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Granick Research Group
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Steve Granick received his B.A. cum laude from Princeton University in 1978 and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1982. He joined the faculty of the University of Illinois in 1985 following postdoctoral research at the Collège de France with P.-G. de Gennes and at the University of Minnesota with Matthew Tirrell. Presently he is Founder Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, as well as Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics. He is married to Helen Lau and has two children, Bruce and Martin.

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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND HONORS:

Fellow, American Physical Society, 1992
NSF Award for Special Creativity, 1993
Plenary Lecture, Society of Rheology, 1998
Senior Xerox Award, UIUC, 1993
University Scholar, UIUC, 1997
Paris-Sciences Medal, City of Paris, 2002
Chair, DOE Council on Materials Panel on Polymers at Interfaces, 2002
Center for Advanced Study, UIUC, 2005-2006
Dorn Lecture, Northwestern University, 2006
Chair, Division of Polymer Physics, American Physical Society, 2006
Vice-Chair, Gordon Research Conference on Liquids, 2007

Organizer of various workshops, short courses, symposia for ACS, APS, DOE.
Various committees, American Chemical Society and American Physical Society
Visiting Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, 1994

Visiting Professor, Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie, Paris, France, 2002
Visiting Professor, Centre Paul Pascal, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, 2003
Guest Professor of Polymer Chemistry, Peking Univ., China, 2002 to date
Guest Professor of Chemical Physics, USTC, China, 2006 to date
Guest Professor, Zhejiang Univ., China, 2007 to date

EDITORIAL AND ADVISORY BOARDS:

Editorial Board of Tribology Letters, 1995 to date
Editorial Board of Langmuir, 1996-1998
Editorial Board of Journal of Polymer Science B, 2000 to date
Editorial Board of Journal of Physical Chemistry, 2002-2005
Editorial Board of Polymer, 2003 to date
Advisory Board, International Nanotribology Forum, 2004 to date
Editorial Board of BioInterphases, 2006 to date
Editorial Board of Journal of Chemical Physics, 2007 to date
International Academic Advisory Committee of the HFNL (USTC), Hefei, China, 2007 to date.

Contact Webmaster
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The Granick research group is an affiliated member of the Materials Research Laboratory,
the Beckman Institute, the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology.