MSE News and Events
The MSE department welcomes new new Assistant Professor, Dr. Wei Bao, who will build a research group in the broad area of quantum materials for quantum information and quantum computing applications.
Prof. Jian Shi has won the prestigious 2023 IEEE Ferroelectrics Young Investigator Award “for his exciting out-of-box work on ferroelectrics and new way exploration of old materials." This highly-competitive award recognizes only one or two exceptional scientists under the age of 40 in the relevant field each year.
Dr. Hull has been appointed as Vice President for Research after serving as Acting Vice President for Research since March 2020. He also continues to serve as director of the Rensselaer Center for Materials, Devices, and Integrated Systems (cMDIS).
The Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant or tenured Associate Professor position in Materials Science and Engineering with expertise and potential in the broad area of bulk/thin film metallic materials.
Rensselaer researchers show that a ferroelectric van der Waals layered perovskite exhibits unique internal magnetic field profiles to enable fast and efficient spintronic devices at room temperature, in a work published in Nature Photonics.
Institute News
Meet the RPI Engineers Guiding Artemis II to the Moon and Back
When Reid Wiseman '97 straps into the Orion capsule as commander of Artemis II, NASA's first crewed lunar mission in more than half a century, he won't be the only RPI alum with a stake in the flight.
Scientists Create a New State of Matter at Room Temperature Using Light and Nanostructures
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have created a new and unusual state of matter — known as a supersolid — by engineering how light and matter interact inside a nanoscale device. The work, published in Nature Nanotechnology, demonstrates that this exotic quantum phase can exist at room temperature, overcoming a long-standing limitation in the field.
Alhussein Abouzeid Named Head of RPI’s Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) has appointed Professor Alhussein (Hussein) Abouzeid, Ph.D., as head of the department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering (ECSE).
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Awarded $3.3 Million Grant to Improve mRNA Purification Technology
Research aims to address a critical bottleneck in the production of mRNA therapeutics.
RPI Faculty Among World’s Most-Cited Researchers
Two RPI researchers, Ge Wang, Ph.D., Clark & Crossan Endowed Chair Professor and director of the Biomedical Imaging Center at RPI, and Fudong Han, Ph.D., associate professor and Priti & Mukesh Chatter '82 Career Development Chair, have earned a spot on Clarivate’s 2025 Highly Cited Researchers list.