The Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Research and Innovation hosts Dr. Santamarina as finalist for director of the Strategic Energy Institute. During this lecture, he provide his vision of how Georgia Tech can best contribute to energy research and how he would achieve that vision.

• To register feedback on this or any of the finalists, visit the SEI search website. Public input will be accepted until May 21, 2010.

About This Candidate:
Dr. J. Carlos Santamarina is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he holds the Goizueta Foundation Faculty Chair, and is also the co-director of the Center for Applied Geomaterials Research. His expertise is in the area of particulate materials and phenomena including diagenetic processes, fabric evolution, energy coupling, and environmental effects.