Chris Wolverton

Christopher "Chris" Wolverton is the Jerome B. Cohen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering atNorthwestern University.

Wolverton obtained his B.S. (Summa cum laude) degree in physics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1987. In 1993 he got his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and then served as a postdoc at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory until 1996. He was promoted to Staff Scientist and moved to the Ford Research and Innovation Center in Dearborn, Michigan where he worked as a Senior Technical Specialist from 1999 to 2003. A year later, Wolverton became a group leader of the Hydrogen Storage and Nanoscale Modeling Group and later became technical leader of the Ford Research Laboratory. Since 2007, he is a Professor at Northwestern University.

Scientific research

In 2015 Wolverton had operated Open Quantum Materials Database and in 2018 he had co-authored a research paper with Apurva Mehta on how to synthesize artificial intelligence in order to produce amorphous metal.

In 2017, Wolverton had studied electronic entropy, and discovered that cerium is responsible for it to work properly.

He is also a botanist at the Plant Gravity Perception where he and his colleagues had studied A. thaliana.

Editorial work

As an editor, Wolverton had served on an editorial board of Scientific Data and was a guest editor of the MRS Bulletin. He also had served on various committees of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society and its advisory board.

In 2006, Wolverton was awarded the Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society and in 2014 became a recipient of the Martin E. and Gertrude G. Walder Award for Research Excellence. He also was awarded the USCAR Recognition Award in 2005 and many awards from the Ford Motor Company.