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Paul E. Kladitis

Group Leader, UDRI Distinguished Research Scientist | Adjunct Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Dayton Research Institute: Structural Materials; School of Engineering: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Dr. Paul Kladitis has over 28 years of developmental engineering and leadership experience in various roles for the United States government, industry, and academia including program management; basic, advanced, and applied research and development; installed-system test and evaluation; flight-systems developmental and operational test and evaluation; operations; teaching; and advising. His strengths include multidisciplinary R&D, transition, and application; and leveraging and synthesizing conventional and novel materials for multifunctional structure and material applications.

Dr. Kladitis is currently the leader of the Multifunctional Structures and Materials group in the Structural Materials division at the University of Dayton Research Institute, Dayton, OH. Prior to this, he retired as a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Air Force. During his Air Force tenure, he served as a program manager developing and transitioning advanced technology for the National Reconnaissance Office. He also served as an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Air Force Institute of Technology, Director of Staff for a deployed combat airlift wing, operational and developmental bomber flight test engineer, Director of Operations for an electronic warfare test squadron, and intelligence analyst. Prior to this, he also served in the United States Army Infantry.

Dr. Kladitis’ experience in innovating new nanotechnologies, especially with regard to new forms of carbon, was recognized by appointment to national committees including the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), Nanoscale Science, Engineering and Technology Subcommittee, Washington D.C.; Co-Chair of the NNI Signature Initiative on Sustainable Nanomanufacturing, Washington D.C.; and Co-Chair of the NNI Nanotechnology, Industry Liaison and Innovation Working Group, Washington D.C.. He has also served as the Chair, Treasurer, and Secretary of the Dayton, Ohio Section of the IEEE Executive Committee. He has published over 60 technical papers and 5 patents.