Engineers and materials scientists

Jean‐Marie Tarascon

Jean-Marie Tarascon, born in 1953 in Marmande, is a French solid-state chemist who developed the first plastic rechargeable lithium-ion battery and sodium-ion batteries, winning the 2022 CNRS Gold Medal.

Jean‐Philippe Croué

Jean-Philippe Croué (born 1960) is a French water chemist, professor of environmental engineering at the University of Poitiers, known for research on disinfection by-products, membrane fouling, and advanced oxidation processes.

Jeehwan Kim

Jeehwan Kim is a South Korean-born materials scientist and tenured associate professor at MIT, known for remote epitaxy, graphene-based layer transfer, and monolithic 3D chip integration.

Jeff Dahn

Jeff Dahn is a Canadian battery scientist at Dalhousie University in Halifax, a pioneering developer of the lithium-ion battery who has held Tesla's only university research chair since 2016.

Jefferson W. Tester

Jefferson W. Tester is an American chemical engineer, professor of sustainable energy systems at Cornell University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021 for renewable energy systems.

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell is an American biomaterials scientist and immunoengineer known for inverse vaccines that use the liver's tolerance pathway to halt autoimmune reactions in laboratory models.

Jeffrey C. Grossman

Jeffrey C. Grossman is an American materials scientist and MIT professor since 2009 whose research uses computer simulation to design energy materials, including solar thermal fuels.

Jeffrey D. Hartgerink

Jeffrey D. Hartgerink is an American chemist and materials scientist, Professor of Chemistry and Bioengineering at Rice University, known for multidomain peptide hydrogels for tissue repair.

Jeffrey J. Siirola

Jeffrey J. Siirola is an American chemical engineer known for process synthesis and computer-aided process design, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1994.

Jeffrey Karp

Jeffrey Karp, also known as Jeffrey M. Karp, is a Canadian-born American bioengineer known for a gecko-inspired surgical tape and for turning his lab's inventions into medtech companies.

Jeffrey L. Blackburn

Jeffrey L. Blackburn, known as Jeff Blackburn, is an American materials scientist at the National Laboratory of the Rockies in Golden, Colorado, known for single-walled carbon nanotube research.

Jeffrey R. Capadona

Jeffrey R. Capadona is an American biomedical engineer at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland VA, known for biomaterials research on neural implants and drug delivery.

Jeffrey W. Kysar

Jeffrey W. Kysar is an American mechanical engineer at Columbia University who has chaired its mechanical engineering department since 2014 and won a 2006 Presidential Early Career Award.

Jeffrey Wadsworth

Jeffrey Wadsworth is an English-born American metallurgist known for research on superplasticity, high-temperature materials, and Damascus steels, who directed Oak Ridge National Laboratory from 2003.

Jennifer A. Lewis

Jennifer A. Lewis, also known as Jennifer Lewis, is an American materials scientist and bioengineer at Harvard known for 3D printing of functional and biological materials.

Jennifer Carter

Jennifer Carter is an American materials scientist and associate professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, who received the 2016 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Jennifer Elisseeff

Jennifer H. Elisseeff is an American biomedical engineer at Johns Hopkins University who directs its Translational Tissue Engineering Center and is known for injectable biomaterial scaffolds and regenerative immunology.

Jennifer G. Becker

Jennifer G. Becker is an American environmental engineer and microbiologist known for bioremediation of chlorinated solvents in groundwater, honored with a 2002 Presidential Early Career Award.

Jennifer L. M. Rupp

Jennifer L. M. Rupp is a German materials scientist known for solid-state battery electrolytes and memristive oxides, a full professor at TU Munich since 2023.

Jennifer Lee Clancy

Jennifer Lee Clancy is an environmental microbiologist known for detecting Cryptosporidium and Giardia parasites in drinking- and wastewater, and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.

Jennifer West

Jennifer L. West is an American biomaterials researcher, dean of the University of Virginia School of Engineering since 2021, known for hydrogels and gold nanoshell cancer therapy.

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Jennifer Wilcox

Jennifer Wilcox is an American chemical engineer known for research on carbon capture and direct air capture, and a US Department of Energy official from 2021 to 2024.

Jenny Nelson

Jenny Nelson is a Professor of Physics at Imperial College London, known for research on photovoltaic materials and for her textbook The Physics of Solar Cells.

Jens Rasmussen (safety scientist)

Jens Rasmussen (1926–2018) was a Danish human-factors and safety scientist at Risø National Laboratory, known for the skills-rules-knowledge taxonomy and the AcciMap accident-analysis method.

Jeong Ho Cho

Jeong Ho Cho (조정호) is a South Korean professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Yonsei University, known for printable ion-gel dielectrics and wafer-scale printed MoS2 transistor arrays.

Jeong Sook Ha

Jeong Sook Ha is a South Korean chemical and biological engineer, a professor at Korea University in Seoul known for stretchable micro-supercapacitors and wearable energy-storage devices.

Jeong‐Yun Sun

Jeong-Yun Sun (선정윤) is a South Korean materials scientist and professor at Seoul National University known for papers on tough hydrogels and stretchable, transparent ionic conductors.

Jerald L. Schnoor

Jerald L. "Jerry" Schnoor is an American environmental engineer at the University of Iowa, widely described as a founding father of phytoremediation, the use of plants to clean contaminated environments.

Jeremy Isenberg

Jeremy Isenberg is an American civil engineer known for computational modeling of structures under blast and earthquake loading, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1999.