Timothy J. Rupert
Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
| Location: | 444E Engineering Tower | |
| Email: | trupert@uci.edu | |
| Phone: | (949) 824-4937 | |
| Address: | The Henry Samueli School of Engineering University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-2575 |
Profile
Prof. Tim Rupert joined the University of California, Irvine in 2011. Prof. Rupert’s research focuses on uncovering new structure-property relationships in nanomaterials for structural and energy applications, as well as increasing the reliability and lifetime of these materials. To achieve their research goals, his lab uses a combination of computational and experimental techniques. He has published over 60 peer-reviewed scientific papers, including articles in top journals such as Science, Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters, and Acta Materialia. In recent years, Prof. Rupert has received an NSF CAREER Award, a DOE Early Career Research Program Award, an ARO Young Investigator Program Award, a Hellman Fellowship, the ASM International Bradley Stoughton Award for Young Teachers, and the AIME-TMS Rossiter W. Raymond Memorial Award. He serves on the editorial boards of Materials Science and Engineering A, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, and Scientific Reports. For the Metals, Minerals, and Materials Society (TMS), he is the current Chair of the Thin Films and Interfaces Committee, has also been a Programming Committee Representative, served on the Awards Subcommittee, and was a Young Leaders Representative for the Structural Materials Division Council. Prof. Rupert recently helped lead the planning and implementation of the inaugural Frontiers of Materials Award and has been elected as the incoming Director and Chair of Programming for TMS.
Education
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011
M.S., Johns Hopkins University, 2007
B.S., Johns Hopkins University, 2007
Research
Prof. Rupert’s current research focuses on the design, synthesis, and characterization of advanced nanostructured materials with an emphasis on studying atomic scale structure and properties. He recently has also developed projects in the area of defects-by-design, where local defect structure can be tuned by controlling chemistry, temperature, or other thermodynamic variables to access stable defect states called complexions. His group has used this concept to achieve transformative improvements in mechanical properties, microstructural stability, and damage tolerance of nanomaterials.