the Ohio State University faculty as Professor in January 2005.

Prof. Padture's research interests are in the areas of: (i) tailoring of advanced ceramics, composites, and coatings for mechanical, thermal, optical properties; (ii) synthesis, characterization, device fabrication, and properties of 1-D and 2-D functional nanomaterials; and (iii) nanoscale phenomena in oxides: chemical-sensing, ferroelectric, piezoelectric, magnetoresistance, and photovoltaic. His research has been supported by: NSF, ONR, AFOSR, DoE, NavAir, DARPA, State of Ohio, Government of Spain, and industry.

Prof. Padture is the author or co-author of 102 journal publications, including 2 papers in Science and 1 paper in Nature Materials, and he has been awarded 3 patents (2 US and 1 European).  His papers average about 26 citations per publication, with an h-Index of 29 over 17 years of scientific publishing (ISI Science Citation Index). He has 4 publications with 100+ citations each, and 2 publications with 200+ citations each.  He has presented over 100 invited talks in the US and abroad, including talks at the NSF Workshop on Fundamental Research Needs in Ceramics (1997), the Ceramics Gordon Research Conference (2001), ICMAT 2005 Singapore (2005), and Fulrath Symposium MS&T '07 (2007).

Prof. Padture is the recipient of the Roland B. Snow Award (1990), the Robert L. Coble Award for Young Scholars (1999), and the Richard M. Fulrath Award (2007) from the American Ceramic Society. He also received the ONR Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research (1996), the Olin Junior Faculty Development Award from the Olin Corporation (1998), and the Outstanding Junior Faculty Award from the UConn School of Engineering (1998). He was elected Fellow of the American Ceramic Society in 2005.

Prof. Padture serves as a reviewer for several journals and federal funding agencies in the field; he is a Principal Editor of the Journal of Materials Research and an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society.  He has organized several sessions and symposia under the auspices of the American Ceramic Society, the Materials Research Society, the Metals, Minerals, Materials Society, and ASM International. Prof. Padture was the Program Co-Chair for the Basic Science Division of the American Ceramic Society (2000-01).