MC-CAM - Key Persons
Christopher M. Bates earned a B.S. degree in Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2007 and received a Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin in 2013 under the guidance of C. Grant Willson. After a postdoc with Robert H. Grubbs at the California Institute of Technology, Christopher recently moved to the University of California, Santa Barbara as an Assistant Professor in the Materials and Chemical Engineering Departments. His research focuses on the design of new soft materials. Active projects include the synthesis and characterization of (1) dynamic networks, (2) complex polymer architectures, (3) block polymers, and (4) lithographic patterns.
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- MRL Facilities Director, Professor of Materials and Chemistry, UCSB
- Professor
Professor Craig J. Hawker, FRS is Clarke Professor and holds the Alan and Ruth Heeger Chair of Interdisciplinary Science at UCSB where he directs the California Nanosystems Institute and the Dow Materials Institute. He came to UCSB in 2004 after eleven years as a Research Staff Member at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA. Professor Hawker's research activities focus on synthetic polymer chemistry and nanotechnology, integrating fundamental studies with the development of nanostructured materials for advanced properties and functions in microelectronics and biotechnology. This work has led to over 450 peer-reviewed papers and 60 patents with Professor Hawker helping to establish a range of start-up companies - Relypsa, Intermolecular, Olaplex, Tricida. For his pioneering studies, Professor Hawker's recent honors include the 2013 American Chemical Society Award in Polymer Chemistry, the 2012 Centenary Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry and an Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society in 2011. Professor Hawker has been honored with election to the Royal Society as well as being named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors and American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- General Manager, Technology Platform Department, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
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- Member of the Governing Board
- Senior Director, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
Gab joined the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCSB in 2015. Born and raised in Eastern Ontario, Canada, near the nation's capital, Gab first completed his B.Sc. in Chemistry at the University of Ottawa in 2006. He then moved to the west coast of Canada to undertake his M.Sc. at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver working on early metal dinitrogen activation in Prof. Mike Fryzuk's group (2008). Gab then pursued another one of his passions, studying climate change and its impacts by completing a Master's in Environmental Studies (M.E.S.) at York University in Toronto (2010). In 2009, he joined Prof. Doug Stephan's group at the University of Toronto to undertake his Ph.D. studies working on small molecule activation - in particular greenhouse gases - using P/Al-based frustrated Lewis pairs, and finishing up in 2013. Finally, Gab went to the U.S. to pursue his post-doctoral studies in Prof. Ted Betley's group at Harvard University. Here, he gained experience working on first-row transition metal clusters investigating metal-metal communication, high-valent Ni clusters, and small molecule activation.
Galen Stucky received his Ph.D. in 1962 from Iowa State University. After postdoctoral study at MIT, he held positions at the University of Illinois, Sandia National Laboratory and DuPont Central Research and Development Department before joining the UCSB faculty in 1985. At UCSB, he is Professor in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry (College of Letters and Science), Professor in the Materials Department (College of Engineering), and a member of the Interdepartmental Program in Biomolecular Science and Engineering. He was appointed the E. Khashoggi Industries, LLC Professor in Letters and Science in 2006. Dr. Stucky is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2005) and the American Chemical Society (2013). He was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2013 and awarded, with Avelino Corma and Mark E. Davis, the 2014 Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research.
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- Member of the Governing Board
- Member of the Steering Committee
- Director, MC - CAM
- MC - CAM Director, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials, UCSB
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). From 2009-2014, he was appointed as Executive Director of The KAITEKI Institute, a long-term strategy unit of Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation (MCHC), and since 2014 has been Chief Technology Officer and a Member of the Board of MCHC. Professor Fredrickson has a long-standing interest in the statistical mechanics of complex fluids and soft matter, including polymers, colloids, and glasses. His work is primarily theoretical and computational and has been most recently focused on developing novel field-based computer simulation strategies for the design of nanostructured, self-assembling soft materials. Honors include the Dillon Medal and Polymer Physics Prize of the American Physical Society, the Alpha Chi Sigma and William H. Walker Awards of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Fellowship in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and election to the National Academy of Engineering.
Guillermo Bazan received his Ph.D. from MIT in Inorganic Chemistry in 1991. After a postdoctoral appointment at Caltech, he joined the Chemistry Department at the...
Guillermo Bazan received his Ph.D. from MIT in Inorganic Chemistry in 1991. After a postdoctoral appointment at Caltech, he joined the Chemistry Department at the University of Rochester in 1992. He joined UCSB in 1998. His primary research programs are concerned with the design, synthesis, photophysics, optoelectronic performance and morphology of organic semiconducting materials. Of particular interest are strategies that control the organization of conjugated polymers and molecules in the solid state. Honors include Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Top 50 Materials Scientists by Citation and Impact (2011), Chang Jiang Scholars Professor, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Chemical Society Cope Scholar Award, Bessel Award of the Humboldt Foundation, NSF Special Creativity Award, Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, Sloan Research Fellow Award, NSF CAREER Award.
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- Member of the Governing Board
- CTO, Frontier & Open Innovation Division, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- Materials Department Chair, Professor of Materials, UCSB
Michael Chabinyc obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Stanford University (1999) where he studied gas-phase ion-molecule reactions using ion cyclotron resonance...
