Josh Kacher

Josh Kacher
Associate Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering

Josh Kacher joined Georgia Tech’s Materials Science and Engineering department as an assistant professor in Fall of 2015. Prior to his appointment, he was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. There, he worked in collaboration with General Motors to understand the Portevin-le Chatelier effect in Al-Mg and with the navy to develop novel rhenium-replacement alloys. His research approach centered on applying in situ TEM deformation to understand the influence of local chemistry on the behavior of defects such as dislocations and twins. This was coupled with mesoscale characterization of the defect state using EBSD for multiscale characterization of the deformation processes.

His Ph.D. and Masters work similarly focused on applying multiscale electron microscopy techniques to understanding defect behavior in a variety of systems such as ion-irradiated stainless steels, materials at elevated temperatures, and Mg alloys for light-weight alloy development.

Phone
404.894.2781
Office
Love 282
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology
  • College of Engineering
  • School of Materials Science Engineering
Additional Research
Materials In Extreme Environments; corrosion; deformation and degradation; Advanced Characterization; micro and nanomechanics; fracture and fatigue
Interdisciplinary Research Institutes
Matter and Systems