Joshua Adkins
Graduate Assistant
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About
Joshua Adkins is a sixth-year doctoral candidate in the Materials Engineering program at UIC. He earned his B.S. in Chemistry from Xavier University of Louisiana in 2018. His doctoral research is supervised by Drs. Jeremiah Abiade and Saidur Bakaul, and involves the investigation of temperature-, scale- and dopant-mediated ferroelectric phenomena exhibited by complex oxide thin films grown via pulsed laser deposition. He holds a Visiting Student appointment at Argonne National Laboratory and is a UIC Pipeline to an Inclusive Faculty (PIF) Fellow. Joshua also supports undergraduate educational endeavors through UIC’s Equity and Inclusion in Engineering program, adapts and instructs engineering-based mathematics curricula for pre-college programs, and has served as President of UIC’s Black Graduate Student Association.