Michelle A. O'Malley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2004 and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Delaware in 2009, where she worked with Prof. Anne Robinson to engineer overproduction of membrane proteins in yeast. O'Malley was a USDA- NIFA postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biology at MIT, where she developed new strategies for cellulosic biofuel production. At UCSB, her research group aspires to solve grand challenges in sustainability, ecology, and medicine by deciphering how "unwieldy" microorganisms in the environment perform extraordinary tasks. Her team focuses on anaerobic microbes, which have evolved to work together in complex communities that decompose and recycle carbon biomass throughout the Earth - from our guts, to landfills, ocean sediments, and compost piles. O'Malley's research has been featured on NPR's Science Friday, the BBC Newshour, the LA Times, and several other media outlets. She was named one of the 35 Top Innovators Under 35 in the world by MIT Technology Review in 2015, one of the 10 "Scientists to Watch" by Science News in 2019 and is the recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) - the highest honor bestowed on early career scientists by the US government. She is also the recipient of the ASM Award for Early Career Applied and Biotechnological Research, a DOE Early Career Award, an NSF CAREER award, the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, the ACS BIOT Division Young Investigator Award, an ACS PMSE Division Young Investigator Award, an ACS WCC "Rising Star" Award, and a Hellman Faculty Fellowship.
Morgan completed her undergraduate studies in chemical engineering at The University of Texas at Austin in 2010. She bravely moved north to earn her Ph.D. under the...
Patricia (Trish) Holden earned her Ph.D. (Soil Microbiology) from UC Berkeley in 1995, preceded by her Masters' (ME from UCB, MS from Purdue University) and B.S. (University of Tennessee) in Civil and Environmental Engineering. She joined the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management in 1997, where she is a Professor. She also directs the UCSB Natural Reserve System. Her research regards environmental microbiology in the contexts of natural processes, interactions with materials, remediation, and public health. She is a Switzer Environmental Fellow.
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- Member of the Governing Board
- Dean, Mathematical, Life and Physical Sciences, UCSB
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- Professor and Vice Chair of Chemical Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara
Prof. M. Scott Shell is the Myers Founders Chair Professor and Vice Chair of Chemical Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara. He earned his B.S. in Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon in 2000 and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Princeton in 2005, followed by a postdoc in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at UC San Francisco from 2005-07. Prof. Shell's group develops novel molecular simulation, multiscale modeling, and statistical thermodynamic approaches to address problems in contemporary soft matter. Recent areas of interest include self-assembled peptide materials, nanobubbles, hydrophobic interfaces, colloid-polymer materials, and nanoparticle-membrane interactions. He is the recipient of a Dreyfus Foundation New Faculty Award (2007), an NSF CAREER Award (2009), a Hellman Family Faculty Fellowship (2010), a Northrop-Grumman Teaching Award (2011), a Sloan Research Fellowship (2012), a UCSB Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award (2014), the Dudley A. Saville Lectureship at Princeton (2015), and the CoMSEF Impact Award from AIChE (2017).
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials, UCSB
Rachel Segalman received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1998 and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from UCSB in 2002. Her postdoctoral research in conjugated polymer synthesis and properties took place at the Université Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, France in 2003. She joined the faculty of UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories in 2004 and then moved back to UCSB as a professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials in 2014. Her research focuses on controlling self-assembly, structure, and properties in functional polymers. Structure control over soft matter on a molecular through mesoscopic lengthscale is a vital tool to optimizing properties for applications ranging from energy (solar and thermal) to biomaterials. For example, while molecular structure affects the electronic properties of semiconducting polymers, the crystal and grain structure greatly affect bulk conductivity, and nanometer lengthscale pattern of internal interfaces is vital to charge separation and recombination in photovoltaic and light emission effects. Similarly, biological materials gain functionality from structures ranging from monomeric sequence through chain shape through self-assembly. Her group works to both understand the effects of structure on properties and gain pattern control in these inherently multidimensional problems. They are particularly interested in materials for energy applications such as photovoltaics, fuel cells, and thermoelectrics.
Raphaële Clément received her B.A. and M.Sc. in Natural Sciences in 2012, as well as her Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2016, from the University of Cambridge. Her Ph.D., supervised by Professor Clare Grey, focused on the study of paramagnetic cathode materials for sodium-ion battery applications using solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. She then joined the group of Professor Gerbrand Ceder at UC Berkeley as a postdoc, where she developed both experimental and computational skills applicable to a range of electrochemical materials. She joined the faculty of the Materials Department at UCSB in July 2018. Her current research interests are the study of structural and redox processes in electrochemical materials using magnetic resonance techniques. She is particularly interested in the development of Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) and NMR tools for the study of functional materials operando or in situ, e.g. to capture transient, metastable intermediates forming during normal operation, to study the kinetics of processes, and for full device analysis.
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- Chairman of Interdisciplinary Science at UCSB
Susannah Scott was born in Japan, and grew up in England, South Africa, and Canada. She earned her B.Sc. from the University of Alberta (Canada) and her Ph.D....
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- Fellow, Technology Platform Department, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
Thuc-Quyen Nguyen received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Physical Chemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1997, 1998, and 2001, respectively....
Job Titles:
- Member of the Steering Committee
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- Member of the Governing Board
- Dean, College of Engineering, UCSB