Jamie Warner

Jamie H. Warner is the Hayden Head Centennial Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin's Walker Department within the Cockrell School of Engineering and Director of the Texas Materials Institute since July 2022. He joined UT Austin in January 2020 to lead the new Electron Microscopy Facility in the Engineering Education and Research Center, equipped with the world’s most advanced direct electron detectors for atomic-scale materials characterization. Previously, Warner spent 13 years at the University of Oxford’s Department of Materials from 2006 to 2020, progressing from research fellowships to Full Professor in 2014, leading the Nanostructured Materials Group, and graduating 30 PhD students. Following his PhD in Physics from the University of Queensland in 2004, he conducted 18 months of postdoctoral research in New Zealand and Australia. His distinguished career includes the Glasstone Fellowship in Science (2008), Royal Society University Research Fellowship (2010), and ERC Consolidator Grant on Large Area Transparent Opto-Electronics (2017), along with visiting professorships at MIT (2014 and 2016) and Sungkyunkwan University (2014-2018).

Warner’s research centers on nanostructured materials for electronic, opto-electronic, and energy applications, utilizing aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopy and spectroscopy to investigate atomic-level structures and dynamics, complemented by tools such as SEM, AFM, and FIB. Focus areas encompass 2D crystals (graphene, BN, MoS2, WS2), 1D nanotubes, 0D quantum dots, and energy storage materials like batteries, including in-situ electrochemistry studies. He has produced over 325 peer-reviewed publications—170 as corresponding author—in leading journals including Science, Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications (x3), Nano Letters (x16), Advanced Materials (x4), and ACS Nano (x60+), achieving an h-index of 69 and more than 18,500 citations. Key works include “Atomic Structure and Defect Dynamics of Monolayer Lead Iodide Nanodisks with Epitaxial Alignment on Graphene” (Nature Communications, 2020), “Controlling Defects in Continuous 2D GaS Films for High Performance Wavelength-Tunable UV-Discriminating Photodetectors” (Advanced Materials, 2020), “Spatially Controlled Fabrication and Mechanisms of Atomically Thin Nanowell Patterns in Bilayer WS2” (ACS Nano, 2019), and “Atomic Electrostatic Maps of 1D Channels in 2D Semiconductors using 4D Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy” (Nature Communications, 2019). Notable honors comprise the ACS Nano Lectureship (2019) and Fellowship of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2019). Warner’s leadership elevates UT Austin’s prominence in clean-energy storage, water purification, and quantum technologies.

Professional Email: jamie.warner@austin.utexas.edu