Alfredo Alexander-Katz

Background and Experience

Professor Alexander-Katz earned a BS in physics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1998 and his PhD in physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2004. His PhD work focused on understanding the self-assembly of copolymers using novel field-theoretical methods. As an National Science Foundation International Postdoctoral Fellow, he moved to Munich, Germany, to study the dynamics of driven polymers. His work there led to an important discovery that unraveled the mystery behind the process of blood clotting at high shear rates and opened new routes for the development of novel shear responsive materials. He later moved to the École Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielle in Paris as a CNRS postdoctoral researcher to study charged polymer solutions and their self-assembly with direct applications to fuel cells.