Matthew Galazzo

Dr. Galazzo is a materials scientist and engineer with specialties in electrochemistry, polymer chemistry, and materials characterization. He has extensive experience in electrochemical device fabrication and characterization through careful design, selection, and tuning of material interfaces. Dr. Galazzo also brings expertise in a suite of advanced imaging and characterization techniques including SEM/TEM with EDS, XRD, NMR, FTIR, Raman, UV-Vis, Fluorometry, DSC, TGA, and electrochemical characterization (amperometry, voltammetry, EIS, etc.) 

Prior to joining Exponent, Dr. Galazzo received his Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Materials Science from Vanderbilt University. His research involved developing energy harvesting and storage devices by interfacing photosynthetic protein functional groups and redox sites with various metals and semiconductors to improve electron transfer. As part of this work, he fabricated prototype redox flow batteries, solar cells, and CO2 catalysts. This work involved extensive polymer synthesis, nanoparticle synthesis, metal and semiconductor deposition, and microfluidic fabrication. For his master's degree, Dr. Galazzo designed and tested post-synthesis modifiable polymers as alternatives to fluorinated polymer membranes for hydrogen fuel cell applications.