Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena

Associate Professor & Goizueta Endowed Chair

School of Materials Science & Engineering

Email: jpcorrea@gatech.edu

Website: baena.gatech.edu/

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Keywords: optoelectronics, materials, perovskites

Degrees:

PhD, Materials Science/Environmental Engineering, University of Connecticut
MS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut
BS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticutt

Bio

Dr. Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena is an Associate Professor and the Goizueta Junior Faculty Chair in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech. Before joining GT, he pursued two postdoctoral fellowships, one at EPFL in Switzerland and another at MIT. He joined the faculty at Georgia Tech in 2019 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2024. His group focuses on understanding the relationship between chemistry, crystallographic structures, and properties of emerging semiconducting materials for optoelectronic applications. His research program has attracted funding from the Department of Energy, the Department of Defense, the National Science Foundation, industry partners, and foundations, among others. His work has been cited over 40,000 times (h-index of 69) making him a top cited researcher as recognized every year by the Web of Science Group Highly Cited Researchers since 2019 and Nature Index Leading early career researcher in materials science (2019).

Honors & Awards

Dr. Correa-Baena is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for his contributions to the chemistry of halide perovskties. He is the recipient of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), Department of Energy along with numerous other awards including:

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, Chemistry
Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award
Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering (NAE), Participant
EES Lectureship Award, Royal Society of Chemistry
Best Scientist in the World, Rising Star, Research.com
Rising Star Award, Materials Today
Rising Star Invited Paper, Advanced Materials
MSE Faculty Service Award
Emerging Investigators, Journal of Materials Chemistry A
US Department of Energy, Postdoctoral Fellowship
Postdoctoral Researcher of the Year, EPFL
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship
National Science Foundation EAPSI Fellowship
Jack E. Stephens National Scholarship