Paul Salvador
Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Director, Energy, Science, Technology and Policy Program
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.
Education
1997 Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
1992 Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests
- advanced materials processing and manufacturing
- applied physics
- catalysis
- ceramics
- chemical physics
- climate resilience and environmental impact
- coatings & films
- complex oxides
- electrochemistry
- electronic materials
- energy
- energy and community involvement
- energy production
- energy systems
- EVs and mobility
- grid and energy infrastructure
- grid-interactive, high-performance, and electrified buildings
- magnetics
- materials computation and informatics
- materials for information technology
- materials science & engineering
- microstructural science
- nanomaterials
- nanoparticles
- public policy and regulation
- pulsed laser ablation
- solid state chemistry
- surface science
- sustainable energy production, conservation, and storage
- thin film crystal growth
Media mentions
Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation
Seed grant spotlight: Upgrading direct air capture
Thanks to support from a Scott Institute seed grant, Salvador and Islam hope to resolve a key issue with current DAC technologies: They don’t capture enough greenhouse gas emissions to justify the steep cost.
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
Scott Institute seed grants advance clean energy research at Carnegie Mellon University
ince the Scott Institute’s founding in 2012, a core initiative has been the Seed Grants for Energy Research program. With this funding, researchers across the university receive important early-stage support for developing cutting-edge energy research.
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.