Nominee for President

Susan J. Muller

Susan J. Muller is currently a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and an Associate Faculty Scientist in the Materials Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She received a B.S.E. in chemical engineering from Princeton University in 1981 and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from M.I.T in 1986. She has worked on problems related to rheology and non-Newtonian fluid mechanics for over 20 years. Susan’s introduction to rheology was through a summer internship at AT&T Bell Laboratories, working with the late Dale Pearson on problems related to the extensional viscosity of polymer melts, followed by doctoral research on contraction flows of viscoelastic liquids with Bob Armstrong and Bob Brown at M.I.T. After graduate school, she worked on non-Newtonian flows relevant to the oilfield services industry at Schlumberger Cambridge Research in Cambridge, England. From 1987-1991, Susan was a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ, and worked on instabilities in flows of polymeric solutions and on designing rheological characterization techniques for fiber optic cable filling compounds and for molding compounds for microelectronic packaging. Susan joined the chemical engineering faculty at Berkeley in 1991; her research group at Berkeley has worked on a range of problems related to the rheology of complex fluids.

Susan is a long-standing and active member of The Society of Rheology, and served as Chair of the Education Committee and short-course organizer from 1998-2001. She has served on the SOR Executive Committee since 1999, where she has participated in discussions and planning related to managing the Society’s financial affairs, publications, future annual meetings, and member recruitment. Susan is currently Vice President of the Society.

Her current research interests include viscoelastic instabilities in Taylor-Couette flows, the role of polymer-solvent interactions in determining macroscopic flow behavior, shear-induced migration of polymers in dilute solution, and the behavior of biological macromolecules in microfluidic devices. Examples of some recent research projects, selected publications, and a list of “Muller group” members and alumni can be found at her research group website: http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/sjmgrp/. At Berkeley, Susan served for several years as the Graduate Admissions Chair, and has recently completed a two-year term as Vice Chair for Graduate Studies. She has received a number of awards for teaching and research, including the Berkeley College of Chemistry Teaching Award and the Journal of Rheology publication award.

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Nominees for Vice President

Andrew M. Kraynik

Andy received a BS in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1972. He then attended Princeton University and wrote a PhD thesis on “wall slip” under the supervision of William R. Schowalter. That experience stimulated a lifelong interest in rheology and consistent involvement in The Society of Rheology. Andy has attended every meeting of the Society since graduating from Princeton in 1976 and joining Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His research has focused on foam behavior—the rheology of liquid foam, the mechanics of solid foam, structure, drainage, processing—from a micromechanics point of view. He has also worked in polymer processing, non-Newtonian fluid mechanics, and rheometry (helical screw rheometer).

Service to the Society has included: Chair of the Membership Committee, five terms as Secretary (1989-1999), Editor of the Rheology Bulletin, Member of the Meetings Policy Committee, Chair of the Site Selection Committee for the International Congress on Rheology in 2008, SOR Representative to the US National Committee for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (1992-2000), and SOR Delegate to the International Committee on Rheology (2001-present).

In 2001, Andy received the Distinguished Service Award of the Society for his strong commitment to the success of the annual meeting, which can be traced to serving as local organizer of the Santa Fe Meeting in 1990. He considers that experience to be a personal milestone. Andy plans to continue serving the Society in whatever capacity he can.

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L. Gary Leal

I was born in a small town in the state of Washington. I am a chemical engineer, having received a BS degree from the University of Washington in 1965, and a PhD from Stanford University in 1969. My PhD was supervised by Prof Andreas Acrivos. I then had the opportunity to spend nearly two years in Cambridge (UK) working with George Batchelor in the general area of suspension rheology (where I also met one of George’s PhD students, John Hinch, with whom I subsequently published a number of papers on the effects of Brownian motion on the rheology of dilute suspensions). I was a faculty member for approximately 19 years at Caltech, and moved in 1989 to UCSB where I am currently a Professor in the departments of Chemical Engineering and Materials.

During my career, I have worked with PhD and postdoctoral students on a number of problem areas involving the dynamics and rheology of suspensions, emulsions and blends, polymeric liquids (both dilute and entangled), and LCPs. Because I have had excellent students over the years, our work has led to a number of recognitions for me. Most notable among these are the Bingham Medal, the Fluid Dynamics Prize of the APS, the Colburn and Walker Awards of the AIChE and election in 1987 to the NAE.

