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INSIGHT from CUSTOMER

Interview 2 Interview with Dr. Paul Eason

“I truly felt like

we aren’t just a customer,

we are working together to

advance science”

Hello Dr. Paul Eason, thank you for taking the time to
discuss the new UNF MedNexus project with us today.
Can you please tell our readers a little more about yourself
and your past and current research efforts?

I appreciate the opportunity to share more about all the great things
going on in my research and here at UNF. I accepted a tenure track
position at UNF 14 years ago as the only metallurgist and materials
science PhD in the college. Over the course of my career here the de­
velopment of materials characterization capabilities has remained a
parallel effort with the pursuit of my own research in the structure
processing property relationships of structural metals. As a trained
electron microscopist, the creation of a characterization facility on
campus was vital to the growth of my research. In my time here we
have grown our research capabilities, hired new materials focused fac­
ulty and forged partnerships across departments and colleges, and we
now have a group of 20 materials research focused faculty rom
Engineering, Chemistry, Physics and Biology. I’m excited to tell the
readers that out master’s degree program in materials science and en­
gineering is launching in the fall of 2021.

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