Materials Research Laboratory and California NanoSystems Institute University of California, Santa Barbara

Soft Matter Interfaces (SMI) Consortium Meeting Faculty Participants

Megan Valentine, SMI Meeting Co-Chair Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Associate Director, California NanoSystems Institute

Valentine's experimental research focuses on understanding the interplay of structure, dynamics, mechanics, and function in biological and biologically- inspired materials. Current research focuses on translating the strength, toughness and self-healing properties of living systems in synthetic complex fluid and polymer materials, and developing new bioinspired Ph.D. Physics, Harvard University approaches to adhesive design. Selected Honors and Awards: Fulbright Scholar Award; Paris, France Email: [email protected] NSF CAREER Award Burroughs Wellcome Career Award Website: https://me.ucsb.edu/valentinelab/

Matt Helgeson, SMI Meeting Co-Chair Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering

Helgeson's research is devoted to the design and processing of complex fluids, particularly those involving colloidal species (nanoparticles, emulsions, proteins, etc.) in self-assembling & structured liquids (polymers, surfactants, etc.). His group develops novel in situ imaging and scattering methods for probing the evolution of fluid structure and dynamics during processing. They apply these methods to understand Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware Selected Honors and Awards: how processing can lead to well-specified mesostructure Early Career Award, Department of Energy in complex fluids, and how such mesostructure can be NSF CAREER Award used to tailor the mechanical and transport properties of Unilever Award, American Chemical Society soft materials. Victor K. LaMer Award, American Chemical Society

Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.engineering.ucsb.edu/~helgeson/

Christopher Bates, Assistant Professor of Materials

The Bates group leverages chemistry, materials science, and physics in combination with synthetic and physical experimental techniques to design, create, and probe the structure and properties of soft matter. Current endeavors span a variety of topics including dynamic composites, mesostructure control, energy storage, and confined crystallization.

Email: [email protected] Ph.D. Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin Selected Honors and Awards: Website: DSM Science and Technology Award Americas https://materials.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/christopher-m- Reaxys PhD Prize Finalist bates Ben Streetman Prize

Matt Begley, Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Materials

Begley’s research focus is on theoretical mechanics and advanced simulations to guide materials development, with an emphasis on multilayered systems, interfaces and composites. Additionally, he has an active experimental group exploring novel 3D printing strategies for two-phase materials, acoustic assembly of colloidal particles, and the structural integrity of microelectronics. This work draws on his deep expertise in interfacial fracture mechanics, adhesion, structure-property relationships in multi-phase materials, numerical techniques for Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, UCSB Selected Honors and Awards: highly non-linear systems, multiscale plasticity, and Fraunhofer-Bessel Award, Humboldt Foundation multifunctional component design. NSF CAREER Award Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.engineering.ucsb.edu/~begley

Brad Chmelka, Professor of Chemical Engineering Co-Director, Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies, USARO, UCSB-MIT-Caltech

Chmelka's research focuses on the correlation of macroscopic material properties and function with molecular structure and dynamics, particularly in heterogeneous macromolecular solids. His group is active in synthesizing and characterizing self- assembled inorganic-organic and mesoporous materials for catalysis, separations, and opto-electronic applications. Efforts focus on the development and application of nuclear magnetic Ph.D. Chemical Engineering UC Berkeley Selected Honors and Awards: resonance spectroscopy methods for characterizing structure, Foreign Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences dynamics, adsorption, transport, and reaction properties of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Award new solid-state materials. David and Lucile Packard Foundation Award Email: [email protected] Website: https://chemengr.ucsb.edu/~ceweb/faculty/bradc

Glenn Fredrickson, Professor of Chemical Engineering & Materials Director, Mitsubishi Chemical Center for Advanced Materials Director, Complex Fluids Design Consortium

Fredrickson focuses on theoretical analysis of complex fluids and polymers including suspensions, polymer solutions, and melts, and especially block and graft copolymers. A major effort involves the development of new computer simulation tools for analyzing statistical field theory models of polymers and soft matter -- "field theoretic simulations" -- and the application of Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Stanford University Selected Honors and Awards: such tools to the design of improved complex fluid formulations Member, National Academy of Engineering and high performance polymer materials. Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy of Arts & Sciences Email: [email protected] Polymer Physics Prize, American Physical Society Alpha Chi Sigma Award, American Institute of Website: http://www.mc-cam.ucsb.edu/fredrickson/ Chemical Engineers John H. Dillon Medal, American Physical Society

Songi Han, Professor of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering

Han's experimental group is developing novel techniques and innovative approaches, relying on electron and nuclear spin magnetic resonance concepts to investigate soft matter structure-dynamics-property relationships with unprecedented sensitivity, resolution and information content.

Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.chem.ucsb.edu/hangroup/

Ph.D. Chemistry, Aachen University Selected Honors and Awards: Bessel, Humboldt Award NIH Innovator Award Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering NSF CAREER Award

Craig Hawker, Professor of Chemistry & Materials Director, California NanoSystems Institute

Hawker's experimental group focuses on the design and synthesis of nanoscopically defined materials for applications ranging from next-generation microelectronic devices to polymer-based therapeutics. Major emphasis is on development of methods for facile synthesis of functionalized macromolecules with well-controlled architectures.

