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David A. Payne was born in 1941 in Manchester, England. He earned his B.Sc. (Hons.) in Ceramics from the University of Leeds in 1963. From 1963-65 he worked at Northern Electric Company, Montreal, Canada on ferromagnetic ceramics, and from 1965-67 at Sprague Electric Company, N. Adams, MA on ferroelectric ceramics. In 1967 he received his M.S. in Physics from Williams College, Williamstown, MA. From 1967-73 he was employed at Erie Technological Products, State College, PA on research and development of ceramic capacitors and earned his Ph.D. in Solid State Science from the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA in 1973. His thesis advisor was Professor L. E. Cross. From 1973-74 Dr. Payne was a Post Doctoral Research Associate in the Materials Research Laboratory at Penn. State carrying out research on ferroelectricity.

In 1974 Dr. Payne joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an Assistant Professor of Ceramic Engineering (Assoc. Prof. '78, Prof. '81). He is currently a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. He has held several administrative appointments, including Head, Ceramic Engineering (1986-88); Acting Head, Materials Science and Engineering (1987-88); and Associate Director, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology (1991-94). Interdisciplinary research professorships at UIUC include Microelectronics Center (1982-90), Cement Center (1984-1996), Science and Technology Center for Superconductivity (1987-98), and Beckman Institute (1989-1998). He held the Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals Chair in Frontier Chemistry in the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo, Japan (1989-90).

Professor Payne's research is directed at electrical ceramics, ferroelectrics, piezoelectrics, ceramic processing, microstructure-property relations, crystal growth, materials chemistry, sol-gel processing, micro-contact printing, superconductors and magneto resistivity. He is active in the international electrical ceramics community and has held every officer position in the Electronics Division of the American Ceramic Society.

Professor Payne has published more than 285 scientific papers and graduated 56 M.S. and Ph.D. students. Ten patents have been issued from the research.