Prof. Jay Schieber is the Director of the Center for molecular study of condensed soft matter (μCoSM), Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Professor of Physics, and Professor of Applied Mathematics, all at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He received his bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Illinois-Urbana, and his Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prof. Schieber subsequently was a NATO-NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the Universit ̈at Freiburg in Germany, in the Physics Department. He was also a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University before becoming a faculty at the University of Houston. He was selected Fellow of the Society of Rheology in 2017; was the Hougen Scholar at the University of Wisconsin in 2004; has received three departmental teaching awards; and has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago; ETH-Zurich, Switzerland; the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Nagoya University in Japan, Technical University/Delft in the Netherlands; Technical University/Eindhoven in the Netherlands; Northwestern University; and Instituto Politecnico Nacional in Mexico City. His research focuses on transport phenomena in soft matter and complex fluids, including experiment, theory and computation.
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