Glenn Fredrickson
Institute Role
Member of Production & Storage Solutions Group
Role in Affiliated Centers
Director of the Mitsubishi Chemical Center for Advanced Materials
Research
Glenn Fredrickson's research involves the theoretical
analysis of complex fluids and polymers including suspensions, polymer
solutions, and melts, and especially block and graft copolymers. Applications
include organic and hybrid-inorganic materials for electronic and optical
device applications. Another major effort involves the development of new
computer simulation tools for analyzing statistical field theory models of
polymers and complex fluids -- "field theoretic simulations" -- and
the application of such tools to the design of improved complex fluid
formulations and high performance plastic materials.
Biography
Glenn Fredrickson received M.S. (1981) and Ph.D. (1984)
degrees in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University, as well as a B.S.
degree (1980) from the University of Florida. He joined AT&T Bell
Laboratories as a Member of Technical Staff in 1984 and was named Distinguished
Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs in 1989. In 1990, Fredrickson joined UC
Santa Barbara where he is now Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials
and holds the Mitsubishi Chemical Chair in Functional Materials. He served as
Chairman of Chemical Engineering from 1998-2001 and became the founding
Director of the Mitsubishi Chemical Center for Advanced Materials
in 2001. He is also the Executive Director of The Kaiteki Institute in Tokyo,
Japan. Fredrickson is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (2003), a
Fellow of the American Physical Society (1998) and is the recipient of other
awards including a Cooperative Research Award in Polymer Science and
Engineering, American Chemical Society (2008); the Polymer Physics Prize,
American Physical Society (2007); an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (1992); and an NSF
Presidential Young Investigator Award (1990).
