Principal Investigator


Robert A. Riggleman

Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Education:

  • B.S. Engineering, University of South Carolina, 2002
  • Ph.D. Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007

Postdoctoral training:

  • Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007-2008
  • Chemical Engineering, University of California-Santa Barbara, 2009-2010

Current PhD Students


Austin Meng

Mesoscale simulations of liquid crystalline diblock copolymers

ajm1428obfuscate@seas.upenn.edu

Colin Gillespie

Self-assembly of multiblock ionomers

colinhgobfuscate@seas.upenn.edu

Trevor Devine

Thermodynamics of highly confined polymer blend nanocomposites

devinetrobfuscate@seas.upenn.edu

Samuel Layding

Dynamics of molecular transport through glassy polymer systems

slaydingobfuscate@seas.upenn.edu

Gabriel Vega Bellido

Multiscale liquid crystal simulations

gvegobfuscate@seas.upenn.edu

Dongqi Zhao

dongqizobfuscate@seas.upenn.edu

Conor Luppnow

Energy landscapes of glassy systems

cluppnowobfuscate@seas.upenn.edu

Yerim Byun

Complex coacervates

yeribyunobfuscate@seas.upenn.edu

Alumni


Christian Tabedzki, Ph.D.

Research Software Engineer at Princeton Neuroscience Institute

Ph.D. Alum

Amruthesh T, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Associate, NIST

Ph.D. Alum

Zuzanna M. Jedlinska

PhD Student

Computational study of complex-coacervation in polypeptide solutions

Entao Yang, Ph.D.

Data Scientist, Air Liquide

Ph.D. Alum

Tianren Zhang, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Delaware

Ph.D. Alum

Emily Lin, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Texas at Austin

Ph.D. Alum

Ziyu Ye, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Delaware

Ph.D. Alum

Robert Ivancic, Ph.D.

NRC Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Ph.D. Alum

Hyun (Jennifer) Hwang, Ph.D.

Senior Data Scientist, Forcepoint

Ph.D. Alum

Jason Koski, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Sandia National Labs

Ph.D. Alum

Ben Lindsay, Ph.D.

Data Scientist, C.H. Robinson

Ph.D. Alum

Huikuan (George) Chao, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering

Ph.D. Alum

Amit Shavit, Ph.D.

Principal Data Scientist, Fidelity Investments

Ph.D. Alum

Tao Wei, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Howard University

Postdoctoral Fellow Alum

Jing Cao, Ph.D.

Data Scientist, Showtime Networks

Postdoctoral Fellow Alum

Ramalingam Kailasham, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University

M.S. Alum

Eric Pao, M.S.

Decision Analytics Manager, ZS

M.S. Alum

Robert Tannenbaum, M.S.

Ph.D. student, Columbia University

M.S. Alum

Shunshun Liu, M.S.

Ph.D. Student, University of Virginia

M.S. Alum

Yuwei Zhang, M.S.

Ph.D. Student, Penn State University

M.S. Alum

Christophe Lutz

System Architect, Thales

REACT Visiting Scholar Alum

Lauren Walters

Ph.D. Student, Northwestern University

REACT Visiting Scholar Alum

Michelle Sorkin, Ph.D.

Staff Scientist, Berkeley Lights

Undergraduate Alum

Brett Hagberg, M.S.

Undergraduate Alum

Mavis Athene U Chen

Undergraduate Alum

Han Zhang

PhD Student

Simulation of polymer networks

Anastasia Neuman

PhD Student

Thermodynamics of highly confined polymer blend nanocomposites

Ian Graham

Data Scientist at Coinbase

Interplay of structure and dynamics in glassy systems