Title and Affiliation:

Professor of University of Massachusetts

Lecture title:

Polyelectrolyte Gel Dynamics

Short autobiography:

Murugappan Muthukumar did his undergraduate education in University of Madras, India, and received his Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from the University of Chicago by studying under  Professor Karl Freed. After his postdoctoral fellowship with Sir Sam Edwards of the Cavendish Laboratory at the Cambridge University, he joined the faculty of Illinois Institute of Technology for a couple of years, and then moved to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he is the Wilmer D. Barrett Distinguished Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering.

Research Interests:

-    Polyelectrolyte Physics

-    Translocation of Polymers

-    Polymer Crystallization