Sharon Glotzer

Sharon C. Glotzer
Born New York City, New York
Residence USA
Citizenship USA
Fields Physics
Chemistry
Materials Science
Chemical Engineering
Institutions University of Michigan
Doctoral advisor H. Eugene Stanley
Known for Dynamical Heterogeneity
Directional Entropic Force
Self-assembly
Patchy Particles
Packing
Notable awards Simons Investigator, 2012-2017
Member, National Academy Sciences, 2014
Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2011
Fellow, American Physical Society
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
National Security Science & Engineering Faculty Fellow, 2009-2014

Sharon C. Glotzer is an American physicist, the John Werner Cahn Distinguished University Professor of Engineering and the Stuart W. Churchill Collegiate Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan, where she is also Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, Professor of Physics, Professor of Macromolecular Science & Engineering, and Professor of Applied Physics. She is recognized for her contributions to the fields of soft matter and computational science, most notably on problems in assembly science and engineering, nanoscience, and the glass transition, for which the elucidation of the nature of dynamical heterogeneity in glassy liquids is of particular significance. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Education

Glotzer obtained her B.S in physics at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1987, and her PhD in 1993 in theoretical soft condensed matter physics research under the guidance of H. Eugene Stanley at Boston University.[1]

Academic career

Sharon Glotzer joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST in Gaithersburg, Maryland, in 1993 as a National Research Council postdoctoral fellow in the Polymers Division of the Materials Science & Engineering Laboratory. She became a permanent member of the Polymers Division, and was the co-founder, deputy director, and then director of the NIST Center for Theoretical and Computational Materials Science from 1994-2000. In January 2001 she moved to the University of Michigan as a tenured associate professor in Chemical Engineering and in Materials Science & Engineering. She is now the Stuart W. Churchill Collegiate Professor of Chemical Engineering, and holds additional appointments in Materials Science and Engineering, Physics, Applied Physics, and Macromolecular Science and Engineering.

Research and achievements

Glotzer made fundamental contributions to the field of the glass transition, for which the Molecular Dynamics simulation of Lennard–Jones spheres exhibiting heterogeneity in a 3D-liquid[2] is of particular significance.[3] In addition, her paper together with Michael J. Solomon on anisotropy dimensions of patchy particles[4] has become a classic work, inspiring research directions of groups around the world. Glotzer and collaborators also hold the record for the densest tetrahedron packing and discovered that hard tetrahedrons can self-assemble into a dodecagonal quasicrystal.[5]

Glotzer and collaborators coined the term ‘Directional Entropic Forces’[6] in 2011 to denote the effective interaction that drives anisotropic hard particles to align their facets prior to assembly and/or crystallization . This idea, based on Onsager's work on spherocylinders,[7] allows for predictions of expected assembled crystal and crystal-like structures from attributes of the particles' shape.[8]

To date, her publications have received over 14,000 citations and her h-index is 61.[9]

Honors and awards

Glotzer was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and holds a prestigious National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship from the Department of Defense. She was named a Simons' Investigator in 2012, part of the inaugural class of Investigators. Like the MacArthur "Genius" Awardees, Simons Investigators receive significant funding to pursue unrestricted basic research. Glotzer is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Charles M.A. Stine Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), the Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award from the American Physical Society, a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), and a Department of Commerce Bronze Medal Award for Superior Federal Service. In 2014, she became an associate editor of ACS Nano.[10]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "Sharon C. Glotzer - Chemical Engineering". College of Engineering, University of Michigan. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
  2. ↑ "Dynamical Heterogeneities in a Supercooled Lennard-Jones Liquid". APS. Retrieved 23 June 2012.
  3. ↑ "Heterogeneity at the glass transition: a review" (PDF). Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids (Elsevier) 243: 81–108. Bibcode:1999JNCS..243...81S. doi:10.1016/S0022-3093(98)00831-X. Archived from the original on 2008-02-08. Retrieved 23 June 2012.
  4. ↑ Glotzer SC, Solomon MJ. "Anisotropy of building blocks and their assembly into complex structures". Nature Materials 6 (8): 557–562. doi:10.1038/nmat1949.
  5. ↑ Haji-Akbari, Amir; Engel, Michael; Keys, Aaron S.; Zheng, Xiaoyu; Petschek, Rolfe G.; Palffy-Muhoray, Peter; Glotzer, Sharon C. (2009). "Disordered, quasicrystalline and crystalline phases of densely packed tetrahedra". Nature 462 (7274): 773–777. arXiv:1012.5138. Bibcode:2009Natur.462..773H. doi:10.1038/nature08641. PMID 20010683.
  6. ↑ "Crystalline Assemblies and Densest Packings of a Family of Truncated Tetrahedra and the Role of Directional Entropic Forces" (PDF). ACS. Archived from the original on 2011-12-01. Retrieved 23 June 2012.
  7. ↑ "The effects of shape on the interaction of colloidal particles". Wiley. Retrieved 23 June 2012.
  8. ↑ "Structural Diversity and the Role of Particle Shape and Dense Fluid Behavior in Assemblies of Hard Polyhedra" (PDF). Archived from the original on 2012-02-10. Retrieved 23 June 2012.
  9. ↑ "Google Scholar: Sharon Glotzer". Retrieved 20 May 2015.
  10. ↑ "Nanoscience vs Nanotechnology—Defining the Field".

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