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Bios of Nominees for 2005-2007 Executive Committee |
| President | Andrew M. Kraynik |
| Vice President | Robert L. Powell |
| Robert K. Prud’homme | |
| Secretary | A. Jeffrey Giacomin |
| Treasurer | Montgomery T. Shaw |
| Editor | John F. Brady |
| Member-at-Large | Daniel J. Klingenberg |
| (elect three) | Timothy P. Lodge |
| Charles P. Lusignan | |
| Eric Stefan G. Shaqfeh | |
| Lynn M. Walker | |
Nominee for PresidentAndrew M. Kraynik
Service to the Society has included: Chair of the Membership Committee, five terms as Secretary (1989-1999), Editor of the Rheology Bulletin, Meetings Policy Committee, Vice President (2003-2005), and 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 annual meetings, which can be traced to serving as local organizer of the Santa Fe Meeting in 1990. He is currently planning to organize another annual meeting in Santa Fe in 2010. Nominees for Vice PresidentRobert L. Powell
Bob is a long-standing and active member of The Society of Rheology. He was the Local Arrangements Chair for the 1995 meeting in Sacramento. In 1997, he was the Program Chair for the annual meeting in Columbus. He served a term as a member of the Executive Committee (2001-02) where he participated in decisions regarding the Society’s financial affairs, annual meetings, and member recruitment. Over the years, Bob has also served on the Society’s Meetings Committee, Membership Committee and Bingham Award Committee. Bob is currently co-chairing the XVth International Congress on Rheology (2008) with Gerry Fuller. Bob has served UC Davis in many capacities. Since 2002 he has been Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science. From 1996-1999 he was Special Assistant to the Provost. One of his more interesting and challenging positions has been as the Chair of the Planning Committee and the Executive Committee of the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science. Bob has also been a consultant to several companies. Since 1998 he has been one of the principal organizers of the Mars / UC Davis strategic alliance that has built a long term mutually beneficial industry – university collaboration. In a similar vein, since 2002, he has served on the Government – University – Industry Research Roundtable of the National Academies. See also http://www.chms.ucdavis.edu/faculty/powell.php. Robert K. Prud’homme
See also http://chemeng.princeton.edu/html/prudhomme.shtml. Nominee for SecretaryA. Jeffrey Giacomin
See also http://rrc.engr.wisc.edu/faculty/giacomin_alan.html. Nominee for TreasurerMontgomery T. Shaw
Also see http://www.ims.uconn.edu/poly/content/view/40/102/. Nominee for EditorJohn F. Brady
Dr. Brady’s research interests are in the mechanical and transport properties of two-phase materials, especially complex fluids such as biological liquids, colloid dispersions, suspensions, porous media, etc. His research takes a multilevel approach and combines elements of statistical and continuum mechanics to understand how macroscopic behavior emerges from microscale physics. He is particularly noted for the invention of the Stokesian Dynamics technique for simulating the behavior of particles dispersed in a viscous fluid under a wide range of conditions. Dr. Brady has been recognized for his work by several awards, including a Presidential Young Investigator Award, a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, the ASEE Curtis W. McGraw Research and Chemical Engineering Lectureship Awards, the Corrsin and Batchelor lectureships in fluid mechanics, and the Professional Progress Award of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He has held positions as the Juliot-Curie Professor at ESPCI and the J.M. Burgers Professor at Twente University, and currently has a part-time Chair in Applied Physics at Twente University in the Netherlands. Dr. Brady was an associate editor of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics from 1990 to 2005. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. See also http://www.che.caltech.edu/faculty/brady_j/index.html and http://www.me.caltech.edu/faculty/brady.html. Nominees for Member-at-Large (elect three)Daniel J. Klingenberg
Dan has been an active member of The Society of Rheology since starting his academic career. He has chaired numerous sessions at annual meetings, has served on and chaired the Bingham award committee, has served on the Nominations committee, and was the technical program co-chair (with Prof. R. C. Armstrong) for the 1999 Annual Meeting. See also http://www.engr.wisc.edu/che/faculty/klingenberg_daniel.html. Timothy P. Lodge
See also http://www.chem.umn.edu/directory/faculty.lasso?serial=456, http://www.cems.umn.edu/directory/facdetail.php?facid=lodge and http://www1.cems.umn.edu/~lodge/. Charles P. Lusignan
