SHARON C. GLOTZER

Professor
Departments of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science and
Northwestern University
United States of America

Biography

She is a Stuart W. Churchill Collegiate Professor of Chemical Engineering, U Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, October 1, 2009 – present. o Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, 2005 - present. (25% appointment) o Professor, Department of Physics, 2005 - present. (0% appointment); Macromolecular Science and Engineering, 2005 - present. (0% appointment); Applied Physics Program, 2006 - present. (0% appointment) o Director of Research Computing, College of Engineering, September 1, 2009 – August 30, 2012 (25% appointment) o Additional affiliations: o Associate Faculty, UM Center for the Study of Complex Systems o Senior faculty, UM Institute for Theoretical Physics o Faculty, UM Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter o Affiliate Faculty, Center for Computational Medicine and Biology o Sabbatical affiliations for September 2008 – May 2009: o Faculty Fellow, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Champaign, IL and Director, Virtual School of Computational Science & Engineering, Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation and Blue Waters o Visiting Professor, Université du Luxembourg, Faculté des Sciences de la Technologie et de la Communication, Campus Kirchberg, Luxembourg • Co-founding Director, Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering, Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation (A consortium of NCSA and the Big 10+), 2008 – present. • Professor (with tenure), Department of Chemical Engineering, U Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, Sept 2005 – Oct 2009. Also Professor of Materials Science and Engineering (25%), and Physics (0%), with add’l affiliations in Macromolecular Science and Engineering, and Applied Physics

Research Intrest

Chemical Engineering & Materials Science

List of Publications
Kob W, Donati C, Plimpton SJ, Poole PH, Glotzer SC. Dynamical heterogeneities in a supercooled Lennard-Jones liquid. Physical review letters. 1997 Oct 13;79(15):2827.
Donati C, Douglas JF, Kob W, Plimpton SJ, Poole PH, Glotzer SC. Stringlike cooperative motion in a supercooled liquid. Physical review letters. 1998 Mar 16;80(11):2338.
Glotzer SC, Solomon MJ. Anisotropy of building blocks and their assembly into complex structures. Nature materials. 2007 Aug 1;6(8):557.