Director, Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center
Robert W. Hunt Professor of Materials Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Education:
A.B., Physics, Williams College, 1958
M.S., Physics, University of Illinois, 1960
Ph.D., Metallurgy, University of Illinois, 1965

Career Highlights:
Siegel is the past chairman of the International Committee on Nanostructured Materials and earlier served on the U.S. National Materials Advisory Board Committee on Materials with Submicron-Sized Microstructures. He was the co-chairman of the Study Panel on Clusters and Cluster-Assembled Materials for the U.S. Department of Energy. He was on the faculty of the State University of New York at Stony Brook from 1966 to 1976 and at Argonne National Laboratory from 1974 to 1995, and has authored more than 180 publications in the areas of defects in metals; diffusion; and nanophase metal, ceramic, and composite materials. Siegel also has presented more than 300 invited lectures around the world and has edited seven books on these subjects. Science Watch listed him as the fourth most highly cited author in materials science from 1990 through1994. Siegel is an associate editor of Materials Letters and a founding principal editor of Nanostructured Materials. He is a founder and director of Nanophase Technologies Corporation, and was recognized for this effort by a 1991 U.S. Federal Laboratory Consortium Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer. He is an honorary member of the Materials Research Societies of India and Japan, a 1994 recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Senior Research Award in Germany, and he presented the 1996 MacDonald Lecture in Canada.

Research Areas:
Siegel’s research focuses on the nature and physical properties of defects in metals, atomic diffusion, and most recently on the synthesis and processing, characterization, and properties of nanostructured materials, nanocomposites, and biomaterials.

Contact Information:
Richard Siegel
(518) 276-8846
rwsiegel@rpi.edu
http://www.eng.rpi.edu/soe/directory_faculty_details.cfm?facultyID=sieger