Amit Goyal

Amit Goyal is a UT-Battelle Corporate Fellow, a Battelle Distinguished Inventor and an ORNL Distinguished Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratories in Tennessee. He is also the Chair of the UT-Battelle-ORNL Corporate Fellow Council. He is one of the leading scientists world-wide in the field of advanced electronic and energy materials including High Temperature Superconductors. He has over 80 issued patents. He also has over 350 publications. A recent analysis of citations and papers published world-wide in the last decade in the field of high-temperature superconductivity, between 1999–2009, conducted by Thomson Reuters Essential Science Indicators (ESI), ranks him as the most cited author worldwide.

Education

He did his schooling at Mayo College, in Rajasthan, India. He received the degree of Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech) Honors degree in Metallurgical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1986. He completed his M.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of Rochester in 1988. He completed his Ph.D. in Material Science and Engineering from the same institute in 1991. He has an Executive MBA from the Krannert Business School at Purdue University, an executive International MBA from Tilburg University, The Netherlands and Executive business training from the MIT Sloan School of Management.