Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier
Department of Chemistry

Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier (PhD, Iowa State University), Dow Professor of Chemistry and Associate Director of Science and Technology Center for Superconductivity (STCS). His research concerns the development of new ways of synthesizing novel and technically interesting inorganic solid-state compounds. He is Associate Editor, Inorganic Chemistry and serves on the Editorial Board of Journal of Alloys and Compounds, CHEMtracks, Chemistry of Materials, Solid State Sciences. He is Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Chair, American Chemical Society Division of Inorganic Chemistry–Solid-State Chemistry. Since 1996 he has been the leader of a group of faculty at NU engaged in collaborative research with the laboratoire de Cristallographie et Sciences de Matériaux (CRISMAT) and Department of Physics at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS-ESPCI). STCS also carries out collaborative research with CNRS and the Institut des Sciences, de la Matière et du Rayonnement (ISMRA) in the areas of superconducting oxides and magneto-resistive materials.

krp@northwestern.edu