My current research projects are aimed at relating the rheology of polymer systems to their performance in coating and extrusion processes. I have a longstanding interest in studying how the shear and extensional response of materials depends on the amount and type of branching, as well as the interactions between the molecules and/or the particles in the system. I received a B.S. degree in physics from Binghamton University in 1989 and an M.A. in physics from the University of Rochester in 1991. I completed my Ph.D. degree in polymer physics at the University of Rochester in 1996 under the direction of Dr. Ralph H. Colby. After graduation I joined Kodak R&D and have worked there for eight years. In addition to lab work and serving on project teams, I teach the rheology portion of the internal Kodak polymer science class and have also mentored a summer intern. I am a co-author on seven scientific papers, ten Kodak technical reports, and two US patent applications. I have reviewed papers for Macromolecules, the Journal of Rheology, and Rheologica Acta. I regularly attend “The Rheology Meeting” to participate in the SOR’s extensive technical program. I look forward to the open and stimulating discussions between our members at the conference. At this point in my career I would like to do more for the society by serving on the executive committee as a member-at-large. Eric Stefan G. Shaqfeh
See also http://chemeng.stanford.edu/01About_the_Department/03Faculty/Shaqfeh/shaqfeh.html and http://me.stanford.edu/faculty/facultydir/shaqfeh.html. Lynn M. Walker
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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 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 the
structure and behavior of foams from a micromechanics point of view;
topics of interest include the rheology of liquid foam, mechanics of
solid foam, foam drainage, and diffusive coarsening. He has also worked
on polymer processing, non-Newtonian fluid mechanics, and rheometry
(helical screw rheometer).
Bob
Powell is a Professor of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science and a
Professor of Food Science & Technology at the University of California
Davis. Bob received a B.E.S. in mechanics from Johns Hopkins University
in 1972 and a Ph.D. in mechanics and materials science from Hopkins in
1978. He has worked on problems related to rheology and suspension
mechanics for nearly 35 years. Bob’s early work on rheology at Hopkins
under the supervision of Bill Schwarz addressed problems relating to
nonlinear viscoelasticity, extensional flows and biorheology. For his
post-doctoral studies, he moved to McGill University, worked with Stan
Mason and began applying himself to issues of drop dynamics and mixing.
Bob’s first academic position was in the Department of Chemical
Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, where he began to
study the rheology of suspensions of spheres and rodlike particles. In
1984, he moved to his current position at the University of California
Davis, where his research group has worked on a number of problems
relating to suspension rheology of both model and industrially important
systems, on-line monitoring of rheological properties, emulsion
dynamics, the application of magnetic resonance imaging and other
tomographic techniques to study the rheology and flow of complex
liquids, constitutive modeling of suspensions, emulsion dynamics and the
formation and dynamics of microbubbles. Bob has held temporary
appointments at the Swedish Forest Products Research Laboratory and
Sandia National Laboratories. In 1994-95, he served as a Program
Director at the National Science Foundation. 
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 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.
A
member of The Society of Rheology since 1983, Jeffrey Giacomin has
chaired the 
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). Due to be published in 2005
is the 3rd edition of the wellknown textbook Introduction to Polymer
Viscoelasticity, which he is coauthoring with W. J. MacKnight. He is
serving as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and
Electrical Insulation. Recognitions include the SPE International
Award for Research (1998), Engineering Distinguished Professorship
(1999-2001), SPE Fellow (2000), A. T. Dibenedetto Distinguished
Professorship (2002-2004), the SPE International Award (2002), the
Founder's Award of the Polymer Analysis Division of SPE (2004), and the
Chancellor's Research Excellence Award (2004). Monty has served as the
Society's Treasurer since 1997, and has also held the positions of
Secretary and Member-at-Large.
John
F. Brady is the Chevron Professor of Chemical Engineering and Professor
of Mechanical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology. He
received his BS in chemical engineering from the University of
Pennsylvania in 1975 and spent the next year at Cambridge University as
a Churchill Scholar. He received both an MS and PhD in chemical
engineering from Stanford University, the latter in 1981. Following a
postdoctoral year in Paris at the Ecole Superiéure de Physique et de
Chimie Industrielles, he joined the Chemical Engineering department at
MIT. Dr. Brady moved to Caltech in 1985, serving as department chairman
from 1993-1999.
Dan
is an associate professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received a B.S. in Chemical
Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla in 1985, and a Ph.D.
in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois-Urbana in 1991.
Following a one-year postdoc at the University of British Columbia, he
joined the faculty of Chemical (and now Biological) Engineering at the
University of Wisconsin in 1992. He is currently the associate chair of
the Rheology Research Center at the University of Wisconsin. His
research focuses on understanding and controlling the structure and
rheology of particulate suspensions. Specific areas of interest include
electro- and magnetorheological fluids, and flexible fiber suspensions.
