Name : S. Ismat Shah
Title:Professor
Discipline:Physics
Email :ismat@udel.edu
Introduction :
S. Ismat Shah is a professor of physics and astronomy,materials science and engineering. He alsoserves as the director of energy and environmental policy programat University of Delaware. He received his DuPont Postdoctoral Fellow from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Education
1986 – 1987 DuPont Postdoctoral Fellow
Coordinated Sciences Laboratory
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1980 – 1986 Ph.D. Materials Science
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Advisor: Dr. Joe E. Greene
1974 – 1978 B.E. Metallurgical Engineering
NED Engineering College (NCET)
Karachi, Pakistan
Professional Experiences
July 2017 – Present Director, Energy and Environmental Policy Program
Sept. 2004 – Present Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
(Joint Appointment)
University of Delaware
Aug. 2009 – Present Senior Policy Fellow, Center for Energy and.
Environment Policy, University of Delaware
May 2012 – Present. Founding Fellow, Center for Science, Ethics and. Public Policy,
University of Delaware
Jan. 1999 – 2004 Associate Professor of Materials Science and. Engineering
Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy
(Joint Appointment)
University of Delaware
March, 2001 – Sept. 2003 Manager, Nanostructured Materials Program
Fraunhofer Center for Manufacturing and Advanced. Materials, Newark, Delaware
1987 –1999 Senior Research Scientist,
Central Research and Development
DuPont Company
Wilmington, Delaware
Specialty & Achievement
Teaching Interests
He teaches courses in Physics and Astronomy, Materials Science and Engineering.
Research Interests
The areas of Dr. Shah`s research include:
1. Nanomaterials for Energy, Environment and Water, including inorganic materials (CuInGSe2) and organic materials (P3HT/PCBM) based solar cells, device modeling, materials for photocatalysis, etc.
2. Large band gap oxides (TiO2) nanoparticles: Band structure modification.
3. Photocatlysis and Photoelectrocatalysis.
4. Nanomagnetics: Ferrites, Haussler alloys, core shell geometries.
5. Surface and interface analyses: XPS and UPS characterizations for studying interface interactions in electronic devices.
6. Science, Ethics, Diversity and Policy.
He has more than 220 peer reviewed publications. There are 4 additional papers that are currently under review. His h-index is 44.