Yury Gogotsi, Distinguished University Professor and Trustee Chair in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University, has been selected for the 2014 Fred Kavli Distinguished Lectureship in Nanoscience. He will present the lecture at the 2014 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting in San Francisco on April 21 at 6:00 p.m. in Salon 7 of the Marriott Marquis. The title of his talk is “Not just graphene—The wonderful world of carbon (and related) nanomaterials.”

Gogotsi’s research interests include synthesis and chemical modification of carbon-based nanomaterials for electrochemical energy storage and water deslination. He also works on carbon nanopipettes for single cell studies and nanodiamonds for drug delivery applications. He received his MS (1984) and PhD (1986) degrees from Kiev Polytechnic and a DSc degree from the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in 1995.

Among Gogotsi’s numerous awards and honors are a European Carbon Association Award, Chang Jiang Scholar Award from the Chinese Ministry of Education, S. Somiya Award from the International Union of Materials Research Societies, and two R&D 100 Awards from R&D Magazine. He is a Fellow of MRS, The American Ceramic Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and The Electrochemical Society. Gogotsi has authored/co-authored two books, more than 380 peer-reviewed papers, edited 13 books, and obtained more than 40 patents.