Joshua M. Pearce received his Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University. He was the first Richard Witte Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering at the Michigan Tech University where he inaugurated and was the faculty advisor for the Michigan Tech Open Source Hardware Enterprise and ran the Open Sustainability Technology Research Group. He was a Fulbright-Aalto University Distinguished Chair and is a visiting professor of Photovoltaics and Nanoengineering at Aalto University.
He is currently the John M. Thompson Chair in Information Technology and Innovation at the Thompson Centre for Engineering Leadership & Innovation. He holds appointments at Ivey Business School and the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Western University in Canada. He runs the Free Appropriate Sustainability Technology research group. His research concentrates on the use of open source appropriate technology (OSAT) to find collaborative solutions to problems in sustainability and to reduce poverty using solar power and distributed manufacturing. He has an h-index of 65 and according to Elsevier’s citation metrics last year he was in the top 0.06% most cited scientists globally. He is the editor-in-chief of HardwareX, the first journal dedicated to open source scientific hardware and the author of the Open-Source Lab:How to Build Your Own Hardware and Reduce Research Costs and multiple others.
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