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Olivier Delaire

Associate Professor of the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
387 Gross Hall, Durham, NC 27708
144 Hudson Hall, Box 90300, Durham, NC 27708

Available to Mentor


  • Masters
  • PhD
  • Post-Doc
  • Undergraduate

Advising & Mentoring


Current and former postdoctoral trainees:

  • Jie Ma (2010-2012) now Assistant Professor at Shanghai Jiao-Tong University
  • Iyad Al-Qasir (2012-2013) now assistant prof. at University of Sharjah U.A.E.
  • Chen W Li (2012-2015) http://www.chenwli.com
  • Jiawang Hong (2013 - ) http://web.ornl.gov/~ho8/
  • Dipanshu Bansal (2015 - )
  • Jennifer Niedziela (2015 - )

Graduate Students supervised:

  • Chengtao Luo (Virginia Tech, 2014-present), lead-free ferroelectrics (NBT-BT)
  • Dipanshu Bansal (SUNY Buffalo, 2014-2015), phonon thermodynamics and transport

Undergraduate Students supervised:

  • Louis Varriano (University of Tennessee-Knoxville Physics undergraduate student and Haslam Scholar). HERE research program at ORNL, summer 2014.
  • Jorge Muñoz, Simpson Zhang (Caltech SURF, undergraduate summer students)