Chad Risko

Associate Editor, Chemistry of Materials (ACS Publications)

Chad Risko is an Associate Professor of Chemistry in the University of Kentucky (UK) Department of Chemistry and is an affiliated faculty member of the UK Center for Applied Energy Research. Chad is also the Faculty Director of the Office of Undergraduate Research at UK and an Associate Editor at Chemistry of Materials. Chad’s research blends principles from organic and physical chemistry, condensed-matter physics, and materials science to develop computational materials chemistry approaches to better understand and design materials for advanced electronics and power generation and storage applications. For his research and teaching, Chad was named a 2016 Emerging Investigator by the Journal of Materials Chemistry (Royal Society of Chemistry), received a 2018 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, was selected as a 2018 Cottrell Scholar (Research Corporation for Science Advancement, RCSA), and was an RCSA Scialog Fellow for Advanced Energy Storage. At UK, Chad has been honored with the 2019 UK College of Arts & Sciences Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentoring and the 2021 UK Alumni Association Great Teacher Award.