BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jay A. Switzer

Chancellor’s Professor

University of Missouri Curators’ Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Senior Investigator, Graduate Center for Materials Research

Missouri University of Science and Technology (MS&T)

Rolla, MO 65409‑1170

Phone: 573-341-4383

Email: jswitzer@mst.edu   Web: www.mst.edu/~jswitzer

 

Professional Preparation

 

B.S.     Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 1973.

M.A.    Inorganic Chemistry, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, December 1975.

Ph.D.   Inorganic Chemistry, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, March 1979. (Professor John F. Endicott, advisor).

 

Appointments

 

9/2020-Present     Chancellor’s Professor

9/2020-Present     University of Missouri Curators’ Distinguished Professor Emeritus

6/1990-Present  Senior Investigator, Graduate Center for Materials Research-Missouri University of          Science and Technology

9/1999-9/2020      Donald L. Castleman Professor of Discovery in Chemistry, MS&T

1/1996-9/2020      Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Senior Investigator, MS&T

6/1990‑12/1995   Professor of Chemistry and Senior Investigator, Graduate Center for Materials Research-Missouri University of Science and Technology

1/1987‑6/1990     Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pittsburgh

4/1979‑12/1986  Senior Research Chemist, Alternative Energy and Minerals Resources Group, Union Oil      Company of California (UNOCAL)

 

Awards and Honors

 

1.   ECS Electrodeposition Research Award, 204th Electrochemical Society National Meeting, Orlando, FL, October, 2003.

2.   American Chemical Society Midwest Award, ACS Midwest Meeting, Quincy  Illinois, October, 2006.

3.   President’s Award for Research and Creativity (May, 2007).

4.   Elected as Fellow to AAAS (2013), MRS (2015), and ECS (2018).

5.   Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship (2017).

 

Ten Significant Publications

 

(1)   M. V. Kelso, N. K. Mahenderkar, Q. Chen, J. Z. Tubbesing, and J. A. Switzer, Spin coating epitaxial films. Science 364, 166-169 (2019).

(2)   N. K. Mahenderkar, Q. Chen, Y.–C. Liu, A. R. Duchild, S. Hofheins, E. Chason, and J. A. Switzer, Epitaxial lift-off of electrodeposited single-crystal gold foils for flexible electronics. Science 355, 1203-1206 (2017).  

(3)   J. C. Hill, A. T. Landers, and J. A. Switzer, An electrodeposited inhomogeneous metal-insulator-semiconductor junction for efficient photoelectrochemical water oxidation. Nature Mater. 14, 1150-1155 (2015).

(4)    N. K. Mahenderkar, Y.-C. Liu, J. A. Koza, and J. A. Switzer, Electrodeposited germanium nanowires. ACS Nano 8, 9524-9530 (2014).

(5)   J. A. Switzer, H. M. Kothari, P. Poizot, S. Nakanishi, and E. W. Bohannan, Enantiospecific electrodeposition of a chiral catalyst. Nature 425, 490-493 (2003).

(6)   R. Liu, A. A. Vertegel, E. W. Bohannan, and J. A. Switzer, Epitaxial electrodeposition of ZnO nanopillars on single-crystal gold. Chem. Mater. 13, 508-512 (2001).   

(7)    J. A. Switzer, M. G. Shumsky, and E. W. Bohannan, Electrodeposited ceramic single crystals. Science 284, 293-296 (1999).

(8)   E. W. Bohannan, M. G. Shumsky, and J. A. Switzer, Epitaxial electrodeposition of copper(I) oxide on single-crystal gold(100). Chem.  Mater. 11, 2289-2291 (1999).

(9)  J. A. Switzer, C. J. Hung, B. E. Breyfogle, M. G. Shumsky, R. Van Leeuwen, and T. D. Golden, Electrodeposited defect-chemistry superlattices. Science 264, 1573 (1994).

(10) J. A. Switzer, M. J. Shane, and R. J. Phillips, Electrodeposited ceramic superlattices. Science, 247, 444 (1990).

 

Students and Postdoctoral Associates recently supervised

Undergraduate Students (15 total)

(Present)   Christine Clauson and Isaiah Robertson.

Graduate Students (29 total)

(Present)   John Tubbesing, Bin Luo, and Xiaoting Zhang.

(Previous) Dr. Caleb Hull (VP, Catalytic Innovations), Dr. Meagan Kelso (Applied Materials), Dr. Qingzhi Chen (VerAvanti), Dr. Naveen Mahenderkar (Lam Research), Dr. Allen Liu (Lam Research). Dr. Sanaz Parast (postdoc, MS&T), Dr. Rakesh Gudavarthy (Intel), Dr. Elizabeth A. Kulp (Mallinckrodt), Dr. Zhen He (Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China), Dr. Sansanee Boonsalee (Depart. Of Science Service, Bangkok, Thailand), Dr. Guojun Mu (Global Foundaries), Dr. Hiten Kothari (Intel); Dr. Richard Phillips (SunEdison); Dr. Mike Shane (Kyocera Ceramics); Dr. Bryan Breyfogle (Professor and Chairman of Chemistry, Southwest Missouri State University); Dr. Ling-Yuang Huang (Professor, Chem. Engr., National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan); Dr. Chen-Jen Hung (CEO, Taiwan Solar): Dr. Eric Bohannan (X-ray Specialist at MS&T). Dr. Run Liu (Associate Professor of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, China).

 

Postdoctoral Associates (15 total)

(Present)   Dr. Avishek Banik

(Previous) Dr. Jakub Koza (Brewer Science), Dr. James Hill (Bioanalytical Systems), Dr. Teresa Golden (Professor of Chemistry at the University of North Texas), Dr. Steven Limmer (EverReady); Dr. Shaibal Sarkar (Assistant Professor, India Institute of Technology- Bombay); Dr. Vishnu Rajasekharan (Hach); Dr. Ryne Raffaelle (Vice President for Research and Assoc. Provost, Rochester Inst. of Technology), Dr. Alexey Vertegel (Assoc. Professor of Bioengineering at Clemson University), Dr. Shuji Nakanishi (Professor of Chemistry at Osaka University), Dr. Philippe Poizot (Professor, Univ. de Nantes, France), Dr. Thomas A. Sorenson (First Solar).