Robert (Bob) Graham is the Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation Materials Research Science and Engineering Center based at Harvard University. Bob is a trained physicist. He enjoys playing basketball and volleyball and is an expert at magic tricks. He is originally from Iowa.
Kathryn Hollar is the Director of Community Engagement and Diversity Outreach for the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering & Applied Sciences. She received her PhD in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University and BS degrees in Chemical Engineering and English from North Carolina State University. She works with teachers and students of all ages to increase public engagement in science and engineering.
Jennifer Lewis is the Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and a Core Faculty Member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. Jennifer has made pioneering contributions to the programmable assembly of functional, structural, and living matter. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Inventors, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has co-founded four startups and currently serves on multiple Scientific Advisory Boards.
Angie Miller is the Lecture Demonstrator for the Department of Chemistry at Princeton University. She has been a chemical demonstrator for fifteen years, and was previously at Ohio State University. In addition to classroom demonstrations and special events in Frick Laboratory, she brings demo shows and hands-on activities to schools and libraries throughout Mercer County. She has the coolest job ever.
Sonia Natalias is the Education Outreach Coordinator for the Princeton Center of Complex Materials, at Princeton University. She is originally from Spain and has studied in London, UK and Paris, France. In addition to her international administrative skills, Sonia holds a certification as a Recovery Coach.
Janine Nunes is the Director of Education Outreach for the Princeton Center for Complex Materials. She is also a Research Scholar and lecturer in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and Chemical & Biological Engineering, respectively. She received her PhD in chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and BS and MSc degrees from Morgan State University. In her role at PCCM, she works on developing and implementing educational programs in materials science for students, teachers, and the public. Janine is originally from Trinidad and Tobago.
Daniel Rosenberg is part of the talented lecture demonstration team in Harvard's Science Center whose creativity is on display each day in these lecture halls to elucidate the principles of science. Daniel Rosenberg is a 1984 Harvard College graduate and a chemist. Daniel has also applied his passion for science in other venues such as the annual Ig Nobel Ceremony held on campus.
Susan Schmidt is part of the Lecture Demonstrations team at Harvard University. Before starting at Harvard in 2023, she was a chemistry teacher at Somerville High School (MA) for fourteen years. Her undergraduate degree is in chemistry from Princeton, and she has a master's degree in teaching and a master's degree in chemistry from Tufts University. She has always enjoyed doing demonstrations for young people and developing new demonstrations. In her spare time, she likes to garden, bike, and play the piano.
Howard Stone holds degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of California at Davis and Caltech. He joined Harvard in 1989 and moved to Princeton University in 2009. His research is in the areas of fluid dynamics, materials science, and applied mathematics. He enjoys fundamentals of science and engineering, teaching, and the challenge of thinking about real-world problems.
Fernando Temprano-Coleto is a postdoc in the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University. He completed his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at UC Santa Barbara, and is originally from Madrid, Spain. Fernando's research focuses on fluid dynamics for applications in sustainability, including the separation of microplastics, the remediation of soil pollutants, and the development of improved methods to extract minerals from brines.
Katie Wu is a fifth-year graduate student in the department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. She received her Sc.B. in Mechanical Engineering from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. At Princeton, Katie studies fluid mechanics.