Jud Ready
Executive Director, Space Research Institute
Principal Research Engineer, Georgia Tech Research Institute

W. Jud Ready is the executive director of the Space Research Institute. Prior to this role, he served as associate director of external engagement for the Georgia Tech Institute for Matter and Systems and director of the Georgia Tech Center for Space Technology and Research. He has also been an adjunct professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech and a principal research engineer on the research faculty of Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) for over a dozen years. Prior to joining the Georgia Tech faculty, he worked for a major military contractor (General Dynamics) as well as in small business (MicroCoating Technologies). He has served as PI or co-PI for grants totaling ~$17M awarded by the Army, Navy, Air Force, DARPA, NASA, NSF, NIST, industry, charitable foundations and the States of Georgia and Florida. His current research focuses primarily on energy, aerospace, nanomaterial applications, and electronics reliability.

jud.ready@gtri.gatech.edu
Phone
404.407.6036
Additional Research

Materials Failure and Reliability; Carbon Nanotubes; Integrated photonics; Photovoltaics; Solar

IRI/Group And Role
Energy > Research Community
Space > Faculty
Matter and Systems > Affiliated Faculty
Space > Leadership
Energy
GTRI
Geogia Tech Research Institute > Electro-Optical Systems Laboratory