Professor John A. Rogers obtained BA and BS degrees in chemistry and in physics from the University of Texas, Austin, in 1989. From MIT, he received SM degrees in physics and in chemistry in 1992 and the PhD degree in physical chemistry in 1995. From 1995 to 1997, Rogers was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard University Society of Fellows. During this time he also served as a Director for Active Impulse Systems, a company based on his PhD research that he co-founded in 1995 and which was acquired by a large company in 1998. He joined Bell Laboratories as a Member of Technical Staff in the Condensed Matter Physics Research Department in 1997, and served as Director of this department from 2000-2002. He currently holds a primary appointment in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and is affiliated with the Beckman Institute, the Materials Research Laboratory as well as the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Science and Engineering and Chemistry.
Rogers’ research includes fundamental and applied aspects of nano and molecular scale fabrication as well as materials and patterning techniques for unusual format electronics and photonic systems. He has published >200 papers, and is co-inventor on >70 patents and patent applications, more than 40 of which are licensed or in active use by large companies (e.g. Lucent Technologies) and startups (e.g. Active Impulse Systems and Semprius).
His research has been recognized with many awards including, most recently the Xerox Distinguished Lecturer Award (2006) and the Dorn Lectureship in Materials Science at Northwestern University (2007), the Daniel Drucker Eminent Faculty Award from the University of Illinois (2007) the Leo Hendrick Baekeland Award, from the American Chemical Society (2007).
His teaching has been recognized many times through selection to the UIUC Unofficial List of Teachers Ranked Excellent by Their Students. Rogers was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2006 and as an inaugural Fellow of the Materials Research Society in 2007. He serves, or has recently served, on several Editorial Boards, including those for Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics and Nano Letters. He also is Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, and SPIE Journal of Microlithography, Microfabrication and Microsystems.
Website: http://rogers.mse.uiuc.edu/