Kodosky ’70 Constellation Chair. Meunier earned his PhD from the University of Namur in Belgium in 1999 and was a senior research and development staff member at Oak Ridge National Laboratory until 2010, when he joined Rensselaer. He has published more than 150 papers in peer-reviewed journals and is a fellow of the American Physical Society. Meunier leads the Innovative Computational Material Physics (ICMP) group, where his research uses computation to examine the atom-level details of materials. He is particularly interested in low-dimensional materials and domains where he can collaboratively work with engineers and experimentalists to optimize these materials, starting at the atomic level and targeting higher-level functionality.