Division Chairs

Thin Film

Mark D. Losego


Georgia Tech
E-mail: mark_losego @ avs.org

MARK D. LOSEGO is an Associate Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering and the College of Engineering’s Education Innovation Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). The Losego Lab focuses on materials processing and develops novel organic-inorganic hybrid materials systems for sustainable energy, national security, and technical textile applications.  The Losego Lab combines a unique set of solution and vapor phase processing methods to convert organic polymers into organic-inorganic hybrid materials, including developing the science to scale these processes for manufacturing.  

Prof. Losego has over 100 peer-reviewed publications in leading scientific journals that have been cited over 4000 times.  He has been awarded with the AVS Recognition for Excellence in Mentorship (2022) and Georgia Tech’s Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award.  Prof. Losego received his B.S. degree from Penn State University and his M.S. and Ph.D. from North Carolina State University, all in materials science.  Prior to joining the materials science and engineering faculty at Georgia Tech in 2014, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois and a research faculty member in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University.  

Mark has been a member of the AVS Thin Film Division (TFD) since 2013, has served as a member of the TFD executive committee from 2016 – 2019, and as secretary/treasurer since 2019.