Arumugam Manthiram

Joe C. Walter, Jr. Chair in Engineering and Jack S. Josey Professor in Energy Studies

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 a faculty at the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 1991. He currently holds the Joe C. Walter, Jr. Chair in Engineering and the Jack S. Josey Professorship in Energy Studies. Dr. Manthiram directs a large, productive research group in electrochemical energy technologies with about 20 graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. His current research is focused on lithium-ion batteries, fuel cells, solar cells, and supercapacitors. Specifically, his group is engaged in developing new low cost, more efficient materials for these clean energy technologies, novel chemical synthesis and processing approaches for nanomaterials, and a fundamental understanding of their structure-property-performance relationships. He is the Co-Founder of ActaCell, a startup that is engaged in commercializing novel materials developed in his laboratory for high power lithium ion batteries. Dr. Manthiram has authored more than 365 publications and 5 patents. Dr. Manthiram received the Engineering Foundation Faculty Excellence Award in 1994, and the Mechanical Engineering Department Faculty Leadership Award in 1996. 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.