University Park, Pennsylvania – John MauroDorothy Pate Enright Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, was appointed head of the Penn State materials department of materials, from July 1. Mauro will succeed Susan Sinnott, who has been head of the department since 2015.
“I really feel honored and excited by this opportunity to lead the Penn State Ministry of Sciences and Engineering,” said Mauro. “I am very grateful to my colleagues for the confidence they have placed in me and Susanott for his exceptional leadership in the past 10 years.”
Mauro, who joined the Faculty of Penn State in 2017, is an expert in materials of materials and glass and co-inventor of internationally recognized materials of Lionge. Before joining Penn State, Mauro worked for 18 years as an industrial researcher at Corning Incorporated, where he was a co-inventor of three iterations of Corning Gorilla Glass, a slim, durable and sensitive cover glass that has been Used in billions of billions of cell phones, tablets and tactile screen devices worldwide.
“Given his incredible research achievements and his current work on Lionglass, it is particularly rewarding that Professor Mauro is arranged and eager to serve students, teachers and staff in this important role of leadership,” said Lee KUMP, the John Leone Dean at the College of Earth and mineral sciences.
Mauro is president of the Higher Study Program with Penn State Intercollege in Material Sciences and Engineering and Partner Manager for Higher Education at the Earth and Mineral Sciences College (EMS).
“John managed to run when he joined the department by writing two textbooks, revitalizing our courses on glass and kinetics, supervising the work of a small army of students and post-doctoral students, publishing many Articles in peer assessment journals, fileing patents – including for the now famous lion’s material – and excelling in the service of the department and the profession, “said Susan Sinnott, current chief of the Department of Science of Materials and engineering.
Mauro is a member of the American Ceramic Society, the Society of Glass Technology and the National Academy of Inventors. He is elected member of the National Academy of Engineering and Academician elected to the World Academy of Ceramics.
Mauro is the author of more than 380 publications evaluated by peers and is the editor -in -chief of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society. He is a co-author of “Fundaments of Inorganic Glasses”, the final manual on glass sciences and technology, and the author of the manual published in 2021, “Materials Kinetics: Transport and Rate Phenomena”.
Mauro received the medal of the University’s faculty researchers for his exceptional achievements in 2021 and the EMS Paul F. Robertson Prize for the search for breakthroughs of the year in 2020 for his pioneer work in the decoding of the “genome of Glass ยป – The code to design new functional glasses. He also received the Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching of EMS in 2022.
Mauro obtained a baccalaureate in Sciences in glass engineering sciences and a baccalaureate in computer arts, both in 2001, and a doctorate in glass sciences in 2006, all of Alfred University.