Aram Amassian

Professor Aram Amassian is a materials scientist and engineer who has co-authored more than 245 publications in peer-reviewed journals and has delivered over 135 invited and keynote lectures. His research is in the area of emerging semiconductors, such as conjugated polymers, metal halide perovskites and colloidal quantum dots, for energy harvesting (photovoltaics), optoelectronics and bioelectronics. His group investigates the solution processing of semiconductor materials using lab-scale and fab-scale methods and develops advanced in situ characterization methods to gain insight into the non-equilibrium solidification, phase transformation and degradation of materials. Amassian’s work has received >34,000 citations and an h-index of 98 (Google Scholar). He has been named a Highly Cited Author every year on Web of Science since 2020 and was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Fellow of Optica (Optical Society of America). He was previously awarded the Career Development SABIC Chair for his pioneering work on solution-processed optoelectronic materials and is the recipient of the American Vacuum Society’s Electronic Materials Postdoctoral Fellowship, the NSERC (Canada) Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Fellowships.

Amassian obtained his B.Eng. (2001) and Ph.D. (2006) in Engineering Physics from Polytechnique Montreal in Canada, and he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University with George Malliaras. Amassian was appointed assistant professor of Materials Science and Engineering in 2009 at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), where he was one of 75 faculty members at the founding of the university. He joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at North Carolina State University (NC State) in 2018 as an associate professor and was appointed a full professor in 2021.

He is a pioneer in the advanced characterization of solution-processed organic and hybrid semiconductor materials used in electronics and photovoltaics. He is best known for introducing in situ x-ray and optical diagnostics during spin-coating and scalable meniscus-guided processes. His research now develops and utilizes robotics in combination with inline and in situ characterization and artificial intelligence (AI) to establish formulation-process-structure-property relationships while optimizing materials and device functionality, efficiency, stability, and scalable and eco-friendly manufacturability. His work has been highly interdisciplinary and collaborative, at the intersection of materials science, physics, chemistry, and engineering. His publication and funding track records reflect the transdisciplinary, collaborative, and international DNA of his research collaborations.

Professor Amassian is the co-founder of AWOS Technologies and co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Bay Nano Technologies.

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