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Professor Robert J. Cava Russell Wellman Moore Professor of Chemistry Department of Chemistry Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 Tel: (609) 258-0016 Fax: (609) 258-6746 E-mail: rcava@princeton.edu |
| Resume Fall 2002 Excellence in Teaching Award |
Robert J. Cava
Ph. D. Ceramics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1977
M.S., B.S.; Materials Science and Engineering, M.I.T 1974
Professional Experience
Chair, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University 2004-present
Acting Director, Princeton Materials Institute, Princeton University 2001-2002
Associate Director, Princeton Materials Institute, Princeton University 1999-2001
Professor of Chemistry and Materials Institute Princeton University 1996 - present
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff Bell Laboratories 1985 - 1996
Member of Technical Staff Bell Laboratories 1979 - 1985
National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow NIST 1978
Temporary Member of Technical Staff Lincoln Laboratory 1977
Visiting Scientist Positions
Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA;
National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA;
Riso National Laboratory, Denmark;
Laboratory of Crystallography CNRS Grenoble, France;
Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Japan
Honors, Professional Associations
Russell Wellman Moore Professor of Chemistry, Princeton 2006
Excellence in Teaching Award, Princeton Engineering Council 2006
Presidents Award for Distinguished Teaching, Princeton 2005
John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science, National Academy of Sciences 2005
Excellence in Teaching Award, Princeton Engineering Council 2003
Fellow, American Ceramic Society 2003
Member, National Academy of Sciences 2001
Chair, NSF workshop on the Future of Solid State Chemistry 2001
Wulff Award in Materials Science 2000
Chair, Gordon Conference in Solid State Chemistry
Welch Foundation Lectureship 1998
Spedding Lecturer, Ames Laboratory 1998
ACS Prize in the Chemistry of Materials 1997
Matthias Prize for new superconducting materials 1996
Honor Scroll of the American Institute of Chemists 1990
Fellow American Physical Society 1988
Electrochemical Society Lectureship 1988
NAS Panel on High Temperature Superconductivity 1987
Member, American Ceramic Society & Materials Research Society
Research
Physical property and materials science directed solid state chemistry.
Synthesis, structure, and physical property characterization of new transition
metal oxide, chalcogenide, intermetallic and pnictide compounds.
Superconductors, magnetic materials, transparent electronic conductors, dielectrics,
thermoelectrics, and correlated electron systems.
350 Professional Publications, 30 patent applications.
