UC Berkeley Prof. Ramamoorthy Ramesh Named Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Materials Research
- The Indian American pursues key materials physics and technological problems in complex multifunctional oxides and has contributed to the synthesis, assembly and understanding of complex functional oxides, such as ferroelectric materials.
Ramamoorthy Ramesh, professor of Physics and Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, has been appointed editor-in-chief of the Materials Research Society’s Journal of Materials Research. He will succeed Gary L. Messing, who is to retire this month.
Professor Ramesh previously served as the founding director of the U.S. Department of Energy SunShot Initiative during the Obama administration. In that role, he was responsible for “envisioning and coordinating R&D funding of the U.S. Solar Program and spearheading the reduction of the cost of solar energy,” according to a Materials Research Society press release. He also served as deputy director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and associate lab director at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Most recently, he served on the Biden-Harris Transition Team for Energy.
Ramesh pursues key materials physics and technological problems in complex multifunctional oxides and has contributed to the synthesis, assembly and understanding of complex functional oxides, such as ferroelectric materials.
He is a fellow of MRS, the American Physical Society (APS) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); is an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, and is a foreign member of the Royal Society of London as well as the Indian National Science Academy.
He has won several awards including the Humboldt Senior Scientist Prize. He was recognized as a Thomson-Reuters Citation Laureate in Physics for his work on multiferroics.
(Top photo, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, courtesy Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab)