Faculty directly active in the academic administration of the program:

Professor Gareth McKinley, PPST Program Director
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
(617) 258-0754, gareth@mit.edu
Non-Newtonian fluid dynamics, polymer processing, viscoelasticity, flow stability, extensional rheology & filament stretching.

Professor Daniel Blankschtein
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
(617) 253-4594, dblank@mit.edu
Statistical mechanics, thermodynamics and physical chemistry of complex fluids and micellar solutions.

Professor Robert E. Cohen
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
(617) 253-3777, recohen@mit.edu
Physics and chemistry of polymers; polymer surfaces/interfaces; Structure-property relationships.

Professor Patrick S. Doyle
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
(617) 253-4534, pdoyle@mit.edu
Microrheology, Biophysics, Microfluidics Separations, Polymer Physics, Transport Phenomena

Professor Karen K. Gleason
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
(617) 253-5066, kkg@mit.edu
Chemical Vapor Deposition, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.

Professor Paula T. Hammond
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
(617) 258-7577, hammond@mit.edu
Macromolecular Design and Synthesis, Functionalized Polymers, Optical Properties of Polymers, Liquid Crystalline Polymeric Materials

Professor Darrell J. Irvine
DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
(617) 452-4174, djirvine@mit.edu
Biomaterials surfaces, Tissue engineering/complex materials, Polymer-biopolymer nanosystems, Bioengineering of the immune system

Professor Christine Ortiz
DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
(617) 452-3084, cortiz@mit.edu
Macromolecular systems, nanomechanics, structure-property relationships, biomimetic materials design.

Professor Michael F. Rubner
DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
(617) 253-4477, rubner@mit.edu
Polymers with Novel Electrical, optical, and magnetic properties; self-assembled monolayers.

Professor Gregory C. Rutledge
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
(617) 253-0171, rutledge@mit.edu
Polymer Physics, Thermodynamics of bulk polymers molecular modeling.

Professor Timothy Swager
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
(617) 253-4423, tswager@mit.edu
Synthesis and characterization of electronically and optically active polymers and polymer sensory materials.

Professor Edwin L. Thomas
DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
(617) 253-6901, elt@mit.edu
Electron Microscopy, angle X-ray diffraction, materials and interface characterization.

Professor Krystyn J. Van Vliet
DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
(617) 253-3315, krystyn@mit.edu
Mechanically coupled material systems, mechanical properties of nanoscale polymer films, chemomechanical coupling in living cells.

Professor Ioannis Yannas
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING/DMSE
(617) 253-4469, yannas@mit.edu
Biodegradable polymeric templates for organ regeneration; design and clinical testing of artificial skin.

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PPST FACULTY AFFILIATES
faculty associated with the program:

Professor Robert C. Armstrong
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
(617) 253-4581, rca@mit.edu
Polymers fluid mechanics, rheology, polymer processing, kinetic theory and rheology, applied mathematics.

Professor George B. Benedek
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
(617) 253-4828, gbb@mit.edu
Self-association and phase transitions in solutions of biological and synthetic macromolecules.

Professor Mary C. Boyce
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
(617) 253-2342, mcboyce@mit.edu
Mechanical behavior of solids; solid phase forming of polymers.

Professor Linda G. Griffith
DIVISION OF BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING
(617) 253-0013, griff@mit.edu
Biomedical and Biochemical Engineering.

Professor Robert S. Langer
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
(617) 253-3107, rlanger@mit.edu
Polymeric, controlled drug delivery systems.

Professor Keith A. Nelson
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
(617) 253-1423, kanelson@mit.edu
Femtosecond-millisecond time resolved spectroscopy of polymers and other viscoelastic media.

Professor ChoKyun Rha
BIOMATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING LABORATORY
(617) 253-3493, ckrha@mit.edu
Rheology of Biopolymers; structure-property-function relationship in biopolymers.

Professor David K. Roylance
DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
(617) 253-3309, roylance@mit.edu
Physics and mechanics of polymer deformation and fracture; environmental resistance of polymers.

Professor Richard R. Schrock
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
(617) 253-1596, rrs@mit.edu
Ring-opening metathesis polymerization, block copolymers, and semiconductor clusters.

Professor Robert J. Silbey
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
(617) 253-1470, silbey@mit.edu
Electronic structure and optical properties of conjugated polymers.

Professor Nam P. Suh
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
(617) 253-2225, npsuh@mit.edu
Manufacturing design, materials processing, and tribology.