Gleb Yushin

Gleb Yushin is a Professor at the School of Materials and Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, a co-Founder of Sila Nanotechnologies, Inc. (an engineered materials company focused on dramatically improving energy storage) and a co-Editor-in-Chief of Materials Today.

He joined MSE in July 2007 and has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the Roland B. Snow Award from the American Ceramic Society, NASA Nanotech Briefs® Nano 50™ Award, Petroleum Research Fund Young Investigator Award, Honda Initiation Award, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Program Award, National Science Foundation (NSF) Young Investigator CAREER Award, NASA Inventions and Contributions Board Tech Brief Award, Kavli Fellow Award, Sigma Xi Best Faculty Paper Award, among others.

Prof. Yushin was recently distinguished as one of the “Leading and Most Cited Researchers in Sciences Around the World” by Clarivate Analytics and as one of the 20 members of Electrochemical Society (out of 8,000+) with the “World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds.” Prof. Yushin’s research is primarily focused on advancing energy storage materials and devices for electronic devices, transportation and grid applications.

Prof. Yushin has co-authored over 35 patents and patent applications, over 120 invited and keynote presentations and seminars and over 130 publications on nanostructured materials for energy related applications, which received 20,000 citations by July 2018.