Faculty

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 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 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 Qin (Maggie) Qi | Lab Website 
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
(617) 253-0096, qmqi@mit.eduComplex fluids, transport phenomena, biomechanics, microfluidics, microphysiological systems,
biomedical engineering

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 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 Ritu Raman | Lab Website
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
(617) 253-2201, ritur@mit.edu
Soft materials, biomaterials, biological actuators, tissue engineering

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

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 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 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 Caroline A. Ross | Lab Website
DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
(617) 258-0223, caross@mit.edu
Magnetic thin films, devices, self-assembly

Professor Thomas J. Wallin
DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
(617) 253-2603, tjwallin@mit.edu
Health and medicine, manufacturing, soft matter, synthesis and processing, device fabrication

Professor Katharina Ribbeck | Lab Website
DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING
(617) 715-4575, ribbeck@mit.edu
Physiological transport, mucus barriers, biofilms, pathogen/host interactions

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 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 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

Professor Ankur Jain
DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY
(617) 452-3563, ajain@wi.mit.edu
Role of RNA, self-assembly, cellular organization, and neurodegenerative diseases.