Roger French
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OrganizationCase Western Reserve University
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Biography
Roger H. French is the F. Alex Nason Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in the Case School of Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. He has secondary appointments in Macromolecular Science and Physics. He is the director of the Solar-Durability and Lifetime Extension (SDLE) center, a Wright Project center which focuses on lifetime and degradation science (L&DS) of long-lifetime environmentally exposed materials, components, and systems such as solar energy technologies and energy-efficient lighting, roofing, building exteriors, and more. He is developing Energy CRADLE, a Hadoop-based distributed computing environment for data science and analytics of complex systems. This allows multi-factor real world performance to be integrated with lab-based experimental datasets to identify mechanisms and pathways activated over lifetime. He is a member of the U. S. Department of Energy, Basic Energy Science Advisory Committee.
Using vacuum ultraviolet and optical spectroscopies, spectroscopic ellipsometry, and computational optics, his research is in optical properties, electronic structure, and radiation durability of optical materials, polymers, ceramics, and liquids. Optical properties determine the quantum electrodynamical interactions which lead to the van der Waals – London dispersion interactions which drive wetting of interfaces and nanoscale assembly in systems such as carbon nanotubes and biomolecular materials.