Taylor Sparks

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Dr. Sparks is a Professor of Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Utah. He is originally from Utah and is an alumni of the department he now teaches in. He holds a BS in MSE from the University of Utah, MS in Materials from UCSB, and PhD in Applied Physics from Harvard University (advisor David Clarke). He was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Materials Research Laboratory at UCSB (advisor Ram Seshadri). He is a former Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellow at the University of Liverpool and a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award. He was a speaker for TEDxSaltLakeCity and is active in MRS, TMS, and ACERS societies. He serves as an Associate Editor for the journals Computational Materials Science and Data in Brief. When he’s not in the lab you can find him running his podcast “Materialism,” creating materials educational content for his YouTube channel, or canyoneering with his 4 kids in southern Utah.