Faculty/Researcher List

Hugh Bruck

Associate Professor
UMD - Faculty

Research

Processing, Materials, Combinatorial, Characterization

Processing and characterization of nanocomposites and nanostructured thin films

Received PhD in Materials Science from Caltech in 1995. Worked as a Post-doc at Idaho National Engineering Laboratories and a professor at the University of South Carolina before joining UMD as an Assistant Professor in 1998. Recipient of the ONR Young Investigator Award, Fulbright Scholar Award, and SEM A.J. Durelli Innovative Researcher Award. Serves as Associate Editor of EXPERIMENTAL MECHANICS and Research Committee Chair of the Society for Experimental Mechanics. Author or co-author on over 65 Technical publications cited over 450 times in the literature on materials processing and characterization involving Digital Image Correlation, Interferometry, Scanning Probe Microscopy, Bulk Metallic Glasses, Functionally Graded Materials, Energetic Materials, Smart Materials, and Combinatorial Materials Science.