Thomas Gartner is an Assistant Professor with the department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Lehigh University. He joined Lehigh in August 2023. 

Gartner was previously an Assistant Professor in the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His computational and experimental research experience spans polymer physics, bio-inspired nanomaterials assembly, water phase behavior, computational method development, and semiconductor manufacturing.

He earned his B.S. with Honors from the University of California, Berkeley and Ph.D. from the University of Delaware, both in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. His postdoctoral research was in the Department of Chemistry at Princeton University.