You’re invites to a seminar in Maryland Hall room 110 with Sharon Glotzer, John W. Cahn Distinguished University Professor of Engineering and the Stuart W. Churchill Collegiate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her seminar will take place on Wednesday, September 24th at 3pm.
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Bio: Sharon Glotzer
Sharon C. Glotzer is the John W. Cahn Distinguished University Professor of Engineering and the
Stuart W. Churchill Collegiate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Professor of Materials
Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She also holds faculty
appointments in Physics, Applied Physics, and Macromolecular Science and Engineering. Since
July 2017, she has served as the Anthony C. Lembke Department Chair of Chemical Engineering
at the University of Michigan.
Her research on computational assembly science and engineering aims toward the predictive
materials design of colloidal and soft matter. Using computation, geometrical concepts, and
statistical mechanics, her research group seeks to understand the complex behavior emerging from
simple rules and forces and to use that knowledge to design new materials. Glotzer’s group also
develops and disseminates powerful open-source software, including the particle simulation toolkit
HOOMD-blue, which allows for fast molecular simulation of materials on graphics processors, the
signac framework for data and workflow management, and freud for analysis and visualization.
(https://github.com/glotzerlab/)
Glotzer received her Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from UCLA and her PhD in Physics
from Boston University. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National
Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Institute of Chemical
Engineers, the American Physical Society, the Materials Research Society, and the Royal Society
of Chemistry.
Glotzer is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including most recently the 2025 Irving
Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics from the American Physical Society, the 2025 Peter Debye
Award in Physical Chemistry from the American Chemical Society, the 2024 David Turnbull
Lectureship Award from the Materials Research Society, and the 2024 Foundations of Molecular
Modeling and Simulation (FOMMS) Medal for her fundamental contributions to the development
of computational methods of particle assembly. In 2023, Glotzer was honored to be named a
Clarivate Citation Laureate, joining a cohort of 23 world-class researchers who have made
significant contributions across a diverse range of fields. Other awards include the Aneesur Rahman
Prize for Computational Physics from the American Physical Society in 2019, the 2016 Alpha Chi
Sigma Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and the 2014 MRS Medal from
the Materials Research Society.