Professor Bradley F. Chmelka

Professor Chmelka received his Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley in Chemical Engineering in 1990 for research on molecular and metal clustering in zeolite catalysts under the supervision of Professors Clayton Radke and Eugene Petersen. He was an NSF Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Chemistry at UC-Berkeley with Professor Alexander Pines and an NSF-NATO Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut f ür Polymerforschung in Mainz, Germany with Professor Hans Wolfgang Spiess.  He joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1992.  He has received a David and Lucile Packard Foundation Award, a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Award. He currently serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal Chemistry of Materials and is a member of the scientific advisory boards of the Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung in Mainz, Germany and the Chemical Sciences Program of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence-Berkeley National Laboratory.