Tetsu Ouchi, Ph.D.

Professional Appointments and Education

2024 - present: Assistant Professor, Cain Department of Chemical Engineering

Louisiana State University

2019 - 2024: Postdoctoral Associate, Chemistry Department

Duke University

Advisor - Stephen L. Craig

2019: Ph.D. in Polymer Science and Engineering

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Advisor - Ryan C. Hayward (currently University of Colorado Boulder)

2012: M.S. in Engineering (Mechanical Engineering)

Keio University, Japan

Advisor - Atsushi Hotta

2010: B.S. in Engineering (Mechanical Engineering)

Keio University, Japan

Advisor - Atsushi Hotta

Biography

Tetsu Ouchi was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. He received his B.S. in Engineering in 2010 from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Keio University, Japan, where he was awarded the "Hatakeyama Prize" for the 2nd highest grade in the department by the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers. He continued his studies at Keio University and received his M.S. in Engineering in 2012 from the Department of Mechanical Engineering. During his time at Keio University, he studied the fundamental relationship between mechanical/rheological properties and microstructures of stereoregular polymers under the guidance of Professor Atsushi Hotta. For his thesis work, he received the "Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research" award from the American Chemical Society. Through his studies, he was fascinated by polymer materials and decided to pursue his Ph.D. at the Department of Polymer Science and Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2013. He studied the mechanical instabilities of soft elastic substrates with Professor Ryan C. Hayward. During his Ph.D., he was awarded "3rd place for the 2017 Journal of Polymer Science poster prize" by the American Physical Society. After completing his Ph.D. in 2019, he followed his curiosity in a smaller length scale, chemistry, and began postdoctoral work with Professor Stephen L. Craig in the Department of Chemistry at Duke University. He worked on the synthesis and characterization of polymeric material systems leveraging mechanochemistry. For his postdoctoral work, he received the "2023 Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) Future Faculty Honoree" by the American Chemical Society and the "3rd Place Poster Award" at the Triangle Soft Matter Workshop. He joined the Cain Department of Chemical Engineering at Louisiana State University as an Assistant Professor in 2024.

When he is not in the lab, he enjoys hanging out with his family and friends, hiking, watching/playing sports, or watching TV shows and movies.

Honors and Awards

2024 Materials Chemistry Horizon Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry: Stephanie L Kwolek Prize by the Royal Society of Chemistry (2024): worked as one of the NSF Center for the Chemistry of Molecularly Optimized Networks (MONET) team members
2023 Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) Future Faculty Honoree by the American Chemical Society at the ACS Fall 2023 Meeting (2023)
3rd Place Poster Award for the research at the Triangle Soft Matter Workshop (2023)
The 2017 Journal of Polymer Science poster prize (3rd place in APS DPOLY poster competition) by the American Physical Society at the APS March Meeting (2017)
Exempted from returning the finance loan from the Japan Student Services Organization for excellent achievements and high grades (2012)
Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research by the American Chemical Society at 241st ACS National Meeting & Exposition (2011)
Keio Graduate Scholarship by Keio University for two consecutive years (2010-2012)
Hatakeyama Prize for the 2nd highest grades in mechanical engineering, Keio University, by the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1 of 2 (out of 166 candidates) (2010)

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