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Juan M. Sanchez, Ph.D.
University of Texas at Austin

Juan M. Sanchez is the Vice President for Research at The University of Texas at Austin and holder of the Temple Foundation Endowed Professorship #4 in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Prior to joining the University of Texas in 1989, Dr. Sanchez was Assistant Professor (1981-85), Associate Professor (1985-87), and Professor (1987-89) of Materials Science at Columbia University in the City of New York. He was also Research Associate (1977-79) at the University of California, Los Angeles, Visiting Professor (1979) at the University of Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos, Brazil, and Research Associate and Lecturer (1980-81) at the University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Sanchez is the author and co-author of over 140 technical publications on a wide range of topics in materials science and engineering. His research interests are in the electronic, thermodynamic and structural properties of materials, especially intermetallic compounds, alloys, thin films and magnetic multilayers. Other interests of Dr. Sanchez include order-disorder theory, statistical thermodynamics, and modeling of phase diagrams using ab-initio electronic structure methods.

Dr. Sanchez is currently Chairman of the Visiting Committee for Advanced Technology of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and serves in the Board of Directors of several organizations including the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce, the Austin Software Council and the Texas Nanotechnology Initiative. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Association of Western Universities.


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