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Materials Research Support at the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Global

• 2011 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit

• November 28 - December 2, 2011
• Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA
• Meeting Chairs: Cammy R. Abernathy, Paul V. Braun, Masashi Kawasaki, Kathryn J. Wahl

Shawn Thorne, Associate Director - Office of Naval Research (ONR) Global Tokyo, Japan

Tuesday, November 29
6:45 - 7:30 pm
Sheraton Hotel, Back Bay C, 2nd Floor 

Shawn Thorne, Associate Director
Office of Naval Research (ONR) Global Tokyo, Japan

Dr. Shawn Thorne is the Associate Director for Functional Materials at the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Global office in London, United Kingdom.  He is responsible for developing connections between the US Naval Research Enterprise and outstanding international academic and commercial researchers in the field of Functional Materials and is the ONR lead for international engagement in the field of metamaterials.  In addition, Dr. Thorne is also responsible for ONR Global engagement of Europe in the field of Power and Energy.

Dr. Thorne specializes in a variety of materials-related fields, including nanotechnology and nanostructure synthesis, design and fabrication of electrodes for energy-related applications, corrosion science, and optical and thermal microscopy.  He has authored multiple journal articles, conference papers, and presentations and has been recognized by the University of California, Berkeley for his excellence in teaching.  Dr. Thorne has been an active member of the National Center of Electron Microscopy at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as well as the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory at the Stanford Linear Accelerator.  From 2008-2011, Dr. Thorne served as the Associate Director for Functional Materials in the ONR Global office in Tokyo.

Dr. Thorne graduated summa cum laude in 2003 from Boston University with a Bachelor of Arts in Physics and a minor in Economics.  He won numerous undergraduate research awards for his work in subsurface thermal imaging of silicon and GaAs processors and presented this work in numerous international conferences.  Dr. Thorne graduated with a Master’s and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from University of California, Berkeley in 2008.  His thesis work concentrated on relating the structure and properties of transition metal oxide nanowires grown using a novel electrochemical synthesis technique.  In particular, he emphasized the application of these nanostructures to electrodes for dye-sensitized solar cells and lithium-ion batteries.