Redesigning Materials Design

The Northwestern-led Center for Hierarchical Materials Design builds a revolution focused on how engineers worldwide create new materials.

About 30 years ago, after his daughter was born, Greg Olson moved from being a research scientist at MIT to becoming a faculty member at Northwestern Engineering’s Department of Materials Science. Fatherhood had inspired him to make the world a better place.

Learn more about how his work at the Center for Hierarchical Materials Design is fulfilling that dream here.