Dr. Bruce E. Gnade has conducted research focused on applications of flexible electronics. Flexible electronics could be embedded in clothing as sensors, laptops could have roll-out screens for large viewing of maps, and webpages and large area flexible radiation detectors could help secure our nation’s borders.
Gnade has authored or co-authored approximately 150 refereed journal papers, 72 U.S. patents and 55 foreign patents. His current research group involves nearly 20 graduate students, undergraduate students and post-doctoral researchers.
Gnade came to UT Dallas in 2003 from the University of North Texas, where he was chair of the Materials Science Department. Prior to that, he was a program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the central research and development organization for the U.S. Department of Defense, and a visiting scientist at the University of Maryland at College Park. He also served as a guest researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a federal technology agency.
From the early 1980s to the mid-1990s, Gnade held a number of technical and managerial positions in research and development functions at Texas Instruments in Dallas.
He earned a doctorate in nuclear chemistry from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from St. Louis University in 1976.