Kyle D. Gilroy, PhD, engineering, College of Engineering

Upon receiving his PhD in engineering from Temple, Kyle Gilroy will head to Georgia for a prestigious post-doctoral fellowship at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

While attending a conference in Boston, engineering doctoral student Kyle Gilroy went to a presentation by Georgia Institute of Technology researcher Younan Xia, a leader in the development and application of next generation nanomaterials. "I went up to talk to him afterwards and he knew who I was," said Gilroy.

It turns out that Gilroy's faculty advisor, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Svetlana Neretina, had presented Gilroy's work months earlier during an invited talk at Georgia Tech, which Xia had attended.

"He asked me to send him my resume, which I did, and he e-mailed me back offering me a post-doctoral position," Gilroy said. "I never thought I would end up working with someone like that. He has literally written the book on this field."

Gilroy, who will graduate with a perfect 4.0 grade point average, came to Temple four years ago after earning his bachelor's degree in biomedical physics, with a minor in mechanical engineering, at the College of New Jersey.

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- Preston Moretz

Temple University

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