Leadership, Staff, & Partners

Leadership

PI and Director
Professor, CBE & MSE
University of Delaware
thepps@udel.edu

Co-PI and Co-Director
Professor, MSE & CBE
University of Delaware
lkorley@udel.edu

Executive Director
University of Delaware
gregoryg@udel.edu

Co-Lead of IRG 1
Professor, MSE
University of Delaware
pochan@udel.edu

Co-Lead of IRG 1
Associate Professor, CBE & MSE
University of Delaware
akloxin@udel.edu

Co-Lead of IRG 2
Department Chair, MSE
University of Delaware
zide@udel.edu

Co-Lead of IRG 2, Facilities Director
Professor, MSE
University of Delaware
doty@udel.edu

Education Director
University of Delaware
alandry@udel.edu

Financial Analyst
CHARM & CPI
changxu@udel.edu

Program Coordinator
CHARM & CRiSP
jmadanat@udel.edu

Safety Coordinator
MSE
stinner@udel.edu

Assistant to the Director
CHARM & CRiSP
sadodd@udel.edu

Peptide Synthesis and Instrumentation Specialist
CHARM PPMC
npetrich@udel.edu

CBE – Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
MSE – Materials Science & Engineering

CPI – Center for Plastics Innovation
CRiSP – Center for Research in Soft-matter & Polymers

Tatiana Poladko
Founder, TeenSHARP
tatiana.poladko@teensharp.org

Cherese Winstead
Dean of the College of Agriculture, Science and Technology (CAST), Delaware State University
cwinstead@desu.edu

Arezue Boroujerdi
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Claflin University
aboroujerdi@claflin.edu

Derrick Swinton
Associate Dean of the School of Integrative Science and Technology (IST), Kean University
dswinton@kean.edu

Susan Giancola
Senior Associate Director of the Center for Research and Education in Social Policy (CRESP), University of Delaware
giancola@udel.edu

COE – College of Engineering; CAS – College of Arts & Sciences

Dawn Elliott	Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering Associate Dean for Graduate and Post-Graduate Education
Marianthi Ierapetritou	Gore Centennial Professor at UD and former Associate VP for Promotion of Women in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics at Rutgers U., COE
Kelvin Lee	Vice President for Research, Scholarship and Innovation
LaRuth McAfee	Senior Assistant Dean, Graduate College
Mark Mirotznik	Interim Chair, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Edward Nowak	Chairperson for Department of Physics & Astronomy, CAS
Tania Roth	Associate Dean for the Natural Sciences Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Rachel Segalman	IRG Co-Director, polymers and peptoids, UCSB
Christine Luscombe	IRG Co-Director and ED, semi-conducting polymers, U. of WA; Professor, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST)
Kathleen Stebe	Deputy Dean, surface and colloid science, Research MRSEC Member U. Penn
Edward Yu	MRSEC Director, solid-state electronics, U. of Texas – Austin
Mark Hersam	MRSEC Director, nanomaterials, Northwestern University
Derrick Swinton	Associate Dean, New Jersey Center for Science, Technology and Mathematics (NCSTM), Kean University (KU)
Cherese Winstead	Dean, CAST, DE State U. (DSU)
Eric Lin	Director of the Material Measurement Laboratory, NIST
Scott Wasserman	Associate R&D Director & Intellectual Capital Manager, Dow Chemical; UD Affiliated Professor in Chemical & Biomolecular Eng.; Co-teaches (CHEG 600/MSEG 630 with Epps/A. Kloxin)
Christoph Weder	Executive Director & Professor, functional polymers, Adolph Merkle Institute at the University of Fribourg; International PI of NSF PIRE with L. Korley
Jan Vermant	Head of Department, colloidal suspensions, experimental methods development, ETH Zürich, Dept. Of Materials