Pierre A. Deymier

Pierre Deymier received the Ph.D. degree in ceramics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in July 1985. He is currently the Head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Director of the School of Sustainable Engineered Systems, University of Arizona, Tucson. He was the Associate Head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering from 2001 to 2010, and is on the faculty of the BIO5 Institute, Applied Mathematics Graduate Interdisciplinary Program, and the Biomedical Engineering Program. He has published more than 150 scientific papers and has presented at numerous technical meetings. His current research interests include the application of theory, modeling, and simulation to solving important problems in the science, engineering, and technology of materials. These areas of research include materials whose function derives from their size, such as nanomaterials, or structure, such as metamaterials, and materials with biological functionality or made of living matter, such as vitamaterials.