Dr. Paul Syers joined the Potomac Institute in September 2015 as a Research Associate and CReST Fellow. His current projects focus on policies regulating corrosion and materials degradation and the activities of the Center for Revolutionary Scientific Thought (CReST).

Dr. Syers received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Maryland, having researched methods for improving the material quality of topological insulators. Prior to that, Paul received a B.S. in Physics from Emory University and an M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge for research on high temperature superconductors.