Takeshi Egami

Takeshi Egami received his Bachelor’s degree in Applied Physics from the University of Tokyo in 1968, and his PhD in Materials Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971. After the postdoctoral research at the University of Sussex, U.K. and Max-Planck-Institute in Stuttgart, Germany, he returned to the University of Pennsylvania in 1973 as Assistant Professor. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1976, to Professor in 1980, and was the Chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering from 1997 to 2002. He moved to the current position in 2003. He was Founding Director of UT-ORNL Joint-Institute for Neutron Sciences, currently Shull-Wollan Center (2008 – 2015). Egami has authored or co-authored 1 book, over 30 full reviews and over 550 technical papers. He gave over 370 invited technical presentations at national and international conferences.