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Erin L. Ratcliff

Professor

School of Materials Science and Engineering School of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Erin L. Ratcliff is a Full Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering and the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Georgia Tech and holds a joint appointment at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. After completing a postdoc at the University of Arizona, she served as a Research Scientist and Research Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. She was previously an Assistant and Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of Arizona.

Her group “Laboratory for Interface Science for Printable Electronic Materials” works on both fundamentals and devices for energy conversion and storage and sensing, including solar cells, transistors, photoelectrodes, transistors, capacitors, and batteries. The group is predominantly experimental and uses a combination of electrochemistry, spectroscopies, microscopies, and synchrotron-based techniques to understand structure-property relationships across time and length scales, with an emphasis on charge transport and charge transfer. Materials of interest include metal halide perovskites, π-conjugated materials, colloidal quantum dots, and metal oxides. Current research and funding includes semiconductor/electrolyte interfaces and durability of printable electronic materials from multiple federal agencies. Such an interdisciplinary group welcomes students and postdocs with training in materials science, chemical engineering, chemistry, and physics, among others.

2024 – Senior Summer Faculty Research Fellow at the Naval Research Laboratory
2023 – Da Vinci Fellow
2021 – Senior Summer Faculty Research Fellow at the Naval Research Laboratory
2020 – Senior Summer Faculty Research Fellow at the Naval Research Laboratory
2019 – Ten at Ten People of Energy Frontier Research Centers (DOE BES)
2022 – College of Engineering Researcher of the Year, University of Arizona

Department of Energy Basic Energy Sciences
Solar Energy Technology Office
Office of Naval Research
National Science Foundation
Nano Bio Materials Consortium

People

Erin L. Ratcliff

Professor
School of Materials Science and Engineering School of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Degrees

PhD in Physical Chemistry, Iowa State University BA in Chemistry, Mathematics, and Statistics, St. Olaf College

Honors & Awards

2024 – Senior Summer Faculty Research Fellow at the Naval Research Laboratory
2023 – Da Vinci Fellow
2021 – Senior Summer Faculty Research Fellow at the Naval Research Laboratory
2020 – Senior Summer Faculty Research Fellow at the Naval Research Laboratory
2019 – Ten at Ten People of Energy Frontier Research Centers (DOE BES)
2022 – College of Engineering Researcher of the Year, University of Arizona

Department of Energy Basic Energy Sciences
Solar Energy Technology Office
Office of Naval Research
National Science Foundation
Nano Bio Materials Consortium

Bio

Erin L. Ratcliff is a Full Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering and the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Georgia Tech and holds a joint appointment at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. After completing a postdoc at the University of Arizona, she served as a Research Scientist and Research Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. She was previously an Assistant and Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of Arizona.

Her group “Laboratory for Interface Science for Printable Electronic Materials” works on both fundamentals and devices for energy conversion and storage and sensing, including solar cells, transistors, photoelectrodes, transistors, capacitors, and batteries. The group is predominantly experimental and uses a combination of electrochemistry, spectroscopies, microscopies, and synchrotron-based techniques to understand structure-property relationships across time and length scales, with an emphasis on charge transport and charge transfer. Materials of interest include metal halide perovskites, π-conjugated materials, colloidal quantum dots, and metal oxides. Current research and funding includes semiconductor/electrolyte interfaces and durability of printable electronic materials from multiple federal agencies. Such an interdisciplinary group welcomes students and postdocs with training in materials science, chemical engineering, chemistry, and physics, among others.

Erin L. Ratcliff

Professor
School of Materials Science and Engineering School of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Degrees

PhD in Physical Chemistry, Iowa State University BA in Chemistry, Mathematics, and Statistics, St. Olaf College

Honors & Awards

2024 – Senior Summer Faculty Research Fellow at the Naval Research Laboratory
2023 – Da Vinci Fellow
2021 – Senior Summer Faculty Research Fellow at the Naval Research Laboratory
2020 – Senior Summer Faculty Research Fellow at the Naval Research Laboratory
2019 – Ten at Ten People of Energy Frontier Research Centers (DOE BES)
2022 – College of Engineering Researcher of the Year, University of Arizona

Department of Energy Basic Energy Sciences
Solar Energy Technology Office
Office of Naval Research
National Science Foundation
Nano Bio Materials Consortium

Bio

Erin L. Ratcliff is a Full Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering and the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Georgia Tech and holds a joint appointment at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. After completing a postdoc at the University of Arizona, she served as a Research Scientist and Research Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. She was previously an Assistant and Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of Arizona.

Her group “Laboratory for Interface Science for Printable Electronic Materials” works on both fundamentals and devices for energy conversion and storage and sensing, including solar cells, transistors, photoelectrodes, transistors, capacitors, and batteries. The group is predominantly experimental and uses a combination of electrochemistry, spectroscopies, microscopies, and synchrotron-based techniques to understand structure-property relationships across time and length scales, with an emphasis on charge transport and charge transfer. Materials of interest include metal halide perovskites, π-conjugated materials, colloidal quantum dots, and metal oxides. Current research and funding includes semiconductor/electrolyte interfaces and durability of printable electronic materials from multiple federal agencies. Such an interdisciplinary group welcomes students and postdocs with training in materials science, chemical engineering, chemistry, and physics, among others.