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Chinedum Osuji

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Chinedum Osuji
Personal information
NationalityTrinidad and Tobago
Born (1976-12-15) 15 December 1976 (age 48)
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight80 kg (176 lb)
Sport
SportTaekwondo
Event80 kg
Medal record
Men's taekwondo
Representing Trinidad and Tobago
Pan American Games
Bronze medal – third place 2007 Rio de Janeiro 80 kg

Chinedum Osuji (born December 15, 1976)[1] is the Eduardo D. Glandt Presidential Professor and the departmental chair of chemical and biomolecular engineering (CBE) at University of Pennsylvania. He is also a former Taekwondo Olympian and represented Trinidad and Tobago. His laboratory works on polymers and soft materials for functional application including liquid filtration.[2] He is the associate editor of the journal Macromolecules.[3]

Early life and education

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Chinedum Osuji was born in Trinidad and Tobago and lived there until he began his education in the United States.[4] He studied materials science and engineering, receiving his bachelor's degree from Cornell University in 1999.[5] During his studies Cornell he completed a senior thesis on random copolymers for polymer interface reinforcement with Edward J. Kramer.[5] In 2003, Osuji received his PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).[6] At MIT he worked under the supervision of Edwin L. Thomas.[7] His research thesis was on the structure and properties of liquid crystalline block copolymers.[7]

After receiving his PhD, he worked at Surface Logix Inc., a start-up company, working on using soft lithography to fabricate cell-based assays, planar waveguides and other devices.[5][6] From 2005 to 2007, Osuji was a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University working with David A. Weitz on colloidal gels.[5]

Taekwondo career

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In 2000, while at MIT, Chinedum Osuji co-founded the MIT sport taekwondo team.[8]

He represented Trinidad and Tobago at the World Taekwondo Championships in the 2001, 2003, and 2005 games.[9]

In 2003, he received a silver medal at the Pan American Games qualifier.[9]

In 2004, Chinedum qualified to compete in taekwondo men's 80 kg at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, but was defeated by Rashad Ahmadov of Azerbaijan in the preliminary round.[1]

He competed in the 2007 Pan American Games, receiving a bronze medal[9] and then announced his retirement from future international competitions.[4]

Scientific career and research

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In 2007, after completing his post-doc at Harvard University, he joined the faculty of Yale University in the department of chemical and environmental engineering.[4] In 2017 he joined the department of chemical and biomolecular engineering of the University of Pennsylvania as the Eduardo D. Glandt Presidential Professor.[10] In 2021, he became the chair of the department of chemical and biomolecular engineering.[11]

Osuji research focuses on the study of the structure, dynamics, and self-assembly of soft matter for use in applications such as organic solar cells, nanofiltration and microfluidic bio-assays.[12] In particular, he has studied methods to induce long-range order in soft matter systems such as block copolymers and liquid crystals[13][14][15] and self-assembly of nanomaterials.[16]

He is the author of over 100 publications.[17] Osuji is currently an associate editor of Macromolecules.[3]

