John G Ekerdt
University of Texas at Austin, USA
Biography
John G Ekerdt earned his PhD from the Univerisity of California, Berkeley in 1979. He is currently working as the Associate Dean for Research in Engineering and the Dick Rothwell Endowed Chair in Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He has more than 300 refereed publications, two books and seven US patents. His current research interests focus on the surface, growth and materials chemistry of metal, dielectric and perovskite fi lms and nanostructures by developing and understanding the reactions and chemistry that control nucleation and growth of fi lms and nanostructures.