Education

• Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering
• The University of Texas at Austin
• 2011

• M.S. , Mechanical Engineering
• The University of Texas at Austin
• 2007

• B.S. , Mechanical Engineering
• Duke University
• 2001

Positions

• 7/2018 - Present | Scientist-3, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, Materials Physics and Applications Division Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies

Awards

• Invited Participant (Young Leaders Program), 16th Annual Science and Technology in Science Forum (STSforum), October 6-8, 2019, Kyoto, Japan
• Invited Participant, National Academy of Engineering EU-US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (NAE EU-US FOE), November 18-20, 2019, Stockholm, Sweden
• Department of Energy Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program Early Career Research Program Award, Los Alamos National Laboratory 2019
• Mechanical Engineering Early Career Faculty Scholar Award, U. Connecticut 2017
• Ronald E. McNair Program Faculty Mentor Award, U. Connecticut 2017
• Invited Participant, National Academy of Engineering 8th Annual Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium (NAE FOEE), September 25-28, 2016, Irvine, CA
• National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER) Awardee 2016
• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) Fellow 2006
• Donald D. Harrington Graduate Doctoral Fellow, most prestigious honor at U. Texas, only 11 awards made university-wide 2005
• Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal for personal actions during Operation Iraqi Freedom II-1 and Operation Vigilant Resolve 2004

Professional Societies

• American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• Materials Research Society

Publications

• Sajad Yazdani, Tran Doan Huan, Yufei Liu, Raana Kashfi-Sadabad, Raul D. Montaño, Jian He, and Michael T. Pettes*, "Highly charged interface trap states in PbS1–x govern electro-thermal transport," APL Materials 7(xx), xxxxxx (2019). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5096786, LA-UR-18-31330
• Wei Wu, C. Kavir Dass, Joshua R. Hendrickson, Raul D. Montaño, Robert E. Fischer, Xiaotian Zhang, Tanushree H. Choudhury, Joan M. Redwing, Yongqiang Wang, and Michael T. Pettes*, "Locally defined quantum emission from epitaxial few-layer tungsten diselenide," Applied Physics Letters 114(21), 213102 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5091779, LA-UR-18-27142
• Featured as LANL Science Highlight (May 29, 2019): https://www.lanl.gov/discover/news-release-archive/2019/May/0529-quantum-information.php
• Sajad Yazdani#, Hyun-Young Kim#, and Michael T. Pettes*, "A high temperature instrument for consecutive measurements of thermal conductivity, electrical conductivity, and Seebeck coefficient," Journal of Heat Transfer–Transactions of the ASME 141(7), 071602 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4043572, #equal contribution, LA-UR-18-27670
• Wei Wu, M. Daniela Morales-Acosta, Yongqiang Wang, and Michael T. Pettes*, "Isotope effect in bilayer WSe2," Nano Letters 19(3), 1527–1533 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b04269, LA-UR-18-29405.
• Featured in MRS Bulletin (May 24, 2019)
• Featured as LANL Science Highlight (April 8, 2019)
• Jose A. Hernández-Pérez, Angel Ruiz-Reyes, Luis F. Fonseca*, Michael T. Pettes, Miguel J. Yacamán, and Alfredo Benitez, "Thermoelectric properties of SnSe nanowires with different diameters," Scientific Reports 8, 11966 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-30450-5
• Sajad Yazdani and Michael T. Pettes*, "Nanoscale self-assembly of thermoelectric materials: A review of chemistry-based approaches," Nanotechnology 29(43), 432001 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6528/aad673, LA-UR-18-27145
• Raana Kashfi-Sabadad#, Sajad Yazdani#, Tran Doan Huan, Zhao Cai, and Michael T. Pettes*, "Role of oxygen vacancy defects in the electrocatalytic activity of substoichiometric molybdenum oxide," The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 122(32), 18212–18222 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b03536, #equal contribution, LA-UR-18-27143
• Sajad Yazdani, Hyun-Young Kim, Michael T. Pettes*, "Uncertainty analysis of axial temperature and Seebeck measurements," Review of Scientific Instruments 89(8), 084903 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5023909, LA-UR-18-27141
• Jose A. Hernández-Pérez, Jennifer Carpena-Núñez, Luis F. Fonseca*, Michael T. Pettes, Miguel J. Yacamán, and Alfredo Benitez, "Thermoelectric properties and thermal tolerance of indium tin oxide nanowires," Nanotechnology 29(36), 364001 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6528/aaccd3
• Alessandro Palmieri, Raana Kashfi-Sabadad, Sajad Yazdani, Stavros G. Karakalos, Benjamin Ng, Alexandra Oliveira, Michael T. Pettes, and William E. Mustain*, "A strategy to dramatically improve capacity retention of metal oxide anodes in Li-ion batteries: Increasing intra-particle electronic conductivity through Na inclusion in Mn3O4," ChemElectroChem 5(15), 2059–2063 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1002/celc.201800358
• Sajad Yazdani#, Raana Kashfi-Sabadad#, Tran Doan Huan, Mayra Daniela Morales-Acosta, and Michael T. Pettes*, "Polyelectrolyte-assisted oxygen vacancies: A new route to defect engineering in molybdenum oxide," Langmuir 34(21), 6296–6306 (2018). http://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b00539, #equal contribution

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