Prof. Dr. Jagdish Narayan

Professor Jagdish (Jay) Narayan is the John C. Fan Family Distinguished Chair in the Materials Science and Engineering Department of North Carolina State University. He received his B. Tech (Dist) from IIT, Kanpur in 1969 and MS (1970) and PhD (1971) from UC Berkeley in a record time of two years. He is internationally known for his pioneering contributions in laser annealing and pulsed laser deposition, defects and interfaces, domain matching epitaxy for novel thin film heterostructures across the misfit scale, and creation of new materials with unique properties. Narayan’s most recent research pertains to the discovery of Q-carbon and Q-BN and the direct conversion of carbon into diamond and h-BN into c-BN at ambient temperatures and pressures in air. He has published over 500 archival journal papers, 48 US Patents and 9 edited books, which have over 35,000 citations. He has graduated over 87 PhD students and trained an equal number of postdocs. He has received the highest honors from the State of North Carolina (North Carolina Science Award), UNC System (O. Max Gardener Award), and North Carolina State University (Holladay Medal). His other honors include NAE, NAI and NAS-I, ASM Gold Medal, Acta Materialia Gold Medal, TMS RF Mehl Gold Medal; and Fellow MRS (Inaugural), APS, AAAS, TMS, and ASM.