David J. Srolovitz

Dr. Srolovitz joins Penn Engineering following a post in Singapore where he served as the Executive Director of the Institute of High Performance Computing and Scientific Director of A*STAR's Science and Engineering Research Council. He received a bachelor's degree in Physics from Rutgers University in 1978 and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in Materials Science and Engineering in 1982.

Dr. Srolovitz is a leading scholar in theoretical and computational materials science. He has coauthored more than 400 publications with over 15,000 citations in the areas of crystal defects, microstructure, and morphology and their evolution with papers appearing in venues such as Nature, Science, PNAS, Physical Review Letters, Nano Letters and Acta Materialia. Dr. Srolovitz is particularly well known for his work on surface stability, grain growth and film growth.