Babak Anasori
Reilly Rising Star Associate Professor of Materials and Mechanical Engineering
Location: Indianapolis + West Lafayette
Research Interests
- Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal carbides and nitrides, MXenes
Biography
Dr. Babak Anasori received his PhD from Drexel University in 2014 in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, the birthplace of MXenes. After completing his PhD, he served as a Postdoctoral Associate from 2014 to 2016, then became a Research Assistant Professor at the A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University. In 2019, he began his independent career as an Assistant Professor at IUPUI. In 2023, he was hired by Purdue University through Purdue's Moveable Dream Hires as the Reilly Rising Star Associate Professor with tenure, holding joint appointments in the School of Materials Engineering and the School of Mechanical Engineering.
Dr. Anasori is one of the inventors of a family of MXenes, ordered double-transition metal MXenes, resulting from of his postdoctoral research, which was featured as one of the 2015's "biggest moments in chemistry" by the American Chemical Society. His lab is also the inventor of High Entropy MXenes (discovered in 2021), further expanding the possibilities and tunability of this family. Dr. Anasori's current research focuses on the synthesis and characterization of novel MXenes and their metal and ceramic composites. He is among the Global Highly Cited Researchers 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 recognized by the Web of Science. In 2023, ScholarGPS identified Dr. Anasori as the number #1 scholar in Mechanical Engineering in the past five years in the USA. Dr. Anasori has received several national and international awards, including NSF/Science Visualization Challenge in 2011 and 2013, the Diamond Award in ACerS Graduate Excellence in Materials Science (GEMS) in 2012, the Materials Research Society (MRS) Postdoctoral Award in 2016, Emerging Leaders of 2020 by the Journal of Physics, Condensed Matter, Drexel Forty-under-Forty in 2021, the 2021 WIN Rising Star Award in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and the 2024 Abraham M. Max Distinguished Professor Award from Purdue School of Engineering.
Dr. Anasori has originated and organized multiple international student competitions, including NanoArtography and Science in Video (SciVid). He is currently the chair of the Materials Research Society (MRS) Early Career Professionals Subcommittee.
Dr. Anasori is one of the inventors of a family of MXenes, ordered double-transition metal MXenes, resulting from of his postdoctoral research, which was featured as one of the 2015's "biggest moments in chemistry" by the American Chemical Society. His lab is also the inventor of High Entropy MXenes (discovered in 2021), further expanding the possibilities and tunability of this family. Dr. Anasori's current research focuses on the synthesis and characterization of novel MXenes and their metal and ceramic composites. He is among the Global Highly Cited Researchers 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 recognized by the Web of Science. In 2023, ScholarGPS identified Dr. Anasori as the number #1 scholar in Mechanical Engineering in the past five years in the USA. Dr. Anasori has received several national and international awards, including NSF/Science Visualization Challenge in 2011 and 2013, the Diamond Award in ACerS Graduate Excellence in Materials Science (GEMS) in 2012, the Materials Research Society (MRS) Postdoctoral Award in 2016, Emerging Leaders of 2020 by the Journal of Physics, Condensed Matter, Drexel Forty-under-Forty in 2021, the 2021 WIN Rising Star Award in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and the 2024 Abraham M. Max Distinguished Professor Award from Purdue School of Engineering.
Dr. Anasori has originated and organized multiple international student competitions, including NanoArtography and Science in Video (SciVid). He is currently the chair of the Materials Research Society (MRS) Early Career Professionals Subcommittee.