Dr. Edgar Lara-Curzio
Distinguished Scientist,
Director of Energy Resources Programs
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Edgar Lara-Curzio is a Distinguished Scientist in the Energy Science & Technology Directorate. He currently directs ORNL’s Energy Resources Programs.
He received a B.Sc. degree in Engineering Physics from the Autonomous Metropolitan University (1986) and a Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1992).
Lara-Curzio has authored or co-authored more than 280 papers and 12 U.S. patents. His area of expertise is the development and characterization of functional and structural materials and components for power generation, and for the conversion, transmission, storage and utilization of energy.
Lara-Curzio served as member of the Board of Directors of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS) between 2013 and 2016, and is a member of the External Advisory Board for the Institute for Materials at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a member of the Advisory Board of the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. Lara-Curzio is a Fellow of both ACerS and ASTM and a member of Alpha Sigma Mu the International Metallurgical Honorary Society.