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Since he was young, Rigoberto “Gobet” Advincula has been intrigued with understanding how things work. “I was fortunate to go to a special science high school in the Philippines,” said Advincula, the UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair Professor of Advanced and Nanostructured Materials. He enjoyed learning the science behind the behavior of everyday objects, such as how…

From studying the cause of alligator illnesses to providing expertise in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill to monitoring campus wastewater for the Covid virus, Terry Hazen has always been fascinated by the ramification of stressed environments. Hazen was appointed as the UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair for Environmental Biotechnology when he came to UT…

Yilu Liu has dedicated her career to keeping America’s power on. Hired in 2009 as the UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair for Power Grids, Liu is an electrical engineer whose work focuses on developing new and better ways to monitor and understand the flow of electrical energy through the nation’s power grid. She is deputy director of…

Jeremy Smith’s research group was among the first to use high-performance computing (HPC) to search for drugs to fight the Covid virus—work that won a 2020 HPCWire prize for best supercomputing application to the life sciences. This computational work has led to experimentally verified drug candidates for dozens of diseases that are being developed. But…