{"id":8166,"date":"2016-04-01T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T13:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/materials\/?p=8166"},"modified":"2016-04-01T09:00:22","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T13:00:22","slug":"qa-nicholas-gianaris","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/materials\/news\/qa-nicholas-gianaris\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&A: Nicholas Gianaris"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nicholas Gianaris<\/p><\/div>\n

Nicholas Gianaris earned his MSE in 1992 and PhD in 1996. While at Johns Hopkins, he worked in the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation, which was directed by his advisor Professor Robert E. Green, Jr. Today, Gianaris is the VP of Business Development and General Manager of the Materials Technology Division at Thermacore<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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How did you get interested in materials science?<\/strong><\/p>\n

This goes back to when I was a high school senior given the privilege to participate in the Westinghouse Science Honors Institute. One of the lecturers was in the field. I had further opportunity to learn about and major in the field during my undergraduate days at Carnegie Mellon U., and continue to pursue my interest at Hopkins.<\/p>\n

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What kind of research did you do at Johns Hopkins? Were there any moments in the lab or in class that stood out to you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

My research was focused on nondestructive evaluation of composite materials, and I was Dr. Green\u2019s first student to perform work in this area. He had just received funding from the DARPA thick composites program, and I was working between my BS and PhD at Northrop (now Northrop Grumman) doing exactly this type of work. So it was a natural fit.<\/p>\n

I also had interactions with several faculty and would perform side research projects. Some of my best memories were Dr. Cammarata<\/a>, Dr. Jim Wagner (president at Emory U.) and Dr. Jim Spicer<\/a> (one of Jim\u2019s grad students at the time). I also really enjoyed working with Walt and Mike at the Maryland Hall Machine Shop because it allowed for some hands on creative yet practical thinking on how to conduct some of my experiments.<\/p>\n

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How did you get from our PhD program to Thermacore?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thermacore is now my opportunity to grow a materials technology company using the knowledge I have gained in the last 20 years since earning my PhD.<\/p>\n

I have been a believer of a balanced \u201cT,\u201d being a good generalist (top of the T) and being an expert in some areas (bottom of the T). I had the opportunity to earn my PhD on a cooperative basis with Boeing where I was able to perform some innovative work on statistical methods for small batch materials and processes. As we enter into the realm of ICME, I see a lot of the work I performed at the time becoming more interesting as we see technologies such as additive manufacturing evolving. My work at Hopkins basically kept evolving with roles in industry and academe since I also am a believer in being strongly involved in both industry and academe.<\/p>\n

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Thermacore specializes in thermal technologies. <\/strong>What makes \u201cpassive thermal management systems\u201d important to so many areas (military, aerospace, computers, etc.)?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We specialize in high temperature applications (2000C+) so this demands materials and systems solutions that are not the same as at room temperature. This means using high-rate thermal transfer solutions such as heat pipes and graphite in a system where heat is not desired. This also means designing and using materials that can perform at higher temperatures such as refractory alloys and composites. We forget how materials are nonlinear and multifunctional, yet this is very important when designing armor and hypersonic solutions. 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