Department of Chemical Engineering

Leonard F. Pease III earned a Ph.D. in Chemical and Materials Engineering from Princeton University in 2005 and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Brigham Young University in 2000. His doctoral thesis, written under the direction of Prof. William B. Russel, is entitled, Pattern formation in polymer via electrohydrodynamic instabilities and glassy fracture. At Princeton he served on the University’s budget committee and was nominated by the undergraduates for an Excellence in Teaching Award. He is currently working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology where he was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship by the National Research Council. With nearly 20 papers published or in preparation and 2 patents, he has published on topics including patterning of thin polymeric films, characterizing functionalized nanoparticles, and quantifying protein aggregation.  Leonard will join the faculty in January 2009.