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donald.siegel@austin.utexas.edu
Office Location: ETC 5.208A

Donald Siegel

Department Chair and Professor

Temple Foundation Endowed Professorship #4, Cockrell Family Chair for Departmental Leadership #4

Department Research Areas

Advanced Materials Science and Engineering
Clean Energy Technology
Computational Engineering

Research Interests

Computational materials science; materials for energy storage; sustainable transportation; materials discovery; machine learning; microstructural and mechanical properties

Bio

Don Siegel is Professor and Chair of the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin (UT). At UT he is a Temple Foundation Endowed Professor and holds a Cockrell Family Chair for Departmental Leadership. He is a Core Faculty Member in the Texas Materials Institute and in the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences. Prior to joining UT in 2021, Prof. Siegel spent 12 years as a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan (UM). Prior to joining UM, he was a Technical Expert at Ford Research and Advanced Engineering in Dearborn, MI, and held postdoctoral research positions at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and Sandia National Labs.

Educational Qualifications

  • B.S., Mathematical Physics, Case Western Reserve University, 1995
  • Ph.D., Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001
  • Certificate in Computational Science & Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001

Select Awards & Honors

  1. E. & M. Ulsoy Citation Leader Award, UM Mechanical Engineering Department (2021)
  2. KAIST BK21 Lectureship (2019)
  3. U.S. Department of Energy, Secretary of Energy’s Achievement Award (2018)
  4. Invited Panelist and Writer, Basic Research Needs for Next Generation Electrical Energy Storage (2017)
  5. VELUX Visiting Professor – Technical University of Denmark (2015)
  6. NAE Gilbreth Lecturer (2014)
  7. NSF CAREER Award (2013)
  8. TMS/Japan Institute of Metals International Scholar Award (2009)
  9. TMS Young Leader Professional Development Award (2008)
  10. Materials Research Society Graduate Student Award (2001)

Related Websites

https://sites.google.com/utexas.edu/esms-lab

Select Publications 

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