David Keffer

Professor & Associate Department Head, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UT Knoxville

Dr. David Keffer earned a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Florida and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota. After a year as a post-doctoral scholar at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., he began his career as an engineering professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where he remains today, leading a computational research group interested in materials relevant to the pursuit of sustainable energy. He has published about 120 technical papers in archival journals. He was awarded a Fulbright Grant and spent a year (2010-11) at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea. His research interests focus on the intersection of computational materials science and sustainability.