News — 2022
Danielle spoke at the ACS POLY “Polymers in Medicine and Biology” workshop in Napa. Thanks to organizers Theresa Reineke and Buddy Ratner for the invitation!
Danielle gave an AIChE Area 08A Plenary Lecture at the 2022 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Meeting. Thanks Shudipto Dishari, Michelle Calabrese, and Siamek Nejati for featuring our work on sequence effects in calcium-responsive biopolymers!
Winnie was selected for the 2022 Future Leaders in ChemE Symposium at North Carolina State University! Congratulations!
Mike was selected as a speaker for the Colloidal, Macromolecular, and Polyelectrolyte Solutions Gordon Research Seminar! He will share his recent studies of “Gelation Dynamics during Photocrosslinking of Polymer Nanocomposite Hydrogels.”
The group welcomes the new cohort of ChemE Ph.D. students! We are excited to host rotations for Philip Onffroy (Autumn, Bucknell University), Alexandra Ramos (Winter, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez), and Eleanor Quirk (Winter, University of California, San Diego)!
Thanks to Profs. Ting Xu and Yan Xia for organizing the first-ever Berkeley/Stanford Soft Matter Symposium! We look forward to seeing you at Stanford next year.
Danielle spoke at the 2022 Physical Aspects of Polymer Science Meeting, held by the UK Polymer Physics Group at the Institute of Physics in London! The lecture is available here.
Brendan passed his qualifying exam in Chemical Engineering! Congratulations!!
Danielle gave an invited talk at the 2022 Polymer Physics Gordon Research Conference organized by Profs. Sanat Kumar and Rachel Segalman. Thanks for featuring our work!
Welcome to our summer researchers!! Lisa Nieman and Isabella Tavarez are current Stanford undergraduate students joining us through the Department of Chemical Engineering Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU); Peter Musenge is a rising senior at St. Augustine’s University joining us through the School of Engineering’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF); and Ke Jin is a rising senior at Tsinghua University joining us through the School of Engineering’s Chinese Undergraduate Visiting Research (UGVR) Program.
Congratulations to Winnie, who was selected for the 2022 cohort of the Stanford Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program!
Prof. Mai was recognized with an Inspiring Early Academic Career Award by Stanford’s Faculty Women’s Forum! This award honors pre-tenure faculty members who create a culture of inclusion and belonging for students and trainees at all levels.
It was so fun to join the Stanford Polymer Collective’s annual poster session, where Alana shared her research!
Alana passed her qualifying exam in Physics! Congratulations!!
Mike Burroughs won a 2022 Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellows Award for his research on “Engineering Biolubrication at the Molecular Scale.” Congratulations Mike!!
Marina, Alana, Louis, and Prof. Mai attended the APS March Meeting in Chicago, Illinois. Congratulations to Marina for giving the group’s first student talk at a conference and to Louis and Alana for wonderful poster presentations!
A warm welcome back to Brendan Wirtz (Chemical Engineering PhD student), who officially joined the lab! He plans to develop recyclable 3D-printing resins in collaboration with the Congreve Lab.
Our latest lab outing was a welcome dinner for our visitors Prof. Yun Jung Yang and Ph.D. students Seo Hyung Moon and Hye Jin Hwang from Inha University in Incheon, South Korea!
Congratulations and best wishes to Dr. Ta-Chung Liu, who is starting a new role as an Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University.
Happy New Year! We are excited to welcome Gatha Shambharkar (MSE M.S. Student) to the lab!