He received the NSF CAREER Award in 1995, and has been recognized for
teaching by receiving the UW Polygon Engineering Council Outstanding
Instructor Award three times.
Tim
Lodge was born in Manchester, UK, in 1954, and emigrated to the US in
1968. 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, he was named a McKnight Distinguished University
Professor in 2001, and an Institute of Technology Distinguished
Professor in 2004. He was co-recipient of the 1993 George Taylor Alumni
Award for excellence in research, given by the Institute of Technology,
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.
He was a co-recipient of The Society of Rheology Publication Award in
2003, and in 2004 he received the Polymer Physics Prize from the
American Physical Society, and the Paul Flory Research Award from
POLYCHAR. 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 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 serving on the Council of
the American Physical Society since 2001, and as a Member-at-Large on
the Executive Committee of The Society of Rheology since 2003. 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 190 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.
I
am a Senior Research Scientist at Eastman Kodak Company and co-group
leader of the Analytical Rheology Laboratory in Kodak Research. As an
industrial rheologist, I perform experiments, build structure-property
models, and collaborate with scientists, engineers, and manufacturing
personnel throughout the company. I have also participated in joint
projects with university researchers.
Eric
received his B.S.E. 1981 in Chemical Engineering from Princeton
University (graduated summa cum laude and also received a program degree
in Physics) and his M.S. 1982 and Ph.D. 1986 in Chemical Engineering
from Stanford University under the advice of Prof. Andreas Acrivos;
Thesis title – “The effects of inertia on the bouyancy-driven
convective flow in settling vessels having inclined walls”.
Thereafter, he received the 1986 NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship for
postdoctoral work in the Department of Applied Mathematics and
Theoretical Physics at Cambridge University, England under the advice of
Prof. E. J. Hinch, FRS and Prof. G. K. Batchelor, FRS. He was a Member
of Technical Staff at AT & T Bell Laboratories from 1987-1990. He
accepted the position of Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at
Stanford University 1/90 - 1/95 being promoted to Associate Professor
(w/tenure) 1/95 - 9/99 and then to Professor 9/1/99 - present. More
recently, he received a dual appointment and became Professor of
Mechanical Engineering at Stanford as of 1/2001 as well as the Associate
Chair of Chemical Engineering 9/1/2001-1/1/2005. His professional awards
include the APS Francois N. Frenkiel Award 1989, the NSF Presidential
Young Investigator Award 1990, the David and Lucile Packard Fellowship
in Science and Engineering 1991, the Camile and Henry Dreyfus
Teacher-Scholar Award 1994, the W. M. Keck Foundation Engineering
Teaching Excellence Award 1994, and the 1998 Curtis W. McGraw Award from
the American Society of Engineering Education. His professional
lectureships include the Thiele Lectureship at Notre Dame in 1999, the
Van Ness Lectureship at RPI in 2001, the Merck Distinguished Lectureship
at Rutgers in 2003, the Corrsin Lectureship at Johns Hopkins in 2003 and
the Katz Lectureship at CCNY in 2004. He was also the Hougen Professor
of Chemical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin in 2004. He was
inducted as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2000. He has
been both a plenary lecturer at the SOR meeting (2002) as well as a
keynote speaker at the ICR meeting (2004). He has authored or
co-authored over 100 publications almost entirely in areas associated
with rheology including non-Newtonian fluid mechanics (especially in the
area of elastic instabilities, and turbulent drag reduction),
nonequilibrium polymer statistical dynamics (focusing on single
molecules studies of DNA), and suspension mechanics (particularly of
fiber suspensions and composites). In terms of service to The Society or
Rheology and the rheological community, he has chaired and co-chaired
numerous sessions at various Annual meetings, has served on the
organizing committee for both the ICR and the Pac-Rim Rheology meetings,
served on and chaired the Bingham Award committee, and served as the
Technical Program Chair of the 2005 Annual Meeting in Vancouver.
Lynn
M. Walker is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and both
Chemistry and Materials Science & Engineering (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. 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 Biomedical Engineering to quantify and control the spraying,
spreading and ink-jetting of viscoelastic polymer solutions. Three PhD
students and two MS students have graduated from her research group and
five PhD students and one MS student are currently completing their
theses under her guidance. 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. She acted as the technical co-chair
for the 2001 SOR meeting held in Bethesda MD and as local arrangements
co-chair for the 2003 SOR meeting held in Pittsburgh PA. She currently
serves as “Member-at-large” on the Executive Committee of the SOR.