SPG Seminar

BIOGRAPHY:

Melissa Grunlan is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University (TAMU) and Holder of the Charles H. and Bettye Barclay Professorship in Engineering. She is also a TAMU Chancellor EDGES Fellow and Presidential Impact Fellow. She holds courtesy appointments in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering and the Department of Chemistry. Prof. Grunlan obtained a B.S. in Chemistry and M.S. in Polymers in Coatings from North Dakota State University and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Southern California. Her work is focused on the development of synthetic polymeric biomaterials for implanted medical devices and for regenerative engineering. She is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), the American Chemical Society (ACS), and the ACS PMSE Division. Prof. Grunlan is also a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors. http://grunlanlab.tamu.edu/

 

 

BIOGRAPHY:

Dr. Jaime Grunlan is the Leland T. Jordan ’29 Chair of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, where he has worked for more than 17 years. He holds joint appointments in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Department of Chemistry. His research focuses on thermal and transport properties of polymer nanocomposites. He is a world leader in organic thermoelectric materials, super gas barrier layers, and environmentally-benign, flame retardant nanocoatings. He holds 14 issued U.S. patents and several EU patents that have been licensed to more than 10 companies. He has published more than 190 journal papers, with more than 21,000 citations. Dr. Grunlan has graduated 26 PhD students and has mentored more than 50 undergraduate students in his research laboratory. His work has been highlighted in Smithsonian Magazine and the New York Times. He is an Editor of the Journal of Materials Science, Associate Editor of Green Materials, and serves on the International Advisory Board for Macromolecular Rapid Communications and Macromolecular Materials and Engineering. In 2018, Prof. Grunlan became a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and was awarded a doctorate honoris causa(i.e. honorary doctorate) from the University of South Brittany (Lorient, France). In 2019, he became a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). http://nanocomposites.tamu.edu