Dr. Craig Hawker
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Co-Director
Craig J. Hawker, FRS is the Alan and Ruth Heeger Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies. He received a B.Sc. degree and University Medal in Chemistry from the University of Queensland in 1984 and a Ph.D. in Bioorganic Chemistry from the University of Cambridge in 1988 under the supervision of Prof. Sir Alan Battersby. Jumping into the world of polymer chemistry, he undertook a post-doctoral fellowship with Prof. Jean Fréchet at Cornell University from 1988 to 1990 and then returned to the University of Queensland as a Queen Elizabeth II Fellow from 1991 to 1993. (Read more)
Michael Chabynic
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Michael Chabinyc is an Associate Professor in the Materials Department. He received his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Dayton in 1994 and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Stanford University in 1999. He joined UCSB in 2008 after holding a postdoctoral position at Harvard University (1999-2001), and working as a staff researcher for the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) from 2005-2009. Current interests include materials for flexible electronics and energy storage and conversion. (Read more)
Kris Delaney
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Glenn Fredrickson
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Glenn Fredrickson obtained his Ph.D. at Stanford University in 1984 and subsequently joined AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he was named Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in 1989. In 1990 he moved to the University of California at Santa Barbara, joining the faculties of the Chemical Engineering and Materials Departments. He served as Chair of Chemical Engineering from 1998-2001 and is currently the Director of the Mitsubishi Chemical Center for Advanced Materials (MC-CAM) and the Director of the Complex Fluids Design Consortium (CFDC). Since 2009, he has also served as Executive Director of The KAITEKI Institute, a strategic unit of Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation. (Read more)
Dorothy Pak
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Dorothy Pak received an A. B. in Geology from Mount Holyoke College, an M.S. in Geological Sciences from the University of Wisconsin Madison, and a Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Following postdoctoral studies, she joined U C Santa Barbara’s Materials Research Laboratory in 1997 as an Intern Coordinator, and became the Education Director of the UCSB MRL in 2004.(Read more)
Javier Read de Alaniz
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Dr. Read de Alaniz received his B.S. degree from Fort Lewis College in 1999 and his Doctoral Degree from Colorado State University in 2006. His doctoral training under the direction of Professor Tomislav Rovis focused on asymmetric catalysis using N-heterocyclic carbenes. He pursued his postdoctoral studies at the University of California, Irvine where he worked in the area of total synthesis with Professor Larry E. Overman. During that time he was the recipient of the University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship. Dr. Read de Alaniz joined the faculty at UCSB in 2009. (Read more)
Ram Seshadri
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Co-Director
Ram Seshadri received his Ph.D. in 1995 from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. After some years as a post-doctoral fellow in the CNRS in Caen, France, and in the University of Mainz, Germany, he joined the faculty of the Indian Institute of Science in 1999. He moved to the Materials Department, UCSB in 2002 as an Assistant Professor, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2006 and Professor in 2008. In Fall 2007, he also joined the faculty in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. (Read more)
Fred Wudl
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Currently we are interested in the optical and electro optical properties of processable conjugated polymers, as well as in the organic chemistry of fullerenes, and the design and the preparation of self-mending polymers. We have been studying single component re-mending polymers. Below we show the results of a mechanical properties study where the birefringence is correlated with deformation of the material. (Read more)