Leadership, Staff, & Partners
Leadership
Thomas H. Epps, III
PI and Director
Professor, CBE & MSE
University of Delaware
thepps@udel.edu
LaShanda Korley
Co-PI and Co-Director
Professor, MSE & CBE
University of Delaware
lkorley@udel.edu
Gwendolyn Gregory, PhD, MBA
Executive Director
University of Delaware
gregoryg@udel.edu
Co-Leads & Directors
Darrin Pochan
Co-Lead of IRG 1
Professor, MSE
University of Delaware
pochan@udel.edu
April Kloxin
Co-Lead of IRG 1
Associate Professor, CBE & MSE
University of Delaware
akloxin@udel.edu
Joshua Zide
Co-Lead of IRG 2
Department Chair, MSE
University of Delaware
zide@udel.edu
Matt Doty
Co-Lead of IRG 2, Facilities Director
Professor, MSE
University of Delaware
doty@udel.edu
Education Director
Education Director
University of Delaware
Staff
Chang Xu
Financial Analyst
CHARM & CPI
changxu@udel.edu
Joseph Madanat
Program Coordinator
CHARM & CRiSP
jmadanat@udel.edu
Scott Stinner
Safety Coordinator
MSE
stinner@udel.edu
Sarah Dodd
Assistant to the Director
CHARM & CRiSP
sadodd@udel.edu
Nolan Petrich
Peptide Synthesis and Instrumentation Specialist
CHARM PPMC
npetrich@udel.edu
Department Abbreviations
CBE – Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
MSE – Materials Science & Engineering
Center Abbreviations
CPI – Center for Plastics Innovation
CRiSP – Center for Research in Soft-matter & Polymers
Education and Outreach Partners
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
Internal and External Advisory Boards
Internal Advisory Board (IAB)
COE – College of Engineering; CAS – College of Arts & Sciences
| Kelvin Lee | Vice President for Research, Scholarship and Innovation |
| Mark Mirotznik | Associate Dean for Research and Entrepreneurship, COE |
| Murray Johnston | Associate Dean for Natural Sciences, CAS |
| Jill Higginson | Associate Dean for Graduate and Post Graduate Education, COE |
| LaRuth McAfee | Senior Assistant Dean, Graduate College |
| Dion Vlachos | Director of DE Energy Institute |
| Marianthi Ierapetritou | Gore Centennial Professor at UD and former Associate VP for Promotion of Women in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics at Rutgers U., COE |
| Edward Nowak | Chairperson for Department of Physics & Astronomy, CAS |
External Advisory Board (EAB)
| 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 |