Professor Michael Toney
Professor Michael Toney has accepted the new faculty director position for shared facilities for material characterization and fabrication in the college. Toney will work to implement a shared vision for all of our facilities including a strategy for instrumentation acquisition, maintenance and upgrades. He is also tasked with developing best practices for staffing and financial support of shared facilities and collaborating with the Research & Innovation Office (RIO) and other campus units to formulate sustainable business models.
Professor Toney joined the College of Engineering and Applied Science within the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and the Materials Science and Engineering Program in 2020. His research group focuses on characterizing and understanding the physics and chemistry that underlie the functioning of materials for sustainable energy. Previously he served at Stanford University as an adjunct professor of materials science and engineering and as the head of the material sciences division of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource.