Himanshu Jain
Phone: (610) 758-4217
Director: International Materials Institute for New Functionality in Glass
Email: hj00@lehigh.edu
Prior to joining the faculty of Lehigh University in 1985, Dr. Jain worked as a researcher for six years at the Materials Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory, and the Nuclear Waste Management Division of Brookhaven National Laboratory. During this period he also taught a graduate course on ceramics at Columbia University in New York City and served as a Visiting Scientist at University of Dortmund, Germany and Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, India. At Lehigh he has introduced new courses on Dielectrics, Glasses, and Biomaterials. Dr. Jain's current research interests include: functionality in glass through fundamentals; point defects, electrical relaxation, conductivity and dielectrics properties of amorphous and crystalline ceramics; light-induced novel phenomena; glasses for IR biosensors, photo- and nano-lithography, photonics; tailored transparent ferroelectric nano-composites; nano-macro porous glass for bone-scaffolds; surface conduction; mechanisms of diffusion and nuclear spin relaxation in glasses; effect of radiation on transport properties; processing of materials for optical applications.
Professor Jain has edited 8 books, and is an author of 2 U.S. patents and over 260 research articles published in National and International journals, and government technical reports on glasses etc. He has received the Otto Schott Research international prize, Zachariasen international award for outstanding contribution to glass research, Doan award by his Department’s Senior class for the most influential teacher, a Fulbright Fellowship for lecturing and research at Cambridge and Aberdeen in UK, and a Humboldt Fellowship for research in Germany. He is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society.
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