Josef W. Zwanziger

Education

• BA, University of Chicago
• PhD, Cornell University
• PDF, University of California at Berkeley

Research interests

We are interested in the development of new glassy materials for application in optical instruments and construction. We use a combination of experimental, computational, and theoretical approaches to understand glass structure and environmental response.

Selected awards and honours

• Varshneya Frontiers of Glass Science Award from the American Ceramics
  Society, 2019
• E. W. R. Steacie Award from the Canadian Society for Chemistry, 2018
• John C. Polanyi Award from the Canadian Society for Chemistry , 2017
• Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in NMR Studies of Materials, 2003-present
• Editor, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 2010-present
• Dalhousie Innovation Award, 2007 and 2008
• Editor, Journal of Physical Chemistry, 2003-2007

Selected publications

• Anisotropic stress in laser-written LaBGeO₅ glass-ceramic
  composites, A Paterson, JW Zwanziger, J. Appl. Phys. 124, 083106-
  (2018).
• Short-range Structure of TeO₂ Glass, MG Nagendrachar, U
  Werner-Zwanziger, JW Zwanziger, A DeCeanne, B Hauke, K Bozer, SA
  Feller, J. Phys. Chem. C 121, 28117-28124 (2017).
• Elasto-optic coefficients of borate, phosphate and silicate glasses: determination by Brillouin spectroscopy, J Galbraith, L Chapman, JW Zwanziger, M Aldridge, J Kieffer, J. Phys. Chem. C 120,
  21802-21810 (2016).
  
• Mechanical-Structural Investigation of Ion-Exchanged Lithium Silicate Glass using Micro-Raman Spectroscopy, C Calahoo, JW Zwanziger, IS Butler, J. Phys. Chem. C 120, 7213-7232 (2016).
  
• Recent developments in the ABINIT software package, X Gonze, JW Zwanziger, et al., Comput. Phys. Commun. 205, 106-131 (2016).