Charles L. Liotta, PhD
Vice Provost for Research and Dean of Graduate Studies, Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. Charles L. Liotta, Vice Provost for Research and Dean of Graduate Studies for the Georgia Institute of Technology, joined the Georgia Tech faculty as an Assistant Professor in 1965. He has risen through the ranks and, in 1997; he was made a Regents' Professor, which he holds concurrent with the Vice Provost position. Dr. Liotta received his B.S. in Chemistry from Brooklyn College and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Maryland.
As the Vice Provost for Research and Dean of Graduate Studies, Dr. Liotta guides the investment of research resources and nurtures the development of researchers and their programs. His Office of Research and Graduate Studies oversees the administration of a research enterprise expending over $425 million annually for FY’04. His management team supports interdisciplinary program development, manages the business processes for the research funding, and invests in world-class research facilities, federal relations and international research and graduate study collaborations. His responsibilities include programs to attract high quality faculty and graduate students to Georgia Tech, and assure that their innovations become realities in the global market place.
Dr. Liotta is a synthetic physical & organic chemist whose major interests lie in the areas of kinetics and mechanisms of heterogeneous reactions, reactions and processes in supercritical and near critical and gas-expended liquids, synthesis and physical and chemical properties of polymers (polyesters, polyamides, polyformaldehyde and electrically conducting polymers systems). He is currently collaborating with Professor Charles Eckert (Chemical Engineering) and their collective research groups presently consists of four graduate students and three post-doctoral associates in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and twelve graduate students and four post-doctoral associate in the School of Chemical Engineering.
During the past thirty-nine years, Dr. Liotta has been invited to present over 300 research seminars at various universities, colleges, chemical companies, symposia, professional meetings (ACS), Gordon Conferences, etc. in North America, Europe, and Asia. He has authored over 150 research publications. He is a member of the American Chemical Society and of Alpha Chi Sigma Professional Fraternity. Currently he is a consultant for E. I. DuPont de Nemours and Company (30 years), Milliken Research Corporation (34 years), Milliken Research Corporation (34 years) and the American Pacific Corporation (4 years).
Dr. Liotta has been the recipient of a number of Georgia Tech awards, including an Outstanding Teacher Award in 1971, an Outstanding Faculty Award (Student Government) in 1972, an Outstanding Faculty Award (Interfraternity Council) in 1994, and an Outstanding Service Award in 1995. He also received a Sigma Xi Research Award from the Georgia Tech Chapter of Sigma Xi in 1982. He is a honorary member of the Omicron Delta Kappa and the Phi Kappa Phi fraternities. In 1994, he was appointed a Joint Professor of Chemical Engineering in the School of Chemical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He was also the recipient of the Presidential Green Chemistry Award for 2004 and recipient of the Malcolm E. Pruitt Award for 2005.
Dr. Liotta is on the Board of Governors for the following organizations: Oak Ridge National Laboratories (ORNL), EMTech Biosciences, Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU), the MACARO Sustainability Center at the University of Pittsburgh and the Environmental Improvement Committee for the American Chemical Society.