Professor
Contact
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5080
ChemE Research Areas:
Honors:
2021-present Vice-President, International Mesostructured Materials Association
2017 Professeur invité, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
2017 Elected to Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering (IVA)
2016 Braskem Award from the Materials Engineering & Sciences Division (MESD) of AIChE
2015 Elected to, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA)
2015-present Co-Director, Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies, USARO, UCSB-MIT-Caltech
2013 Doctor Honoris Causa, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
2012-15 UCSB Committee on Academic Personnel, Vice-Chair 2013-14, Chair 2014-15
2012-13 Professeur Invité, École Normale Supériore de Lyon I, France
2012 Professeur Invité, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles, Paris, France
2011 Visiting Professor, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
2009 Visiting Professor, Laboratoire des Agrégats Moléculaires, Université Montpellier II, France
2006 Meyerhoff Visiting Professorship, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
2006 Chalmers Jubilee Visiting Professorship, Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden
2005 Visiting Professor, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
2004, 2005 Profesor Invitado, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain
1996-98, 2003 Professeur Invite, University of Paris, Jussieu
1996 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Award
1993 David and Lucile Packard Foundation Award
1993 Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar Award
1992 New Young Investigator Award, NSF Division of Materials Research
1989 NSF Division of Chemistry Post-doctoral Fellowship Award
1989 NSF-NATO Post-doctoral Fellowship Award
Research Description:
Correlation of macroscopic material properties and function with molecular structure and dynamics, particularly in heterogeneous macromolecular solids. Synthesis and characterization of self-assembled inorganic-organic and mesoporous materials for catalysis, separations, and opto-electronic applications. Molecular dynamics and structure in hierarchically ordered polymers, liquid crystals, nanocrystals, and biominerals. Development and application of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy methods for characterizing structure, dynamics, adsorption, transport, and reaction properties of new solid-state materials.
Education:
BS: Chemical Engineering, Arizona State University (1982)
PhD: Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley (1990)
Post-doctoral: Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley (1990), Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany (1991-92)
