Meisha Shofner
Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering

Meisha L. Shofner is a professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, joining the faculty following post-doctoral training at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and her Ph.D. in Materials Science from Rice University. Prior to beginning graduate school, she was employed as a design engineer at FMC in the Subsea Engineering Division, working at two plant locations (Houston, Texas and the Republic of Singapore), and she is a registered Professional Engineer in Georgia.

Shofner’s research area is processing-structure-property relationships of polymers and composites. Specifically, she designs processing strategies to attain hierarchical structures in these materials to improve properties and has discovered scalable processing methods to produce auxetic structures and tensegrity-inspired structures. Additionally, she works with bioderived materials to produce composites with reduced environmental impact.  

meisha.shofner@mse.gatech.edu
Phone
404.385.7216
Office
MRDC 4409
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > School of Materials Science Engineering
Additional Research
Biomolecular-Solids; Biomaterials; Composites; Polymers; Nanomaterials; Biofuels; Structure-property relationships in polymer nanocomposite materials; producing structural hierarchy in these materials for structural and functional applications.
IRI And Role
Manufacturing > Affiliated Faculty
Data Engineering and Science > Affiliated Faculty
Renewable Bioproducts > Faculty
Energy > Research Community
Matter and Systems > Affiliated Faculty
Manufacturing
Data Engineering and Science
Renewable Bioproducts
Energy