MSE - Key Persons

Dr. Ashutosh Goel earned his B.S. (Hons.) and M.S. (Hons.) in Physics from Guru Nanak Dev University, India. He completed his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, in 2009. He joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Rutgers University as a faculty member in 2014. Before joining Rutgers, Dr. Goel worked as a Materials Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, WA, and Senior Research Scientist specializing in Optical Fibers at Sterlite Technologies Ltd. in Aurangabad, India. Dr. Goel has authored or co-authored over 100 research articles in leading international journals and holds several U.S. patents. He serves as an Associate Editor for both the Journal of the American Ceramic Society and the International Journal of Applied Glass Science. He is also on the editorial board of the Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids and actively reviews for numerous scientific journals. Additionally, Dr. Goel chairs the International Commission on Glass (ICG) Technical Committee on Hazardous Waste Vitrification (TC05) and is a member of the Technical Committee on Glasses in Healthcare (TC04). His impactful contributions to glass science and engineering have been recognized with prestigious honors, including the 2017 Vittorio Gottardi Prize (ICG), the 2021 W.H. Zachariasen Prize (Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids), and the 2023 Tadashi Kokubo Award (American Ceramic Society).

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Job Titles:

Professor & Corning / Saint Gobain / Malcolm G. McLaren Chair

E. Koray Akdoğan

Job Titles:

Associate Teaching Professor & Undergraduate Program Director
Associate Teaching Professor / Center for Ceramic Research
Senior Member of IEEE

Dr. Akdoğan is a senior member of IEEE and has served as the Education Committee Chair of UFFC Society (2004-2008); as the Travel and Local Arrangements Chair of the 2007 IEEE-UFFC Ultrasonics Meeting in New York City; as Co-Organizer & Session Chair of the Nanomaterials Symposium at ISOPE 2010 in Beijing, China and ISOPE 2011 in Maui, HI, USA; and, as the Executive Committee Chair of Nano 2012 in Rhodes, Greece. He is a Scientific Committee Member, International Metallurgy and Materials Congress (IMMC'2020), Istanbul, Turkey. He is also a member of MRS, Sigma Xi and ACerS. He was the Co-Director and Co-PI of the Nano-structured Materials Laboratory at Rutgers University, and the Lead Experimenter at the X17-1 beamline at NSLS-I (2008-2014). He is affiliated with NSLS-II, Brookhaven National Labs (2014-to date). He serves as a peer reviewer to prestigious archival journals such as Adv. Materials, Appl. Phys. Lett., J. Appl. Phys., ACS Nano, Acta Mat., Physics B: Cond. Mat., JMR, Trans. IEEE-UFFC, Materials Today, J.