Prof. Joseph Koo

The University of Texas

The ATLAS Team have the pleasure of hosting Professor Koo during the chilly month of August.  Dr. Koo has over 40 years of industrial and academic experience in program and engineering management.  Currently, he is Sr. Research Scientist/Research Professor/Director of Polymer Nanocomposites Technology Lab in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX.  Dr. Koo is the founder of KAI, LLC and currently serves as Vice President and CTO.  He is a SAMPE Fellow and Chairman of the SAMPE Nanotechnology Committee.  Dr. Koo is an Associate Fellow of AIAA and Past-Chair of the AIAA Materials Technical Committee.  He has an excellent track record for developing well-funded research programs sponsored by DOD (AFOSR, AFRL, AMRDEC, DTRA, MDA, NAVAIR, NAVSEA, NSWC, and ONR), DOE, DOT, EPA, FAA, NASA, and private companies. His research group specializes in “Polymer Nanocomposites Technology Designed for Extreme Environments” for four major research areas:

  • Ablation Research
  • Additive Manufacturing Polymers
  • Flame Retardant Polymers
  • Conductive Polymers and Composites

Dr. Koo’s publications include two books, Polymer Nanocomposites: Processing, Characterization, and Applications, McGraw-Hill, New York (2006), and Fundamentals, Properties, and Applications of Polymer Nanocomposites, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK (2016), and over 550 papers/presentations in materials, thermal, and optical science disciplines. Two new books are forthcoming: Ablation Science and Technology: Processing, Characterization, and Applications, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK (2019) and Polymer Nanocomposites: Processing, Characterization and Applications, 2nd Ed., McGraw-Hill, New York (2018).

 

Professor Koo will be presenting three seminars during his visit; to view the event details of these seminars refer to the below links or contact atlas-innovation@rmit.edu.au.

 

Seminar #1   //   Wednesday 8 August  /   3:00pm – 4:30pm    //   Level 3 Seminar Room / AMP – BLD 55 // RMIT UNIVERSITY / City Campus
Seminar #2   //   Friday 10 August   /   12:00pm – 1:00pm      //     Seminar Room / BLD 251 / RMIT UNIVERSITY / Bundoora East 
Seminar #3   //   Tuesday 14 August  /   12:30pm – 2:00pm    //    Level 3 Seminar Room / AMP – BLD 55 // RMIT UNIVERSITY / City Campus

 

 

PROFESSOR JOSEPH H. KOO
The University of Texas at Austin
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Texas Materials Institute, Austin, TX 78712-0292, USA
jkoo@mail.utexas.edu and www.me.utexas.edu/~koo