Program in Polymers and Soft Matter (PPSM)
Faculty
Faculty directly active in the academic administration of the program:
Professor Alfredo Alexander-Katz | Lab Website
PPSM Program Director
DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
(617) 452-2238, aalexand@mit.edu
Polymer physics, drug-delivery, self-assembly, adhesion, driven systems
Professor Daniel Blankschtein | Lab Website
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
(617) 253-4594, dblank@mit.edu
Statistical mechanics, thermodynamics and physical chemistry of complex fluids and micellar solutions
Professor Patrick S. Doyle | Lab Website
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
(617) 253-4534, pdoyle@mit.edu
Microrheology, Biophysics, Microfluidics Separations, Polymer Physics, Transport Phenomena
Professor Ariel L. Furst | Lab Website
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
(617) 253-4677, afurst@mit.edu
Bioelectrochemistry, Clinical diagnostics, Biotechnology, Surface chemistry, and Self-assembly
Professor Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli | Lab Website
DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
(617) 253-5632, rafagb@mit.edu
Computational materials science, atomistic simulations, machine learning
Professor Aristide Gumyusenge | Lab Website
DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
EMAIL: aristide@mit.edu
Electronic Materials, Polymers, Semiconductors, Surfaces, Interfaces, and Thin Films
Professor Paula T. Hammond | Video Profile | Lab Website
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
(617) 258-7577, hammond@mit.edu
Macromolecular Design and Synthesis, Functionalized Polymers, Optical Properties of Polymers, Liquid Crystalline Polymeric Materials
Professor Darrell J. Irvine | Lab Website
DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
(617) 452-4174, djirvine@mit.edu
Biomaterials surfaces, Tissue engineering/complex materials, Polymer-biopolymer nanosystems, Bioengineering of the immune system
Professor Jeremiah A. Johnson | Lab Website
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
(617) 253-1819, jaj2109@mit.edu
Drug-delivery, Hydrogels, Biopolymers, Nanoparticles, Semiconducting polymers, Organometallic polymers, Photoactive polymers
Professor Robert J. Macfarlane | Lab Website
DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
(617) 253-3300, rmacfarl@mit.edu
Biomaterials, Composites, Electronic, Photonic, and Magnetic Materials,
Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Nanotechnology,
Polymers, Self Assembly
Professor Gareth McKinley | Lab Website
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
(617) 258-0754, gareth@mit.edu
Non-Newtonian fluid dynamics, polymer processing, viscoelasticity, flow stability, extensional rheology & filament stretching
Professor Bradley D. Olsen | Lab Website
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
(617) 715-4548, bdolsen@mit.edu
Block copolymers, Soft condensed matter physics, Protein-based materials, Bioelectronics
Professor Christine Ortiz | Lab Website
DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
(617) 452-3084, cortiz@mit.edu
Macromolecular systems, nanomechanics, structure-property relationships, biomimetic materials design
Professor Qin (Maggie) Qi | Lab Website
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
(617) 253-0096, qmqi@mit.edu
Complex fluids, transport phenomena, biomechanics, microfluidics, microphysiological systems,
biomedical engineering
Professor Ritu Raman | Lab Website
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
(617) 253-2201, ritur@mit.edu
Soft materials, biomaterials, biological actuators, tissue engineering
Professor Katharina Ribbeck | Lab Website
DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING
(617) 715-4575, ribbeck@mit.edu
Physiological transport, mucus barriers, biofilms, pathogen/host interactions
Professor Gregory C. Rutledge | Lab Website
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
(617) 253-0171, rutledge@mit.edu
Polymer Physics, Thermodynamics of bulk polymers molecular modeling
Professor Hadley D. Sikes | Lab Website
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
(617) 253-5224, sikes@mit.edu
Functional polymeric materials, Macromolecular design, Clinical diagnostics
Professor Zachary P. Smith | Lab Website
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
(617) 715-4503, zpsmith@mit.edu
Membrane separations, polymer physics, polymer chemistry, porous materials, and nanotechnology
Professor Timothy M. Swager | Lab Website
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
(617) 253-4423, tswager@mit.edu
Synthesis and characterization of electronically and optically active polymers and polymer sensory materials
Professor Krystyn J. Van Vliet | Lab Website
DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
(617) 253-3315, krystyn@mit.edu
Mechanically coupled material systems, mechanical properties of nanoscale polymer films, chemomechanical coupling in living cells
Professor Ioannis Yannas
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING/DMSE
(617) 253-4469, yannas@mit.edu
Biodegradable polymeric templates for organ regeneration; design and clinical testing of artificial skin
Professor Xuanhe Zhao | Lab Website
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING/CEE
(617) 324-6367, zhaox@mit.edu
Soft materials, solid mechanics, bioinspired design, electroactive polymers, surface instabilities, tough hydrogels
PPSM EMERITUS FACULTY
Professor Robert E. Cohen
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Professor Karen K. Gleason
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Professor Michael F. Rubner
DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
PPSM FACULTY AFFILIATES
Professor Robert C. Armstrong
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
(617) 253-4581, rca@mit.edu
Polymers fluid mechanics, rheology, polymer processing, kinetic theory and rheology, applied mathematics
Professor Robert S. Langer
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
(617) 253-3107, rlanger@mit.edu
Polymeric, controlled drug delivery systems
Professor Keith A. Nelson
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
(617) 253-1423, kanelson@mit.edu
Femtosecond-millisecond time resolved spectroscopy of polymers and other viscoelastic media
PPSM EMERITUS AFFILIATE FACULTY
Professor George B. Benedek
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
Professor David K. Roylance
DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
Professor Richard R. Schrock
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139-4307