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Dr. Justin Schwartz

Dr. Justin Schwartz

Executive Vice President and Provost, The Pennsylvania State University

Justin Schwartz is the Executive Vice President and Provost at The Pennsylvania State University. As the University’s chief academic officer, Dr. Schwartz oversees all academic units and major academic support units. He’s also accredited for his previous role as the Harold and Inge Marcus Dean in the College of Engineering at Penn State to which he served August 2017 through August 2022.

He received a B.S. with highest honors from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After serving as one of the first Science and Technology Agency of Japan Fellows at the National Research Institute for Metals, Japan, he joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an assistant professor.

In 1993, he joined the newly formed National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Florida State University, where he served as the leader of the HTS Magnets and Materials Group.

In 2009, Dr. Schwartz joined North Carolina State University as the Kobe Steel Distinguished Professor and Head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.

In August of 2017, he began his tenure as the Harold and Inge Marcus Dean of Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. His research interests are primarily in superconducting materials and systems for energy, defense and medical applications. Dr. Schwartz has published over 250 peer-reviewed journal articles and has graduated 45 Ph.D. and M.S. students in six academic disciplines.

He is a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and ASM International.

 

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