WALTER VOIT

walter.voit@utdallas.edu
Phone: 972-883-5788
Mail Box: ECW 31
Office: BSB 11.633
800 West Campbell Rd.
Richardson, TX 75080-3021

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
JOINT – MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

PhD, Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Tech, 2009.

MS, Computer Science – Intelligent Systems, University of Texas at Dallas, 2006.

BS, Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas, 2005.

Shape memory polymers; polymer manufacturing; ionizing radiation; thermomechanical properties; biopolymer mechanics.

Voit, W., T. Ware, and K. Gall. (2010). “Radiation crosslinked shape-memory polymers.” Polymer 51(15): 3551-3559.
Voit, W., T. Ware, R, Dasari, P. Smith, L. Danz, D. Simon, S. Barlow, S.R. Marder and K. Gall. (2010). “High-Strain Shape-Memory Polymers.” Advanced Functional Materials 20(1): 162-171.
Ware, T., W. Voit, and K. Gall (2010). “Effects of Sensitizer Length on Radiation Crosslinked Shape-Memory Polymers.” Radiation Physics and Chemistry 79(4): 446-453.
Chitturi, B., W. Fahle, Z. Meng, L. Morales, C.O. Shields, I.H. Sudborough, and W. Voit (2009). “An (18/11)n Upper Bound for Sorting by Prefix Reversals.” Theoretical Computer Science 410(36): 3372-3390.
Chitturi, B., Sudborough, H., Voit, W. and Fang, X. (2008) Adjacent Swaps on Strings. COCOON LNCS 5092: 299-308.

Best Presentation, 9th annual Ionizing Radiation and Polymers Conference, College Park, MD., 2010
McDermott Faculty Member, 2010
Best Poster Award, NSF IGERT PI Annual Meeting, Washington, DC., 2009
Member, Materials Research Society, 2008 – 2010
Member, TMS, 2008 – 2010
Founder and CTO of Syzygy Memory Plastics, 2007 – 2010
NSF IGERT-Funded TI:GER Fellow, The Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007 – 2009
Presidential Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006 – 2009
Erik Jonsson Fellow, University of Texas at Dallas, 2005 – 2006
McDermott Scholar, University of Texas at Dallas, 2001 – 2005