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Eugene A. Fitzgerald, Head of TWI's R&D Team
Dr. Fitzgerald is the Merton C. Flemings SMA Professor of Materials Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as being Visiting Professor of Management and Visiting Professor of Engineering at Cornell University. He received a BS degree in Materials Science and Engineering in 1985 from MIT, and later earned a PhD in the same discipline from in 1989 from Cornell University. Dr. Fitzgerald performed research at AT&T Bell Laboratories in the areas of novel materials and devices from 1988 to 1994.. In 1999, he became an SMA fellow in the Singapore-MIT Alliance working in research and development collaboration with the country of Singapore for nearly a decade.
Dr. Fitzgerald's interests include nanoengineered materials, novel devices, and heterostructure energy devices. He has served on the Editorial Board of Materials Science and Engineering Reports since 1995, as well as on the Board of the Materials Research Society from 2003-2006. Dr. Fitzgerald is also founding director of the Business of Science and Technology Initiative at Cornell. He currently has more that (50) issued US patents with several others pending. He has been the author and co-author of more than 200 technical papers.
In addition to his academic experience, Dr. Fitzgerald has operated in the private business sector, specializing in the commercialization of core technologies - and has gained considerable expertise through his direct involvement in multiple start-up companies. His experience includes being founder, co-founder, or founding team member in AmberWave Systems Corporation, Contour Semiconductor, Paradigm Research, LLC, 4Power LLC, and, now, The Water Initiative.
Dr. Fitzgerald's interests include nanoengineered materials, novel devices, and heterostructure energy devices. He has served on the Editorial Board of Materials Science and Engineering Reports since 1995, as well as on the Board of the Materials Research Society from 2003-2006. Dr. Fitzgerald is also founding director of the Business of Science and Technology Initiative at Cornell. He currently has more that (50) issued US patents with several others pending. He has been the author and co-author of more than 200 technical papers.
In addition to his academic experience, Dr. Fitzgerald has operated in the private business sector, specializing in the commercialization of core technologies - and has gained considerable expertise through his direct involvement in multiple start-up companies. His experience includes being founder, co-founder, or founding team member in AmberWave Systems Corporation, Contour Semiconductor, Paradigm Research, LLC, 4Power LLC, and, now, The Water Initiative.
