Keynote Speakers

Executive Vice President and Provost, Stony Brook University

Dr. Paul M. Goldbart is a leading expert in the areas of quantum materials and soft condensed matter and a distinguished theoretical physicist. He was named executive vice president and provost of Stony Brook University in March 22, 2021. Goldbart was previously Dean of the College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), where he was also the Robert E. Boyer Chair in Natural Sciences and Mary Ann Rankin Leadership Chair for UT Austin’s College of Natural Sciences. He earned a diploma in mathematical physics and PhD in physics from Imperial College London, an MS in physics from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a BA in physics and theoretical physics from Cambridge University.

Professor and Director, Levich Institute, CCNY

Professor Morris has served as the Chair of Chemical Engineering at CCNY (2013-2016) and acting director of the Levich Institute (2015) before being appointed as its director on January 4th, 2016. His research focuses on the properties and dynamics of complex fluids, rheological properties of flowing mixtures and colloidal suspensions. He has produced significant contributions to the understanding of the non-equilibrium micro-structure and rheology of strongly sheared suspensions. After earning his Phd degree from Caltech and a postdoctoral appointment in Shell, Amsterdam in 1995, he joined Georgia Tech as an Assistant Professor (1996-2002). Subsequently, he joined Halliburton as Senior Scientific Advisor (2002-2004) and joined CCNY in 2005.

Professor & Dean, University of Michigan

Dean Solomon’s research interests are in the area of complex fluids—soft materials with properties intermediate between fluids and solids. His group has developed and applied 3D confocal microscopy methods to study the soft matter phenomena of self-assembly, gelation, and the biomechanics of bacterial biofilms. His work has also included discovery of a universal scaling for polymer scission in turbulence that identifies the limits that scission imposes on turbulent drag reduction. Other research interests have included the rheology of polymer nanocomposites, the microrheology of complex fluids, and the microfluidic synthesis of anisotropic particles.

Professor, Stony Brook University

Dr. Tannenbaum received her BSc from Hebrew University in 1974, her MSc from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1978, both in Chemistry, and her PhD (DSc) from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in 1982 in Chemical Engineering. She has authored a book, several book chapters and more than 150 journal publications in the fields of biomaterials, nanotechnology and nanomedicine, tissue engineering and drug delivery. Her research aims to derive a methodical, comprehensive understanding of the bonding-structure-function relationship in multi-component systems, leading to advanced biomedical, optical, and electronic devices and processes. She is also working to develop bio-based and bio-compatible functional materials derived from renewable resources.

Program Manager, National Science Foundation

Dr. Olbricht is the NSF Program Manager for Future Manufacturing (FM), Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN), and Particulate and Multiphase Processes. Dr Olbricht has been faculty at Cornell University since 1980 in The Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Biomedical Engineering Departments. His research involves the application of fluid mechanics and mass transfer to problems of biological, biomedical and industrial interest. His expertise focuses on fundamentals that are relevant to broad classes of problems and also on technology development for specific applications.