Lane W. Martin
American chemical engineer
Lane Wyatt Martin is an American materials scientist and engineer specializing in complex oxide thin films, their physics and properties, and applications of the same. He is best known for his work on ferroelectric and multiferroic thin films. Currently he is a Robert A. Welch Professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Chemistry, and Physics and Astronomy, and serves as the director of the Rice Advanced Materials Institute (RAMI) at Rice University.
Early life and education
Martin was born in Lincoln, Nebraska and grew up primarily in Indiana, Pennsylvania and graduated from Indiana Area Senior High School. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Materials Science and Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in December 2003 in just three-and-half years. He then pursued graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley, obtaining a Master of Science (M.S., May 2006) and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D., May 2008) in Materials Science and Engineering.
Career
Early Career
After completing his doctorate degree, Martin served as a postdoctoral fellow in the Quantum Materials Program at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 2008 to 2009. He began his academic career as an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. As an assistant professor of materials science and engineering, Martin received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his proposal, "Enhanced Pyroelectric and Electrocaloric Effects in Complex Oxide Thin Film Heterostructures." He also helped devise a method to make thin films of ferroelectric material with twice the strain of traditional methods, giving the films exceptional electric properties. In 2013, Martin was nominated for a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers by the United States Department of Defense "for his research accomplishments in the synthesis and study of multifunctional materials that have enabled the development and understanding of fundamentally new materials phenomena and potential for advanced devices."
UC Berkeley
In 2014, Martin returned to the University of California, Berkeley as an associate professor, was promoted to professor in July 2018, and served as vice chair and associate chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering from 2018 to 2021.
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