People
Center Director
Monica Olvera de la Cruz
Lawyer Taylor Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry and (by courtesy) Chemical and Biological Engineering, Physics and Astronomy
Director, Center for Computation & Theory of Soft Materials
Deputy Director, Center for Bio-Inspired Energy Science
Executive Committee
George Schatz
Professor of Chemistry and (by courtesy) Chemical and Biological Engineering
Samuel Stupp
Board of Trustees Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry, Medicine and Biomedical Engineering and (by courtesy) Biomedical Engineering
Director, Center for Regenerative Nanomedicine
Director, Center for Bio-Inspired Energy Science
Peter Voorhees
Frank C. Engelhart Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and (by courtesy) Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
Co-Director, CHiMaD
Faculty
Michael Bedzyk
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and (by courtesy) Physics and Astronomy
Co-Director, Northwestern Synchroton Research Center
Neha Kamat
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and (by courtesy) Chemical and Biological Engineering
Erik Luijten
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and (by courtesy) Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy, and Chemistry
Associate Dean for Research and Doctoral Education
Alfonso Mondragon
Professor, Molecular Biosciences, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Co-Director, Northwestern Synchroton Research Center
George Schatz
Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry and of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Samuel Stupp
Board of Trustees Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry, Medicine and Biomedical Engineering and (by courtesy) Biomedical Engineering
Director, Center for Regenerative Nanomedicine
Director, Center for Bio-Inspired Energy Science
Igal Szleifer
Christina Enroth-Cugell Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Professor of Medicine
Danielle Tullman-Ercek
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Director, Master of Science in Biotechnology Program
Petia Vlahovska
Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering
Collaborators
Francisco Solis
Associate Professor, Physics, School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences
Arizona State University
International Collaborators
Cecilia Noguez
Professor of Physics, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Fisica
Research Team
Shih-Yuan Chen
Postdoctoral Scholar, Driscoll Group
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Students
Hector Manuel Lopez de la Cerda Rios
Ph.D. Student, Materials Science and Engineering
Former Researchers
Aaveg Aggarwal
Ph.D., Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University
Postdoctoral Researcher, CCTSM, Northwestern University
Debarshee Bagchi
Polymer Electrolytes
Jan 2018 - Oct 2020, Postdoctoral Scholar, CCTSM, Northwestern University
Postdoctoral Fellow, ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore, India
Ed Banigan
Ph.D., Applied Physics, Northwestern University
Postdoctoral Associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sumitabha Brahmachari
Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University
Chase Austyn Brisbois
Senior Staff Modeling and Simulation Scientist, SciTec Inc
Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
Yuba Dahal
Postdoctoral Researcher, NIST and the University of Chicago
Ali Ehlen
Energy Markets Modeler, Pattern Energy
Ph.D., Applied Physics, Northwestern University
Aykut Erbas
Jan 2014 - Aug 2018, Postdoctoral Scholar, Northwestern University
Assistant Professor, Bilkent University, UNAM
Martin Girard
Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany
Ming Han
Kadanoff-Rice Postdoctoral Fellow at Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago
Kyle Hoffman
Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
Dupont Pioneer
Aysenur Iscen
Ph.D., Chemistry, Northwestern University
Post Doctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Kurinji Krishnamoorthy
Scientist at DuPont Industrial Biosciences
Ha-Kyung Kwon
Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
Senior Research Scientist, Toyota Research Institute
Siyu Li
Assistant Professor, University of California, Riverside
Oct 2019 - June 2021, Postdoctoral Scholar, Northwestern University
Distinguished Research Fellow, Songshan Lake Materials Lab, China
Yaohua Li
Ph.D., Applied Physics, Northwestern University
Research Engineer, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd, Shanghai, China
Yihao Liang
Membranes and Electrostatics
Aug 2018 - May 2021, Postdoctoral Scholar, Northwestern University
Research Engineer, Huawei Technologies, China
Yange Lin
Ph.D., Chemistry, Northwestern University
Research Engineer, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd, China
Shuangping Liu
Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
Software Engineer, Google
Boran Ma
Assistant Professor, University of Southern Mississippi
Daniel Matoz-Fernandez
Institute of Theoretical Physics, Complutense University of Madrid
Oct 2019 - Feb 2021, Postdoctoral Scholar, Northwestern University
Assistant Professor, Warsaw University, Poland
Joseph McCourt
Ph.D., Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University
Postdoctoral Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory
Rebecca Menssen
Ph.D., Engineering Science and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University
Jaime Millan
Data Scientist, Thrive Market
Dr. Trung Nguyen
Optimization of Simulations for Charged Systems
2016 - 2018, Research Associate, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University
2018 - 2021, Research Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University
As of 2022, Computational Scientist, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago
Daniel Alejandro Olaya-Muñoz
Continuum Electrostatics
Nov 2021 - May 2022, Research Specialist, Northwestern University
Assistant Professor, Universidad EIA, Medellin
Saije Pan
Ph.D., Applied Physics, Northwestern University
Md Turash Haque Pial
Postdoctoral Scholar, Johns Hopkins University
August 2022 - February 2024- Postdoctoral Scholar, Northwestern University
Debadutta Prusty
Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California Riverside
Victor Pryamitsyn
Dec 2015 - Nov 2018, Research Associate Senior, Northwestern University
Contractor, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Dingwen Qian
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Texas, Austin
Ph.D., Applied Physics, Northwestern University
Baofu Qiao
Solvent Extraction
Sept 2011 - May 2013, Postdoctoral Scholar, Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
June 2013 - Aug 2014, Research Associate, Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
Dec 2017 - Nov 2020, Research Assistant Professor, CCTSM, Northwestern University
Dec 2020 - Aug 2022, Research Associate Professor, CCTSM, Northwestern University
Assistant Professor, Nature Sciences, Baruch College, City University of New York
Anugu Abhiram Reddy
Nov 2021 - Aug 2022, Postdoctoral Scholar, Northwestern University
Software Research Scientist, Intel
Eileen Soyoung Seo
Ph.D., Chemistry, Northwestern University
Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
Meng Shen
Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, California State University, Fullerton
Curt Waltman
Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
CCTCh Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, UChicago
Jeremy Wang
Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
NRC Research Associateship Program
Zonghui Wei
Ph.D., Applied Physics, Northwestern University
Data Scientist, SparkBeyond, New York
Huanxin Wu
Ph.D., Applied Physics, Northwestern University
Jianshe Xia
Postdoctoral Scholar, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
December 2021 - April 2024- Postdoctoral Scholar, Northwestern University
Hang Yuan
Ph.D., Applied Physics, Northwestern University
Staff Scientist, Huawei Technologies, Shenzen, China