Title: Affiliate Professor of Sciences and Engineering
Company: University of South Carolina Aiken
Location: Aiken, South Carolina, United States
Carol M. Jantzen, PhD, Affiliate Professor of Sciences and Engineering at the University of South Carolina Aiken, has been recognized by Marquis Who’s Who Top Scientists for dedication, achievements, and leadership in glass chemistry.
With decades of experience to her credit, Dr. Jantzen has excelled as a part-time member of the affiliate faculty at the University of South Carolina Aiken since 2019. Beginning her career with a research fellowship at the University of Aberdeen from 1977 to 1979, she subsequently served at the Rockwell International Science Center as a technical staff member from 1979 to 1981, and at Bechtel as a senior engineer from 1981 to 1982. Between 1982 and 2019, she found success as a consulting scientist at the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL). Moreover, Dr. Jantzen was notably elected as the first woman president of the American Ceramic Society from 1996 to 1997, breaking barriers in a traditionally male-dominated field.
To support her professional ambitions, Dr. Jantzen pursued her undergraduate and graduate studies at Queens College, part of the City University of New York system, earning a Bachelor of Science in geology in 1967 and a Master of Science in geology in 1969. She concluded her formal academic efforts with a Doctor of Philosophy in material science and engineering from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1977. Dr. Jantzen’s exceptional commitment to science and education was further recognized with an Honorary PhD from Queens College in 2014.
Attributing her success to her open-minded approach and her willingness to embrace opportunities, Dr. Jantzen has been celebrated with numerous accolades, including the Savannah River Site Career Achievement Award for Technical Achievement in 2006, the Wendell D. Weart Lifetime Achievement Award from the WM Symposium and Sandia National Laboratory in 2008, the Distinguished Life Award from the American Ceramic Society in 2008, the Donald A. Orth Lifetime Achievement Award from SRNL in 2010, the South Carolina Governor’s Award for Excellence in Scientific Research in 2016, and the Ceramic Engineering Award from the American Ceramic Society in 2024, among many others. Beyond her primary endeavors, she was additionally active as an adjunct professor of ceramic engineering at Clemson University between 1989 and 1999, a science advisor for GlassWRX between 2020 and 2023, and an associate editor for the Journal of the American Ceramic Society since 1989. Looking toward the future, Dr. Jantzen hopes to continue thriving as an affiliate professor at the University of South Carolina Aiken while contributing to the building of the Fredericks Mineral Gallery.
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