I have had the opportunity to have served as a department chair for 9 years at UCSB, and I have been involved in the editorial process for several journals, most notably Physics of Fluids, where I am currently one of the two editors of the journal. These experiences have given me some insight into “the process of facilitation” that is known as “management” in the academic community, and also considerable knowledge and involvement in the evolving process of scientific publication, and its future in the electronic age.

I have been involved in the organization of scientific meetings (program chair twice for SOR Meetings; program chair for the US National Congress of Mechanics; one of two fluids members of the international papers committee for the ICTAM Congresses in Kyoto and Chicago; chair of the 5th Workshop on Numerical Methods for Viscoelastic Flows (Lake Arrowhead) and currently a member of the selection committee for IUTAM Symposia). Finally, I have been involved in a number of different types of effort to encourage international scientific cooperation and to promote science and engineering to the general public. For example, I am currently the representative of the International Committee on Rheology to IUTAM, I am a member of the Working Party on non-Newt. Fluid Mechanics and Rheology for IUTAM, and I am a member of the US National Committee for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (having served as chair from 1994-1996).

Additional information can be found in the faculty pages of our departmental website at http://www.chemengr.ucsb.edu.

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Robert K. Prud’homme

Robert K. Prud’homme is a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Director of the Engineering Biology Program at Princeton University. He received his BS at Stanford University and his PhD from the University of Wisconsin at Madison under Professor Bob Bird. He has served on the executive committees of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Materials Science Division and the U.S. Society of Rheology. He is chair of the Technical Advisory Board for Material Science Research for Dow Chemical Company, which directs Dow’s materials research programs, and he was on the Board of Directors of Rheometric Scientific Inc., the leading manufacturer of rheological instrumentation. His awards include the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, Princeton School of Engineering and Applied Science Outstanding Teaching Award, and the Sydney Ross Lectureship at RPI. He has been the organizer and Chair of the Gordon Conference on Ion Containing Polymers, and the Society of Petroleum Engineers Forum on Stimulation Fluid Rheology, in addition to organizing numerous sessions at AIChE, ACS, and SOR meetings. His research interests include rheology and self-assembly of complex fluids. System of interest are biopolymer solutions and gels, surfactant mesophases, and polymer/surfactant mixtures where weak molecular-level interactions can be used to tune macroscopic bulk properties and phase behavior.

Website: http://www.princeton.edu/~chemical/html/prudhomme.html

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Nominee for Secretary

A. Jeffrey Giacomin

A member of The Society of Rheology since 1983, Jeffrey Giacomin has chaired the Rheology Research Center (RRC) at the University of Wisconsin in Madison since 1996. Giacomin chaired the Local Arrangements Committee when the RRC hosted the Society’s 71st Annual Meeting in 1999. He also chaired the Society’s Membership Committee (1989-1997), and served on the Executive Committee as Member-At-Large (1995-1997), and as Secretary (1999-2000, 2001-2002, 2003-present). Professor Giacomin has also served as Associate Editor for Finance (1998-2000) of the Journal of Rheology, and as its Associate Editor for Business (2000-present). Giacomin has also been appointed to the Publications Services Subcommittee of the American Institute of Physics, (1998-2000, 2001-present). Giacomin has also served on the Ad-Hoc Committee on Constitutional Reform (1997-1998). An experimentalist, Giacomin’s research focuses on nonlinear viscoelasticity and its role in plastics processing.

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Nominee for Treasurer

Montgomery T. Shaw

After completing B.Ch.E. and M.S. degrees in chemical engineering at Cornell University, Dr. Shaw moved south to Princeton University, where he studied under the late Professor Tobolsky, obtaining his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1970. For the next six years he was associated with the R&D department of Union Carbide Corporation in Bound Brook, NJ. In 1977 Dr. Shaw joined the faculty of the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Connecticut. At the nearby Institute of Materials Science he conducts research in the areas of polymer solution and blend thermodynamics, polymer rheology and processing, and the aging characteristics of polymers. He is co-author of the monographs Polymer-Polymer Miscibility (Academic, 1979) and Computer Programs for Rheologists (Hanser, 1994) and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation. Recognitions include the SPE International Award for Research (1998), Engineering Distinguished Professorship (1999), SPE Fellow (2000), A. T. Dibenedetto Distinguished Professorship (2002), the SPE International Award (2002) and the Chancellor's Research Excellence Award (2003). Also see: www.ims.uconn.edu/polymer/faculty/shaw.htm.

