Prof. Gartner
Bio
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.
Awards
Stabler Award for Excellence in Teaching, Lehigh University, 2024
Woody Faculty Fellow, Georgia Tech School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, 2022-2023
DARPA Riser, DARPA Forward Conference Series, 2022
Finalist, APS Division of Polymer Physics Frank J. Padden Jr. Award, 2019
1st Place, AIChE Area 8A Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research Symposium, 2018
Fraser and Shirley Russell Teaching Fellowship, University of Delaware, 2018
1st Place, AIChE MESD Graduate Student Poster Competition, 2017
Honorable Mention, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program, 2015
Robert L. Pigford Fellowship, University of Delaware, 2014
President’s Quality Award, Applied Materials, Inc., 2012