{"id":1280,"date":"2021-06-30T14:16:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T18:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/materials\/faculty\/kenneth-livi\/"},"modified":"2025-04-04T14:13:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T18:13:23","slug":"kenneth-livi","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/materials\/faculty\/kenneth-livi\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenneth Livi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kenneth Livi is an associate research scientist in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and director of facilities for the <a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/MCP\/\">Materials Characterization and Processing Facility<\/a>. 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