Lane W. Martin | |
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Born | |
Known for | Complex-oxide thin films Ferroelectrics, Multiferroics Functional Materials |
Spouse | Sophi |
Children | 1 |
Awards | Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers |
Academic background | |
Education | Carnegie Mellon University (BS) University of California, Berkeley (MS, PhD) |
Thesis | Engineering multiferroic materials and new functionalities in materials (2008) |
Doctoral advisor | Ramamoorthy Ramesh |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of California,Berkeley University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Rice University |
Lane Wyatt Martin is an American materials scientist and engineer specializing in complex oxide thin films,their physics and properties,and applications of the same. He is best known for his work on ferroelectric and multiferroic thin films. Currently he is a Robert A. Welch Professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering,Chemistry,and Physics and Astronomy,and serves as the Director of the Rice Advanced Materials Institute (RAMI) at Rice University.
Martin was born in Lincoln,Nebraska and grew up primarily in Indiana,Pennsylvania and graduated from Indiana Area Senior High School. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Materials Science and Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in December 2003 in just three-and-half years. He then pursued graduate studies at the University of California,Berkeley,obtaining a Master of Science (May 2006) and a Ph.D. (May 2008) in Materials Science and Engineering.
Early Career
After completing his doctorate degree,Martin served as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Quantum Materials Program at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 2008 to 2009. He began his academic career as an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois,Urbana-Champaign. As an assistant professor of materials science and engineering,Martin received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his proposal,"Enhanced Pyroelectric and Electrocaloric Effects in Complex Oxide Thin Film Heterostructures." [1] He also helped devise a method to make thin films of ferroelectric material with twice the strain of traditional methods,giving the films exceptional electric properties. [2] In 2013,Martin was nominated for a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers by the United States Department of Defense "for his research accomplishments in the synthesis and study of multifunctional materials that have enabled the development and understanding of fundamentally new materials phenomena and potential for advanced devices." [3]
UC Berkeley
In 2014,Martin returned to the University of California,Berkeley as an associate professor,was promoted to professor in July 2018,and served as Vice/Associate Chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering from 2018 to 2021. From 2021 to 2023,Martin was a Chancellor’s Professor and Chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California,Berkeley.
While serving in this role,he received the 2015 American Associate for Crystal Growth Young Author Award for his "outstanding accomplishments in the heteroepitaxial crystal growth of complex oxide thin films." [4] He also received the 2016 Robert L. Coble Award for Young Scholars from the American Ceramic Society for outstanding contributions in ceramics research. [5] In 2021,Martin was elected to the American Physical Society for his seminal contributions to the science of ferroelectrics. [6] During his tenure as Chair,The University of California,Berkeley's Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) program was consistently ranked among the top in the nation. In the 2023 U.S. News &World Report rankings,the program was tied for the #2 position.
Rice University and the Rice Advanced Materials Institute (RAMI)
Martin joined Rice University in July 2023 as the Robert A. Welch Professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering,Chemistry,and Physics and Astronomy and as inaugural Director of the Rice Advanced Materials Institute (RAMI),a leading hub for interdisciplinary research in advanced materials. RAMI brings together experts from materials science,chemistry,physics,and engineering to address pressing global challenges through innovations in material design and application. Under Martin's leadership,the institute focuses on exploring a diverse array of materials to enable transformative advances in areas such as next-generation,low-power electronics and communications,energy storage and conversion,and catalysis,separations,storage,and beyond while fostering collaboration across academic,industry,and governmental sectors. RAMI aims to advance the frontiers of science while promoting sustainable and impactful technological solutions,solidifying Rice University’s position as a global leader in materials research.
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