Rodney S. Ruoff, UNIST Distinguished Professor (The
Departments of Chemistry and Materials Science, and The School of Energy
Science and Chemical Engineering), directs the Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials (CMCM), an Institute
for Basic Science Center (IBS Center) located at the Ulsan National Institute
of Science and Technology (UNIST) campus. Prior to joining UNIST in 2014, he
was the Cockrell Family Regents Endowed Chair Professor at the University of Texas
at Austin from September, 2007. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from
the University of Illinois-Urbana in 1988, and was a Fulbright Fellow in
1988-89 at the Max Planck Institute für Strömungsforschung in Göttingen,
Germany. He was at Northwestern University from January 2000 to August 2007,
where he was the John Evans Professor of Nanoengineering and director of NU’s Biologically Inspired Materials Institute,
and did research at the Molecular Physical Laboratory, SRI International for 6
years after being a postdoctoral fellow at IBM TJ Watson Research Center.
Further information about Rod is at http://cmcm.ibs.re.kr/
and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_S._Ruoff