New Advisory Board member
Materials Horizons welcomes John A Rogers
Materials Horizons is pleased to welcome Professor John A Rogers from Northwestern University, USA to the Advisory Board.
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 a PhD degree in physical chemistry in 1995. From 1995 to 1997, Rogers was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard University Society of Fellows. He joined Bell Laboratories as a Member of Technical Staff in 1997 and then served as Director of the Condensed Matter Physics Research Department from the end of 2000 to 2002. He then spent thirteen years on the faculty at the University of Illinois, most recently as the Swanlund Chair Professor and Director of the Seitz Materials Research Laboratory. In the Fall of 2016, he moved to Northwestern University where he is Director of the Querrey-Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics. He has co-authored nearly 1000 papers and he is co-inventor on more than 100 patents, more than 70 or which are licensed to large companies or to startups that have emerged from his labs. He is co-founder of several biotech companies, currently including Sibel Health, Epicore Biosystems, Rhaeos, Neurolux and Wearifi. He is most proud, however, that more than 150 former members of his group are currently in faculty positions at top institutions around the world, including MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Dartmouth, Duke, Cornell, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, University of Southern California, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Purdue University, University of California at San Diego, University of California at Santa Barbara, University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M University and many others in the US, along with a large collection of universities in Europe and Asia, including TU Delft, ETH, Tsinghua, Fudan, Peking, SNU, KAIST, Univ. of Toronto and many others.
His research has been recognized by many awards, including the Monie Ferst for research mentorship, from Sigma Xi (2021). Others are a MacArthur Fellowship (2009), the Lemelson-MIT Prize (2011), the Smithsonian Award for American Ingenuity in the Physical Sciences (2013), the MRS Medal (2018), the Benjamin Franklin Medal from the Franklin Institute (2019), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2021), the James Prize for Science and Technology Integration from the NAS (2022) and the IEEE Biomedical Engineering Award (2024). He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Inventors and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
John’s research seeks to understand and exploit interesting characteristics of ‘soft’ materials, such as polymers, liquid crystals, and biological tissues as well as hybrid combinations of them with unusual classes of micro/nanomaterials, in the form of ribbons, wires, membranes, tubes or related. The aim is to control and induce novel electronic and photonic responses in these materials; his group also develop new ‘soft lithographic’ and biomimetic approaches for patterning them and guiding their growth. This work combines fundamental studies with forward-looking engineering efforts in a way that promotes positive feedback between the two. Current research focuses on soft materials for conformal electronics, nanophotonic structures, microfluidic devices, and microelectromechanical systems, all lately with an emphasis on bio-inspired and bio-integrated technologies. These efforts are highly multidisciplinary, and combine expertise from nearly every traditional field of technical study.
Discover some of John’s recent work in RSC journals
Seunghee H. Cho, Soongwon Cho, Zengyao Lv, Yurina Sekine, Shanliangzi Liu, Mingyu Zhou, Ravi F. Nuxoll, Evangelos E. Kanatzidis, Roozbeh Ghaffari, Donghwan Kim, Yonggang Huang and John A. Rogers Lab Chip, 2025,25, 1647-1655 |
Yunyun Wu, Xinming Li, Kenneth E. Madsen, Haohui Zhang, Soongwon Cho, Ruihao Song, Ravi F. Nuxoll, Yirui Xiong, Jiaqi Liu, Jingyuan Feng,abf Tianyu Yang, Kaiqing Zhang, Alexander J. Aranyosi, Donald E. Wright, Roozbeh Ghaffari, Yonggang Huang, Ralph G. Nuzzo and John A. Rogers Lab Chip, 2024,24, 4288-4295 |
Da Som Yang, Yixin Wu, Evangelos E. Kanatzidis, Raudel Avila, Mingyu Zhou, Yun Bai, Shulin Chen, Yurina Sekine, Joohee Kim, Yujun Deng, Hexia Guo, Yi Zhang, Roozbeh Ghaffari, Yonggang Huang and John A. Rogers Mater. Horiz., 2023,10, 4992-5003
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