MAE Colloquium: Rob Carpick (UPenn)

Bio: Robert Carpick is the John Henry Towne Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania. He studies nanotribology, nanomechanics, scanning probes, and mechanochemistry. He is a recipient of numerous awards including the AVS Nanotechnology Recognition Award and the Midwest Mechanics Speakership. He is a Fellow of several societies including the ASME, the American Physical Society, the Materials Research Society, and the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers. He holds 10 patents, has authored over 220 journal publications, and is co-author of the textbook “Tribology on the Small Scale”. He received his B.Sc. (University of Toronto, 1991), his Ph.D. (University of California at Berkeley, 1997) in physics and was a postdoctoral researcher at Sandia National Laboratory. He served as MEAM department chair from 2011-2019.