Honors and awards

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Chinedum Osuji Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at". Sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2013-02-05. Retrieved 2013-02-16.
  2. ^ "Beer with no buzz: 2021 Y-Prize awards dealcoholization project". Penn Today. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
  3. ^ a b "Macromolecules". pubs.acs.org. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  4. ^ a b c Chinedum Osuji (2012-02-10). "Osuji Lab - Polymer Physics, Complex Fluids and Soft Materials Science: Directed Self Assembly, Supramolecular Polymers, Colloidal Rheology, Microfluidics". Eng.yale.edu. Archived from the original on 2010-09-01. Retrieved 2013-02-16.
  5. ^ a b c d "Prize Recipient". www.aps.org. Archived from the original on 2015-09-06. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
  6. ^ a b Dame, Marketing Communications: Web // University of Notre. "CBE Fall Lecture Series: Chinedum Osuji // Notre Dame Energy // University of Notre Dame". Notre Dame Energy. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
  7. ^ a b Osuji, Chinedum (2003). Structure and properties of hydrogen and covalently bonded side group liquid crystalline block copolymers (Thesis thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. hdl:1721.1/29973.
  8. ^ "MIT Sport Taekwondo Club". Web.mit.edu. Archived from the original on 2013-06-24. Retrieved 2013-02-16.
  9. ^ a b c "CW Taekwondo at Boston - Competition Profile". Cwtkd.com. Archived from the original on 2012-08-15. Retrieved 2013-02-16.
  10. ^ "CBE Welcomes Professor Chinedum Osuji".
  11. ^ "Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering". directory.seas.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
  12. ^ "Chinedum Osuji - Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science | Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science". Seas.yale.edu. 2012-11-30. Archived from the original on 2013-03-19. Retrieved 2013-02-16.
  13. ^ Feng, Xunda; Kawabata, Kohsuke; Cowan, Matthew G.; Dwulet, Gregory E.; Toth, Kristof; Sixdenier, Lucas; Haji-Akbari, Amir; Noble, Richard D.; Elimelech, Menachem; Gin, Douglas L.; Osuji, Chinedum O. (November 2019). "Single crystal texture by directed molecular self-assembly along dual axes". Nature Materials. 18 (11): 1235–1243. doi:10.1038/s41563-019-0389-1. PMID 31209387. S2CID 190537263.
  14. ^ Rokhlenko, Yekaterina; Moschovas, Dimitrios; Miskaki, Christina; Chan, Edwin P.; Avgeropoulos, Apostolos; Osuji, Chinedum O. (26 February 2019). "Creating Aligned Nanopores by Magnetic Field Processing of Block Copolymer/Homopolymer Blends". ACS Macro Letters. 8 (3): 261–266. doi:10.1021/acsmacrolett.9b00043. PMID 35650826. S2CID 139771337.
  15. ^ Gopinadhan, Manesh; Choo, Youngwoo; Kawabata, Kohsuke; Kaufman, Gilad; Feng, Xunda; Di, Xiaojun; Rokhlenko, Yekaterina; Mahajan, Lalit H.; Ndaya, Dennis; Kasi, Rajeswari M.; Osuji, Chinedum O. (7 November 2017). "Controlling orientational order in block copolymers using low-intensity magnetic fields". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114 (45): E9437–E9444. Bibcode:2017PNAS..114E9437G. doi:10.1073/pnas.1712631114. PMC 5692580. PMID 29078379.
  16. ^ Zhang, Shanju; Pelligra, Candice I.; Feng, Xunda; Osuji, Chinedum O. (May 2018). "Directed Assembly of Hybrid Nanomaterials and Nanocomposites". Advanced Materials. 30 (18): 1705794. Bibcode:2018AdM....3005794Z. doi:10.1002/adma.201705794. PMID 29520839.
  17. ^ "Publications – Osujilab at Penn".
  18. ^ anonymous. "Chemical Engineering Receives Four NSF Awards". Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  19. ^ anonymous. "Osuji, Tang Awarded Greer Memorial Prize". Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  20. ^ "GSDS | Previous Speakers". Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  21. ^ anonymous. "Osuji Wins 3M Young Investigator Award". Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  22. ^ "2012 Young Investigator Award Recipients". Office of Naval Research. Archived from the original on 2022-02-14. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  23. ^ "Lange Lecture Series". www.materials.ucsb.edu. 2015-12-08. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  24. ^ "Chinedum Osuji". www.naefrontiers.org. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  25. ^ "John H. Dillon Medal". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  26. ^ "Van Ness Award Lectures | The Howard P. Isermann Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering". cbe.rpi.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  27. ^ "YSEA Award for Advancement of Basic and Applied Science : The Yale Science & Engineering Association, Inc. : GroupSpaces". groupspaces.com. Yale Science & Engineering Association. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  28. ^ "Graduate Mentor Awards (Faculty) | Yale Graduate School of Arts & Sciences". gsas.yale.edu. Archived from the original on 2020-09-30. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  29. ^ "College of Engineering, All Events". calendars.illinois.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
  30. ^ "Chinedum Osuji: APS Fellow". almanac.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
  31. ^ "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
  32. ^ "Chinedum Osuji | Candidate for MRS Board of Directors". www.mrs.org. Archived from the original on 2022-03-02. Retrieved 2022-03-02.
  33. ^ "Chinedum Osuji: Intel Outstanding Researcher Award". almanac.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-02.
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