Robert Klie

Robert F. Klie is a Professor and Head of the UIC Physics Department. As a scientist, he specializes in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics and serves as the Director of the Nanoscale Physics Group, the Academic Director of the Electron Microscopy Core Facilities at the Research Resources Center at UIC, and the co-director of the UIC Institute for Functional and Regenerative Materials.

Dr. Klie’s group focusses on atomic-resolution characterization of functional and regenerative materials using state-of-the-art transmission electron microscopy. In recent years, he pioneered novel materials characterization approaches combining solid-state physics with biomaterials and polymer science. Dr. Klie has been awarded numerous grants from the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy, including most recently a $4M NSF-MRI grant to purchase a first-of-its-kind scanning transmission electron microscopy that will enable a new level of materials characterization at UIC for next generation energy-storage/conversion, quantum computing and superconducting materials.