Dr. David Mebane
David Mebane is associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and the leader of the Energy Systems and Materials Simulation group at WVU.
David Mebane is a computational materials scientist with M.S. (2004) and Ph.D. (2007) degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His Ph.D. work focused on high-temperature defect chemistry, solid state electrochemistry, applied mathematics and data science in the context of continuum models of solid oxide
fuel cells. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mechanical Engineering and History from Rice University in 1996. Upon graduating from Georgia Tech in 2007
he began two and a half years of study in solid state ionics at the Max Planck
Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, supported by a National
Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship. An ORISE Postdoctoral Fellowship at the National Energy Technology
Laboratory in Morgantown followed, where Mebane worked with the Department
of Energy's Carbon Capture Simulation Initiative.
Mebane started at West Virginia in 2012, and was promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure in 2018. Principal career accomplishments include the elucidation of diffusion mechanisms in solid amine sorbents, the development of continuum theories for charged interfaces in solids that are in accord with electron microscope evidence, and pioneering work in physics-based machine learning through embedded methods. His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, and NASA along with a number of private sector companies and organizations.