Bryan Vogt, a national expert in thin films and self-assembled porous materials, came to UA in 2011 from Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ, where he was an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering. Prior to joining ASU in 2006, Vogt was a scientist in the Polymers Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) where he worked with IBM, Intel and Sematech on the fundamentals of chemically amplified photoresists, Vitex on understanding moisture transport in ultrabarriers for organic electronics and origins of critical relative humidity in adhesion failure. Vogt received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from University of Massachusetts-Amherst.