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 UniversitÑt 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 research activities include: dielectric properties, defects, diffusion, and nuclear spin relaxation in glasses and ceramics; physical and chemical structure of glass; radiation enhanced processing; glass-metal reactions; materials problems in nuclear waste management; etc. He is a discoverer of 'anomalous isotope mass effect in glass'. Professor Jain has edited three books and is a coauthor of two patents and numerous research papers. He is a recipient of Humboldt and Campbell Fellowships. He maintains active collaborations with several institutions in Germany, Greece, India and U.S.A. This goes well with him as he enjoys visiting new places in his spare time.
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