Professor Craig J. Hawker, University of California, Santa Barbara
S.G. Mudd Building
Stanford University
“The Power of Organic Chemistry in Materials”
About the Seminar
The orthogonal functionalization of polymeric materials is a promising design strategy for the “bottom-up” fabrication of nanostructured systems. In synthesizing these functional nanostructures, the molecular characteristics and functional group placement within the chemical building blocks dictate properties, assembly and ultimate use. These features will be illustrated with examples ranging from new strategies for the fabrication of nanostructured particles to novel hydrogels and surface coating inspired by marine organisms.
About the Speaker
Craig J. Hawker is the director of the California Nanosystems Institute, Dow Materials Institute and Co-Director of the Materials Research Lab at the University of California Santa Barbara. He holds the Alan and Ruth Heeger Chair in Interdisciplinary Science and is the Clarke Professor within CNSI. Craig is a member of the Materials Department and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCSB and came to UCSB in 2004 after eleven years as a Research Staff Member at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA.
He received his undergraduate degree in Chemistry from the University of Queensland, Australia. After graduating, Craig went to the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom to study the biosynthesis of Vitamin B12 under Prof. Sir A. R. Battersby. Upon finishing his doctorate, Craig ventured to the United States to do his post-doctoral work with Professor J.M.J. Frechet at Cornell University.
Craig began his professional career in 1990 as a Queen Elizabeth II Research fellow at the University of Queensland before being hired by IBM in 1993 to work at the Almaden Research Center. In 2001, he became an Honorary Professor of Chemistry at the University of Queensland.
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