Title: Some Surprises and Puzzles in Materials Chemistry and Engineering

Speaker: Steve Granick, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Time: 3:30 p.m., June 19, 2013

Venue: Lecture Hall, 2nd Floor, Shaw Building of Science, SCUT North Campus

Sponsor: School of Materials Science and Engineering

Introduction to Prof. Granick: Steve Granick received his B.A. cum laude from Princeton University in 1978 and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1982. He joined the faculty of the University of Illinois in 1985 following postdoctoral research at the Collège de France with P.-G. de Gennes and at the University of Minnesota with Matthew Tirrell. Presently he is Founder Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, as well as Professor of Chemistry, Physics, and Biophysics.

His research interests are in the areas of single-molecule methods, polymers, complex fluids, and biomaterials.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND HONORS:

National ACS Award in Colloid and Interface Science, 2013
ACS Langmuir Lecturer, 2011
Senior International Scientist of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2010
National Polymer Physics Prize, American Physical Society, 2009
Paris-Sciences Medal, City of Paris, 2002
Senior Xerox Award, UIUC, 1993
NSF Award for Special Creativity, 1993
Fellow, American Physical Society, 1992

Visiting Professor, Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie, Paris, France, 2009
Visiting Professor, Curie Institute, Paris, France, 2008
Guest Professor, Zhejiang Univ., China, 2007 to date
Guest Professor of Chemical Physics, USTC, China, 2006 to date
Visiting Professor, Centre Paul Pascal, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, 2003
Visiting Professor, Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie, Paris, France, 2002
Guest Professor of Polymer Chemistry, Peking Univ., China, 2002 to date
Visiting Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, 1994

EDITORIAL AND ADVISORY BOARDS:

Editorial Board of Tribology Letters, 1995 to date
Editorial Board of Langmuir, 1996-1998
Editorial Board of Journal of Polymer Science B, 2000-2012
Editorial Board of Journal of Physical Chemistry, 2002-2005
Editorial Board of Polymer, 2003-2009
Advisory Board, International Nanotribology Forum, 2004 to date
Editorial Board of BioInterphases, 2006 to date
Editorial Board of Journal of Chemical Physics, 2007-2010