Thomas Russell
russell@mail.pse.umass.edu
Thomas P. Russell, the Silvio O. Conte Distinguished Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, received his PhD in 1979 in Polymer Science and Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a Research Associate at the University of Mainz (1979-1981), a Research Staff Member at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA (1981-96). He is also a Visiting Faculty at the Materials Science Division in the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and a PI at the Advanced Institute of Materials Research at Tohoku University He has over 1,100 publications, 40 patents, edited 5 books, and has an H-index of 172. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, Materials Research Society, Neutron Scattering Society of America, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Chemical Society, Polymer Materials Science and Engineering Division. He has received the Polymer Physic Prize of the APS, the Cooperative Research Award of the ACS, the Dutch Polymer Award, the ACS Award in Applied Polymer Science, Society of Polymer Science Japan International Award, Shull Prize of the Neutron Scattering Society of America and is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Inventors.
