Awards & Honors

Biography

Colin was awarded a National Research Council Associateship in 2019 after receiving his Ph.D. from the University of California Santa Barbara in 2019 in Materials, and his B.S.E. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2012 in Materials Science and Engineering. He has worked as an intern on high temperature titanium alloys with Arconic (formerly Alcoa) in 2017, ceramic processing for novel battery architectures at Xerion Advanced Battery Corp in 2012-2013, and high temperature ceramic composites at Vesuvius in 2011.  Colin has also enjoyed being a research assistant for the US Army Corps of Engineers on ceramic matrix composites, and at the Imperial College London on lead-free solders.  Outside of science, Colin spends time swimming, eating spicy food, watching Game of Thrones, and weaving tapestries.