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John Rogers

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Lee J. Flory-Founder Chair in Engineering Innovation, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Professor of Chemistry

Office 3355 Beckman Institute

Telephone 217-244-4979 Fax 217-333-2736

Mail Address Department of Materials Science and Engineering
1304 W. Green St., Urbana, IL 61801

jrogers@illinois.edu    Rogers research group page

  • Elected to Junior Fellow of the Harvard University Society of Fellows (1995-1997)
  • Selected by MIT's Technology Review magazine as one of the top 100 young innovators for the 21st century (1999)
  • Co-Organizer for APS Symposium (March 1999)
  • Co-Organizer for DARPA Workshop (December 1999)
  • Selected by the National Academy of Engineering as one of the top 100 young engineers (2000)
  • Co-Organizer for MRS Symposium (Fall 2000, Spring 2001)
  • Robert B. Woodward Scholar, Harvard University (2001)
  • R&D Magazine's Editor's Choice for the "Best of the Best" new technology: Printed Plastic Circuits (2001)
  • R&D100 Innovation Award from R&D Magazine: Printed Plastic Display Circuits (2001)
  • C0-Editor for MRS Bulletin (July 2001)
  • OFC Attendee's Choice Award from Lightwave Magazine for the dynamic dispersion compensator (2002)
  • Excellence in Technical Innovation from Laser Focus World Magazine for tunable microfluidic optical fiber (2002)
  • R&D100 Innovation Award from R&D Magazine: Dynamic Dispersion Compensator (2002)
  • American Chemical Society Award for Team Innovation: Printed Plastic Electronics and E-Paper (2002)
  • Circle of Excellence Award from Photonics Spectra Magazine (2002)
  • Founder Professor of Engineering, UIUC (2003-)
  • Fellow, American Physical Society (2006)
  • Xerox Distinguished Lecturer (2006)
  • Baekeland Award, American Chemical Society (2007)
  • Tau Beta Pi Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award, UIUC (2007)
  • Fellow, Materials Research Society (2008)