Roy

Della Roy holds a part-time joint appointment in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment and the School of Mechanical, Aerospace, Chemical and Materials as a research professor.  She also serves as Professor Emerita of Materials Science at The Pennsylvania State University where she has held various faculty appointments through the years.  Her various research and teaching interests include the areas of cementitious materials, chemically bonded ceramics, biomaterials research and radioactive waste management. Major accomplishments include the development of ultra-high strength cements, biomaterials for hard tissue replacement; science of cement and ceramic materials for nuclear and hazardous waste management; and utilization of by-products in high performance cements.  She has authored or co-authored some 435 papers plus 10 edited books.  She is Founding Editor of the journal Cement and Concrete Research of which she served as Editor-in-Chief for 34 years.  Roy has supervised the research of some 45 graduate students, and numerous post-doctoral and visiting scholars.