Prof. Haixuan ‘Stephen’ Xu, has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Tennessee.

Stephen received his Ph.D. in the group in 2010, after which he postdoced at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

He has been received an NSF Career Awards and a DOE Early Career Award. He has also been honored with the UT MSE Faculty Escellence Award in Teaching and the FAculty Excellence Award in Research (Twice!).

Many congratulations to Dr. Xu.

He can be found at https://mse.utk.edu/people/haixuan-xu/