Juan Pablo (JP) Gevaudan is a modern cement chemist with expertise in the development and durability of both conventional and alternative cementitious materials. He was born and raised in Venezuela and lived in Mexico before settling in the United States. He completed a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Later he received an M.S. and Ph.D. in Architectural Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the recipient of more than 12 honors and awards as well as the 2019-2021 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship. He is passionate about teaching, mentoring and increasing the number of underrepresented minorities within science and technology fields as well as higher education.
This faculty member is associated with the Penn State Intercollege Graduate Degree Program (IGDP) in Materials Science and Engineering (MatSE) where a multitude of perspectives and cross-disciplinary collaboration within research is highly valued. Graduate students in the IGDP in MatSE may work with faculty members from across Penn State.
As PI of the Responsive and Adaptive Infrastructure Materials (Re-AIM), Dr. Gevaudan, has attracted funding for various projects to understand and predict the properties as well as degradation performance of sustainable cementitious materials.
- Napolitano, R., Reinhart, W., & Gevaudan, J. P. (2021). Smart cities built with smart materials. Science, 371(6535), 1200-1201.
- Gevaudan, J. P., Craun, Z., & Srubar III, W. V. (2021). Sulfuric acid degradation of alkali-activated metakaolin cements supplemented with brucite. Cement and Concrete Composites, 121, 104063.
- Gevaudan, J. P., Santa-Ana, B., & Srubar III, W. V. (2021). Iron mineral admixtures improve the sulfuric acid resistance of low-calcium alkali-activated cements. Cement and Concrete Composites, 116, 103867.
- Gevaudan, J. P., & Bernal, S. A. (2021). Chloride-induced corrosion of steel reinforcement in alkali-activated slag/metakaolin blended concretes.
- Osio-Norgaard, J., Aday, A. N., Chen, X., Williams, S. L., Gevaudan, J. P., & Srubar III, W. V. (2021). Silica-modifying chemical admixtures for directed zeolitization of metakaolin-based alkali-activated materials. Cement and Concrete Research, 142, 106348.
- Bedeaux, M., Gevaudan, J. P., Lama, B., & Srubar III, W. V. (2021). Atomic structure and phase assemblages in novel M-(N)-ASH materials. Cement and Concrete Research, 142, 106336.
- Li, Q., Li, X., Yang, K., Zhu, X., Gevaudan, J. P., Yang, C., & Basheer, M. (2021). The long-term failure mechanisms of alkali-activated slag mortar exposed to wet-dry cycles of sodium sulphate. Cement and Concrete Composites, 116, 103893.
- 2019-2021 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellowship
- ‘Best Paper’ award from the Journal of the American Ceramic Society (2020)
- Finalist award of the National Science Foundation 2026 Idea Machine (2020)
- Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2019)
- American Ceramics Society- Cements Division 2018 Poster Award (2018)
- Best Student Presentation- ECI Alkali-Activated Materials and Geopolymers Conf. (2018)
- Engineering Graduate Student Mentor Awardee (2018)
- Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual fellowship by the European Commission