| LCI News |
Dec.
17,
2004 On Dec. 15, Dr. Oleg D. Lavrentovich, director of the Liquid Crystal Institute, announced that Dr. Robin Selinger, of The Catholic University of America will join Kent State’s Liquid Crystal Institute as a professor in the Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program. Selinger’s appointment is effective July 1. Her husband, Dr. Jonathan Selinger of the Naval Research Laboratory’s Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering, will also join the Liquid Crystal Institute as its Ohio Eminent Scholar. Robin Selinger’s research interests lie in theoretical/computational studies in liquid crystals and other soft materials, and in modeling deformation and fracture of crystalline solids. She works with molecular scale and mesoscale simulation techniques, and a major unifying theme throughout her research is the study of topological defects and their role in transport and microstructure. She’s published more than three dozen papers which together have received more than 680 citations. Her most recent publication explores the assembly of chiral lipids into aggregates of different shapes, curvature, and handedness. Much of her work has been funded by grants from the U.S. Navy, Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society, National Science Foundation and The Center for Theoretical/Computational Materials Science at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. She holds her bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Harvard University. She has held professional positions at University of California at Los Angeles, University of Maryland, National Institute of Standards and Technology in addition to her current position with The Catholic University of America. She has taught at both the graduate and undergraduate level. The Liquid Crystal Institute is a leader in basic and applied
liquid crystal science, with a broad range of research activities,
exemplary labs and facilities and a vibrant scientific atmosphere.
The interdisciplinary graduate program in chemical physics attracts
outstanding graduate students from around the world. The Liquid
Crystal Institute has built an Industrial Partnership Program that
is made up of more than 30 local and national companies. ### |