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 Connecticut
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 EFPL
- National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship
- National Science Foundation EAPSI Fellowship
- Jack E. Stephens National Scholarship