Samuel Stupp, Ph.D.

Board of Trustees Professor of Materials Science, Chemistry, and Medicine
Northwestern University

Professor Samuel Stupp earned his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of California at Los Angeles and his Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from Northwestern University in 1977. He was a member of the faculty at Northwestern until 1980 and then spent 18 years at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he was appointed in 1996 Swanlund Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry, and Bioengineering. In 1999, he returned to Northwestern as a Board of Trustees professor of Materials Science, Chemistry, and Medicine, and later was appointed Director of Northwestern's Institute for BioNanotechnology in Medicine. Professor Stupp is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and fellow of the American Physical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, World Technology Network, and World Biomaterials Congress. His awards include the Department of Energy Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Materials Chemistry, a Humboldt Senior Award, the Materials Research Society's Medal Award, and the American Chemical Society Award in Polymer Chemistry for his work on supramolecular self-assembly. He was recently Paris Sciences Medal lecturer at Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles in Paris, Merck-Karl Visiting Professor of Organic Chemistry at MIT, and visiting professor at the Institut de Science et d'Ingenierie Supramoleculaires in Strasbourg. In May of 2005, he was awarded a Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fund Visiting Professorship in Chemistry at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. In 2005 Professor Stupp was listed in the Scientific American 50 Leaders Shaping the Future of Technology. His areas of research include supramolecular self-assembly, electronic and photonic properties of organic materials, biomaterials for regenerative medicine, and supramolecular nanostructures for targeting of chemotherapy.