Juan Carlos Idrobo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering and holds a joint appointment with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Specializing in the development and application of advanced electron microscopy techniques, he delves into the electronic structures of materials at an atomic level. His research is particularly focused on enriching our foundational knowledge of materials and devices used in quantum and energy transport applications.

Juan Carlos has published over 180 papers in peer review journals with over 22,000 citations. In 2018 he was recognized by Clarivate Analytics to be among the top 1% of researchers being cited in Cross-Field in Web of Science, between 2006 and 2016. Juan Carlos holds Physics degrees from Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia (B.Sc., 2000), University of Illinois at Chicago (Master, 2003) and University of California Davis (Ph.D., 2004). Idrobo is a Fellow of the Microscopy Society of America (2023).