Arumugam Manthiram

Dr. Manthiram graduated from Madurai University, India, with a B. S. degree in 1974 and a M. S. degree in 1976. He graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, with a Ph. D. degree in Solid State Chemistry in 1980. After his doctoral degree, Dr. Manthiram worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, for one year, as a Lecturer at the Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, for four years, and as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, England, for one year. He joined the University of Texas at Austin as a postdoctoral researcher in 1986 and became Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 1991. He was promoted to the rank of Professor in 2000 and he currently holds the BFGoodrich Endowed Professorship in Materials Engineering. Dr. Manthiram has been involved in a wide range of research problems at the interface between materials chemistry and engineering. His research centers on the design, synthesis, characterization, properties, and performance of engineering materials. He is currently involved in developing new materials for clean energy technologies such as lithium-ion batteries, fuel cells, solar cells, and supercapacitors including novel chemical synthesis and processing approaches for nanomaterials, nanocomposites, and organic-inorganic nanohybrids. He is the Co-Founder of ActaCell that is engaged in commercializing a cathode material developed in his laboratory for high power lithium ion batteries. Dr. Manthiram has authored or co-authored more than 325 publications and 4 patents. Dr. Manthiram received the Engineering Foundation Faculty Excellence Award in 1994, and the Mechanical Engineering Department Faculty Leadership Award in 1996. He is listed in Who's Who in Technology, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, American Men and Women of Science, 2000 Outstanding Scientists of the 20th Century, Who's Who in the World, 1000 World Leaders of Scientific Influence, and United Who's Who Registry. He was elected as a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society in 2004 and as a Founding Fellow of the World Academy of Materials and Manufacturing Engineering in 2006.