Gleb Yushin

Gleb Yushin is a professor at the School of Materials and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, co-founder of Sila Nanotechnologies, Inc. (an engineered materials company focused on dramatically improving energy storage), and co-editor-in-chief of Materials Today.
He joined MSE in July 2007 and has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the Roland B. Snow Award from the American Ceramic Society, the NASA Nanotech Briefs® Nano 50™ Award, the Petroleum Research Fund Young Investigator Award, the Honda Initiation Award, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Program Award, the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Young Investigator Award, the NASA Board of Inventions and Contributions Tech Brief Award, the Kavli Fellow Award, the Sigma Xi Award for Best Faculty Work, among others.
Professor Yushin has recently been named one of the “World’s Leading and Most Cited Researchers in the Sciences” by Clarivate Analytics and as one of the Electrochemical Society’s 20 members (out of more than 8,000) with the “World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds”. Professor Yushin’s research is mainly focused on the advancement of energy storage materials and devices for electronic devices, transportation, and grid applications.