Sergei V. Kalinin

Sergei V. Kalinin is the director of the Institute for Functional Imaging of Materials (IFIM) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and distinguished research staff member at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He is also a Joint Associate Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, and is an Adjunct Professor at Pennsylvania State University and at Sung Kyun Kwan University.

Kalinin graduated with M.S. from Department of Materials Science, Moscow State University, Russia in 1998. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2002.

Kalinin became the director of IFIM in June 2014. He has been a research staff member at ORNL since October 2004 (Senior since 2007, Distinguished since 2013). Previously he was Theme leader for Electronic and Ionic Functionality at CNMS, ORNL (2007– 2015).

He was a recipient of Eugene P. Wigner Fellowship (2002 - 2004).

He became Joint faculty at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education, University of Tennessee, Knoxville in December 2010. He also became adjunct professor at Sung Kyun Kwan University in January 2013.

He is a recipient of the RMS medal for Scanning Probe Microscopy (2015); Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) (2009); IEEE-UFFC Ferroelectrics Young Investigator Award (2010); Burton medal of Microscopy Society of America (2010); ISIF Young Investigator Award (2009); American Vacuum Society Peter Mark Memorial Award (2008); 3 R&D100 Awards (2008, 2010, and 2016); Ross Coffin Award (2003); Robert L. Coble Award of American Ceramics Society (2009); and a number of other distinctions.

He was named a fellow of MRS (2016), AVS (2015), APS (2015), and a senior member of IEEE (2015).

He is a member of editorial boards for Nanotechnology, Journal of Applied Physics/Applied Physics Letters, and Nature Partner Journal Computational Materials.