ISSN: 2689-8705
Director of MRSEC
Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science & Engineering
University of Utah
United States of America
Tel: 801-585-1666
Dr. Ashutosh Tiwari is the Director of IRG2 of the University of Utah’s NSF Materials Research Science & Engineering Center (MRSEC) and Associate Professor in Department of Materials Science & Engineering at University of Utah. He received his Ph.D. in Low Temperature Condensed Matter Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in the year 2000. Immediately after submitting his dissertation, Dr. Tiwari started working on NASA sponsored He3-He4 superfluidity experiments near the tri-critical point at the University of Delaware. Those experiments were performed in collaboration with Jet Propulsion Laboratory and important findings were documented in NASA's Document#D-21522. In 2001, Dr. Tiwari moved to North Carolina State University to join NSF Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures (NSF-CAMSS) as a Research Scientist. In 2005, Dr. Tiwari joined the University of Utah as an Assistant Professor of Materials Science & Engineering. In 2010, he was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure. In 2014, Dr. Tiwari was appointed as the Director of the Spintronics IRG of the University of Utah's NSF-MRSEC. Dr. Tiwari has received several awards including NSF CAREER Award, IAAM medal and TMS Young leader award. Dr. Tiwari serves on the editorial board of Scientific Reports, a journal from the Nature Publishing Group and as the Chief Editor of the Journal of Energy Storage and Conversion.