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Nominee for Editor

Morton M. Denn

Morton Denn received a B.S.E. in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University in 1961, and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1964. He was a member of the Chemical Engineering faculty of the University of Delaware from 1965 to 1981, and of the University of California, Berkeley, from 1981 through 1999, where he served as Department Chair from 1991 to 1994. He also served as Program Leader for Polymers (1983 – 99) and Head of Materials Chemistry (1995 – 98) in the Materials Sciences Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is currently the Albert Einstein Professor of Science and Engineering and Director, The Benjamin Levich Institute for Physico-Chemical Hydrodynamics, at City College of CUNY.

Professor Denn has served as Editor of the Journal of Rheology since 1995. He was Editor of the AIChE Journal from 1985 to 1991. His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship (1971); a Fulbright Lectureship (1979); the Bingham Medal of The Society of Rheology (1986); the Professional Progress (1977), William H. Walker (1984), Warren K. Lewis (1998), and Institute Lectureship (1999) Awards of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers; the Chemical Engineering Lectureship Award of the American Society for Engineering Education (1993); and a D.Sc. hon. causa from the University of Minnesota (2001). He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1986 and to the American Academy of Arts and Science in 2001.

Professor Denn’s current research focuses on the rheology of polymer blends, interfacial mechanics between flexible and rigid polymers, mechanics of liquid crystals, transport near surfaces, and polymer flow instabilities.

Website: http://lisgi1.engr.ccny.cuny.edu/mdcv.htm

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Nominees for Member-at-Large (elect three)

Wesley R. Burghardt

I am a professor of Chemical Engineering at Northwestern University, where I have been for the past 13 years. I was introduced to rheology through undergraduate and master's research with Tony McHugh at Illinois, and completed my PhD with Gerry Fuller at Stanford. My group concentrates on experimental studies of the rheology of polymers and other complex fluids. In the area of flexible polymer rheology, my students have developed novel strategies for flow birefringence measurements of stresses in both simple flows (rheometry) and complex flows (experimental non-Newtonian fluid mechanics). My group also has long-standing interest in the rheology of more highly ordered complex fluids, including liquid crystalline polymers, block copolymers, surfactants, blends and emulsions. These studies have led to development of extensive capabilities for in situ x-ray scattering, taking advantage of the nearby Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Lab.

I have been an active participant in the SOR and its meetings since my graduate student days. I have frequently organized & chaired technical sessions at meetings, and have just completed my third and final year of service on the Bingham award committee. The SOR annual meeting is the highlight of my conference calendar due to both the strong and relevant technical program and unusually high sense of collegiality within the Society. These are the qualities of the SOR which I am eager to sustain and support through service on the executive board.

See more:
     http://www.chem-eng.northwestern.edu/Faculty/burghard.html
     http://pubweb.northwestern.edu/~wesley/

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Robert J. Butera

Bob is currently a research supervisor at DuPont Performance Coatings’ Marshall Laboratory in Philadelphia. Upon joining DuPont in 1990, he assumed responsibility for operation of the Rheological Measurements Lab in the Marshall Lab Analytical and Physical Measurements group. Most of his research during this period has been aimed at understanding the rheological behavior and microstructure of concentrated colloidal systems, especially those with attractive interactions. Prior to joining DuPont, Bob was a post-doctoral fellow at Exxon Corporate Research Laboratory. There he studied the rheology of model polyolefin melts and blends. Bob received a Ph.D. in Macromolecular Science from Case Western Reserve University, and B.S. and M.S. Degrees in Polymer Science from The Pennsylvania State University. He has served on the Bingham Medal and Education Committees of The Society of Rheology and was the Technical Program Co-chair for the 73rd Annual Meeting of The Society of Rheology in Washington, D.C., 2001.

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Nino Grizzuti

Nino Grizzuti graduated in Chemical Engineering at the University of Naples in 1981. In 1985 he earned a Master Degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Minnesota (USA). After his PhD in Naples, he started his academic career at the Engineering School of the University of Naples as an Assistant Professor in 1983. Currently, he is full Professor in the same University at the Department of Chemical Engineering. Since 2000, he has been heading the PhD program in Chemical Engineering, Materials Engineering and Production Engineering at the University of Naples.

