| Dr. Jeffrey Hinkley is a senior Chemical Engineer in AMPB. He earned a BA in Chemistry from Northwestern University and a PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin, and spent 2 years as a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in the Electron Devices Division at the National Bureau of Standards. After 3 years at the US Naval Research Laboratory Adhesives and Composites Branch, he came to Langley in 1983, where he has specialized in rheology, cure and degradation kinetics, and mechanical properties of adhesives, films, elastomers, and composites. Important assignments have included Computational Materials (of which he was a co-founder); the HSR project; the planning team and Challenge Problem owner for the Aircraft Aging and Durability Project; the NESC Composite Crew Module project; and a NASA LaRC Thompson Fellowship in biologically-derived materials. He currently supports work in RATB (Revolutionary Aviation Technologies Branch) and is PI on a Center Innovation Fund project on low-creep deployable composite materials. He has mentored dozens of students over the years and published over 50 refereed journal articles, two book chapters, and two patents. |
