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Paul A. Salvador is a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at Carnegie Mellon University. Salvador received his B.S.E. in MSE from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992 and his Ph.D. in MSE from Northwestern University in 1997. After spending two years as a postdoctoral researcher and Chateaubriand Fellow at the École nationale supérieure d'ingénieurs de Caen (ENSI-Caen), working at the Laboratoire de Cristallographie et Science des Matériaux (CRISMAT), he joined the faculty at Carnegie Mellon as an assistant professor in 1999. He was promoted to an associate professor in 2004 and to a professor in 2008. He spent two months in 2011 as an Invited Professor at Université de Caen Basse-Normandie. Salvador's group is currently working on materials and heterostructures for advanced energy, data storage, and communications technologies, as well as on the development of new materials using thin film methods.

Office
5105 Scott Hall
Phone
412.268.2702
Email
paulsalvador@cmu.edu
Assistant
Kelly Rockenstein
Google Scholar
Paul Salvador
Websites
Salvador Research Group

Education

1997 Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University

1992 Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania

Media mentions


Carnegie Mellon University

Seven Engineering faculty awarded grants from Scott Institute

Seven faculty from the College of Engineering received project funding from this year’s Scott Institute Seed Grants.

Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation

Three MSE faculty win Scott Institute grants

Three MSE faculty—Paul Salvador, Mohammad Islam, and Mohadeseh Taheri-Mousavi—were awarded funding by the Scott Institute for Energy Innovation to support cutting-edge research in sustainable energy solutions.

The American Ceramic Society

Salvador announced 2021 ACerS fellow

MSE’s Paul Salvador has been announced one of seventeen individuals joining the 2021 Class of Fellows at ACerS.

Carnegie Mellon University Africa

EST&P project course responds to Africa’s energy access challenges

This past spring semester, about a dozen master’s students in Carnegie Mellon University’s Energy Science, Technology and Policy (EST&P) Project Course worked hands-on with batteries to potentially identify re-use applications that could improve Africa’s energy access problem.