His research activity has developed mainly in the field of flow properties of polymeric systems and complex fluids, including:

• Molecular modeling of polymer solutions and melts
• Diffusion of polymers in micropores
• Rheology and rheo-optics of liquid crystalline polymers
• Rheology and rheo-optics of polymer blends
• Flow-induced crystallization in thermoplastic polymers
• Rheology of detergents and other associated liquid

The last four topics constitute the main stream of his present research.

His teaching activity includes academic experience (Chemical Process Dynamics and Control, Thermodynamics, Transport Phenomena, Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, Rheology and Processing) as well as professionally-oriented training (mainly Rheology and Transport Phenomena).

Nino Grizzuti is author of more than 60 publications. Most of them have been published in international Journals or in internationally peer-reviewed books or meeting proceedings. Currently, he is also editor of Journal of Rheology and of Journal of Polymer Engineering.

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Timothy P. Lodge

Tim Lodge was born in Manchester, UK, in 1954, and emigrated to the US in 1968. He was naturalized in 1979. After graduating from Harvard in 1975 with a B.A. cum laude in Applied Mathematics, he began graduate research in Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin, working with Professor John Schrag. Following his PhD, completed in December of 1980, Tim spent 20 months as a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at NIST, collaborating with Dr. Charles Han. Since 1982 he has been on the Chemistry faculty at Minnesota, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1988 and Professor in 1991. In 1995 he also became Professor of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, and in 2001 he was named a McKnight Distinguished University Professor. He was co-recipient of the 1993 George Taylor Alumni Award for excellence in research, given by the Institute of Technology at the University of Minnesota, and in 1994, he was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He received the Arthur K. Doolittle Award from the Polymeric Materials Science & Engineering Division of the American Chemical Society in 1998. From 1994-2000 Tim served as Regional Editor for Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, and since 2001 he is the Editor of Macromolecules. He is currently serving, or has served, on the Editorial Boards for Macromolecules, Journal of Chemical Physics, Journal of Polymer Science, Polymer Physics Edition, International Journal of Polymer Analysis and Characterization, and Critical Reviews in Analytical Chemistry. He has served as Chair of the Division of High Polymer Physics, American Physical Society (1997-8), and as Chair of the Gordon Research Conferences on Colloidal, Macromolecular and Polyelectrolyte Solutions (1998) and Polymer Physics (2000). He has been a visiting professor at Kyoto University, Universität Mainz, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the University of Leeds. He has authored or co-authored over 150 refereed articles in the field of polymer science, and advised or co-advised 30 PhD theses. His research interests center on the structure and dynamics of polymer liquids, including solutions, melts, blends, and copolymers, with particular emphases on rheology, diffusion, and scattering techniques.

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Lynn M. Walker

Lynn M. Walker is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry (by courtesy) at Carnegie Mellon University. She holds a B.S. degree from the University of New Hampshire and a Ph.D. from the University of Delaware, both in chemical engineering. She was an NSF International Postdoctoral Fellow at the Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven, Belgium before joining Carnegie Mellon University in 1997. Her research focuses on quantifying the coupling between flow behavior and flow-induced microstructure in complex fluids. Her laboratory contains several novel devices for probing fluid structure under mixed flow fields. Current research focuses in two directions; quantifying the influence of flow on self-assembled nanostructures and controlling interfacial flows through addition of fluid elasticity. In the first area, her group is characterizing the link between physicochemical properties, structure and rheology in wormlike and rodlike micellar systems. In the second area, she is working with collaborators in Physics and Mechanical Engineering to quantify and control the spraying, spreading and ink-jetting of viscoelastic polymer solutions. Three PhD students and one MS student have graduated from her research group and four PhD students are currently completing their theses under her guidance. She has been a member of The Society of Rheology since 1993, has chaired several sessions at annual meetings of the society, was one of the two technical chairs for the 2001 annual meeting and is currently one of the local arrangements chairs for the 2003 annual meeting to be held in Pittsburgh PA. She is the recipient of the DuPont Young Faculty Research Grant and an NSF CAREER award. She has been recognized for teaching by receiving the Kun Li Award for Excellence in Education from the Department of Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in both 2000 and 2003.

CMU faculty website: http://www.cheme.cmu.edu/who/faculty/walker.html

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