Dr. Timothy S. Fisher (AAE By Courtesy) named as the James G. Dwyer Professor in Mechanical Engineering

Dr. Timothy S. Fisher (AAE By Courtesy) was named as the James G. Dwyer Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the Board of Trustees meeting Friday May 10, 2013

Dr. Fisher came to Purdue in 2002 as an associate professor of mechanical engineering. Before that he was an assistant professor from 1998-2002 at Vanderbilt University. He became a professor in 2007. From 2009-2012 he served part-time as a research scientist at the Air Force Research Laboratory.

His areas of research are in heat, mass and electrical transport associated with nanoscale carbon materials such as carbon nanotubes and graphene. His research has resulted in significant improvements in thermal and electric transport at interfaces, advanced electron emission devices and enhanced cooling of semiconductor devices. He also has research programs involving transport processes in hydrogen storage devices, microfluidic sensors for bioanalysis and modeling of thermal systems. He recently co-founded a new company, Folium Nanotechnologies, LLC, that will commercialize several of his group's inventions.

He is co-director of the India-U.S. Joint Networked Centre on Nanomaterials for Energy. He has received the National Science Foundation Career Award, is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and has won the ASME's McDonald Mentoring Award. He also has been a Purdue Faculty Scholar. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals and is the incoming co-editor of the journal Energy Conversion and Management. He received his bachelor's degree and doctorate from Cornell University.