Braun Group People
Professor Paul V. Braun
Email: pbraun@illinois.edu
Phone: 217-244-7293
Fax: 217-333-2736
Materials Science and Engineering
204A MSEB, MC-246
1304 W. Green Street
Urbana, IL 61801
Beckman Institute
3357 BI, MC-251
405 N. Mathews Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801
Paul V. Braun is the Ivan Racheff Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and an affiliate of the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, the Beckman Institute forAdvanced Science and Technology, the Department of Chemistry, the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory and the Mechanical Science and Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Prof. Braun’s research focuses on the synthesis and properties of 3D architectures with a focus on materials with unique optical, electrochemical, thermal, and mechanical properties. Prof. Braun received his B.S. degree with distinction from Cornell University in 1993, and his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Illinois in 1998. Following a postdoctoral appointment at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, he joined the faculty at Illinois in 1999. Prof. Braun has co-authored a book, authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications, and has been awarded multiple patents. He is the recipient of the Young Alumnus Award (2011), the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award (2010), the Stanley H. Pierce Faculty Award (2010), Beckman Young Investigator Award (2001), a 3M Nontenured Faculty Award, the 2002 Robert Lansing Hardy Award from TMS, the Xerox Award for Faculty Research (2004, 2009), and multiple teaching awards. In 2006, he was named a University Scholar by the University of Illinois , and in 2011 was named the Ivan Racheff Professor of Materials Science and Engineering.