Steve Granick
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
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Primary Section: 31, Engineering Sciences Secondary Section: 33, Applied Physical Sciences Membership Type:
Member
(elected 2015)
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Biosketch
Steve Granick is an American scientist and educator. He joined the University of Massachusetts in 2023 after serving as Director of the IBS Center for Soft and Living Matter, a blue-sky research institute that is the Korean version of a Max-Planck Institute. At the University of Illinois (until 2015) he was the Racheff Chair Professor of Materials Science and Engineering with joint appointments in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Chemistry, and Physics. Among his major awards are APS Fellow (1992), Paris-Sciences Medal (2002), APS national Polymer Physics Prize (2009), NSF Special Creativity Award (2012), and ACS national Colloid and Surface Chemistry Prize (2013). He served as Chair of the DOE Council on Materials Panel on Polymers at Interfaces (2002) and Chair of the APS Division of Polymer Physics (2006). He holds and has held Honorary or Visiting Positions at numerous universities in Europe and Asia. His education was at Princeton University (B.A. 1978) and the University of Wisconsin (Ph.D. 1982). His doctoral study was with J.D. Ferry, the most prominent polymer scientist of his generation. His postdoctoral study was with P.-G. de Gennes.
Research Interests
I am interested in soft and living matter. I believe that if we can understand everyday life, we can help to improve it. With research goals of understanding fundamental materials processes and developing new ones, I believe in being curious about the world.
