SMI Faculty Bios V5
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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