At the invitation of IMR, Prof. Rod Ruoff, Cockrell Family Regents Chair, the University of Texas at Austin, visited IMR on Sept.13-Sept.14, 2011, as a recipient of 2009 Lee Hsun Lecture Award. Prof. Rod Ruoff delivered a lecture entitled as: Graphene-based and Graphene-derived Materials. Before the lecture, Prof. Huiming Cheng, the Deputy Director of IMR, presented the plaque of Lee Hsun Lecture Award to Prof. Rod Ruoff. 

Prof. Rod Ruoff joined the University of Texas at Austin as a Cockrell Family Regents endowed chair in September, 2007. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from the University of Illinois-Urbana in 1988, and was a Fulbright Fellow in 1988-89 at the Max Planck Institute fuer Stroemungsforschung in Goettingen, Germany. Prior to joining UT-Austin, he was the John Evans Professor of Nanoengineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University and director of NU’s Biologically Inspired Materials Institute from 2002 to 2007. He has co-authored 260 peer-reviewed publications devoted to chemistry, physics, materials science, mechanics, engineering, and biomedical science, is co-founder of Graphene Energy, Inc. and the founder of Graphene Materials, LLC and Nanode, Inc. Dr. Ruoff is on the editorial board of IEEE-Nano; Composites, Science, and Technology; Carbon; Journal of Nanoengineering and Nanosystems; and is a Managing Editor and Editorial Board Member of NANO. He was a Distinguished Chair Visiting Professor at Sungkyukwan University’s Advanced Institute of NanoTechnology (SAINT) for several years.