One of the leading solid state chemists in the world is joining the department of chemistry at Oregon State University as the Milton Harris professor of materials science.

Mas Subramanian, an internationally recognized expert on inorganic solid state materials, will also be the first signature faculty fellow in the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute, a collaborative effort involving OSU, other Oregon universities, government agencies and private industry.

An expert in such fields as high-temperature superconductivity, thermoelectrics, magnetoresistive materials and solid state, fast-ion conductors, Subramanian is a world leader in the discovery and development of new materials.

Subramanian received his doctorate from the Indian Institute of Technology in 1982. He is an editor of Solid State Sciences and Progress in Solid State Chemistry.

David C. Johnson, a professor of chemistry at the University of Oregon and an ONAMI leader, said that Subramanian’s move to the state could help “make Oregon the best place in the world to study materials chemistry.”