Rodney D. Priestley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University in 2008. He completed an NSF/Chateaubriand postdoctoral fellowship at Ecole Superieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris. His research interests include polymer glasses, nanoconfined polymer dynamics, polymer thin film and nanoparticle formation, MAPLE and responsive polymers. He is the recipient of the Quadrant Award, an international award given for excellence in academic achievement and scientific research in polymer science and engineering, the ACS New Investigator Grant, the 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Grant, the NSF CAREER Award, and an AFOSR YIP Award. Rodney recently received the Wentz Junior Faculty Award from the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientist and Engineers, and was named a 2013 Diverse Emerging Scholar and 2014 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow.

Materials Synthesis, Processing, Structure and Properties