Email: [email protected] Ph.D. Chemistry, University of Cambridge Selected Honors and Awards: Website: http://hawkergroup.mrl.ucsb.edu/ Member, National Academy of Inventors Fellow of the Royal Society,American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), & Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry RCS Centenary Prize

Elliot Hawkes, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Hawkes’s research focuses on bringing together design, mechanics, and non-traditional materials to advance the vision of robust, adaptable, human-safe robots that can thrive in the uncertain, unstructured world. Current projects involve bio- inspired microstructured adhesive materials, non-linear compliant mechanisms, high-power soft actuators, and growing robots.

Email: [email protected] Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University Website: https://me.ucsb.edu/people/elliot-hawkes Selected Honors and Awards: ICRA 2015 Best Student Paper Award ASME 2015 Best Journal Paper in Bioinspired Systems and Materials

Jacob Israelachvili, Professor of Chemical Engineering & Materials

Israelachvili’s research is mainly experimental and focused in the areas of surface force measurements, colloidal interactions in complex fluid systems and nano-structured materials, adhesion, friction and lubrication, and the interactions of biological macromolecules, surfaces and membranes.

Email: [email protected] Web: Ph.D. Experimental Physics, University of Cambridge Selected Honors and Awards: https://chemengr.ucsb.edu/~ceweb/ce/people/faculty/israelach Member, National Academy of Science vili/ Member, National Academy of Engineering Fellow, Royal Society of London Fellow, Australian Academy of Science

Fellow, AAAS

MRS Medal Gold Medal in Tribology

Robert McMeeking, Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Materials

McMeeking uses theoretical and computational approaches to tackle a wide range of problems in Solid Mechanics, Materials, and Structures with particular emphasis on fracture, plasticity, composite materials, materials processing, materials durability, multifunctional materials and structures, thermal barrier coatings, blast and fragment resistant structures, and biomechanics.

Ph.D. Solid Mechanics, Brown University Email: [email protected] Selected Honors and Awards: Website: https://me.ucsb.edu/people/robert-mcmeeking Member, National Academy of Engineering Timoshenko Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineering William Prager Medal, Society Engineering Science

Rachel Segalman, Professor of Chemical Engineering & Materials

Segalman works on controlling the structure and thermo- dynamics of functional polymers including polymerized ionic liquids and semiconducting and bioinspired polymers. This has led to a host of new and promising applications, particularly in plastic thermoelectrics

Email: [email protected]

Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, UCSB Website: http://www.segalman.mrl.ucsb.edu/ Selected Honors and Awards: Journal of Polymer Science Innovation Award John H. Dillon Medal, American Physical Society PECASE Award Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award

Joan Shea, Professor of Chemistry & Physics

Research in the Shea Group focuses on developing and applying techniques of statistical and computational physics to the study of biological and soft matter systems.

Email: [email protected]

Website: https://labs.chem.ucsb.edu/shea

Ph.D. Physical Chemistry, MIT Selected Honors and Awards: Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship David and Lucile Packard Award NSF CAREER Award

Todd Squires, Professor of Chemical Engineering

Squires' group uses experimental and theoretical tools to address questions in various areas of micro-scale fluid mechanics and transport science: designing long-range interactions in colloidal suspensions, measuring and understanding rheology and mechanics of surfactant interfaces, interfacial polymerization and adsorption, and transport processes in soft materials.

Email: [email protected] Ph.D. Physics, Harvard University Website: http://squerver.chemengr.ucsb.edu/ Selected Honors and Awards: GSOFT Early Career Award, APS Soft Matter Group Fellow, American Physics Society Pierre Gilles de Gennes Prize Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award Frenkiel Award for Fluid Mechanics Beckman Young Investigator NSF CAREER Award

Kimberly Turner, Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Turner's research focuses on the design and use of MEMS devices and fabrication technologies to advance the development of versatile adhesives and nonlinear resonator systems, as well as new methods for soft materials characterization.

Email: [email protected] Web: http://engineering.ucsb.edu/~tmems/

Ph.D. Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University Selected Honors and Awards: NSF CAREER Award

Herb Waite, Professor of MCD Biology & Biochemistry

Waite's experimental research focuses on understanding the structure-function relationships in load-bearing materials made by marine organisms. Included are mussel byssus for durable adhesive bonding in hostile, wet environments, high impact biopolymer networks in polychaete fangs and squid beak, as well as shape-memory proteins from whelk egg capsules. Through experimental studies of natural and synthetic materials, he aims to develop the fundamental design principles involved in bio-adhesion, achieve translation to Ph.D. Biochemistry, Duke University synthetic systems, and pioneer a systems approach to wet Selected Honors and Awards: bonding that spans nano- to macroscale dimensions. Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science 3M-Adhesion Society Award (2009) for the Science of Adhesion Email: [email protected] Website: https://www.mcdb.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/waite