Rodney Priestley

Athlete, Concerned citizen, Educator/Teacher, Engineer, Entrepreneur, Idea generator, Inventor, Scientist, Startup, Technologist

Rodney D. Priestley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University in 2008. He completed a NSF/Chateaubriand postdoctoral fellowship at Ecole Superieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris. His research interests include polymer glasses, nanoconfined polymer dynamics, polymer thin film and nanoparticle formation, MAPLE and responsive polymers. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Quadrant Award, ACS New Investigator Grant, 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Grant, NSF CAREER Award, AFOSR YIP, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientist and Engineers, Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship and Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. Most recently he was named to The Root 100 list of most influential African American in 2014. Rodney is also the co-founder and scientific advisor of Sphera Materials. Sphera Materials proprietary technology is used to develop polymer-based nanoparticles, for instance, Janus particles, that are difficult to produce by other means for range of application but with a focus in oil and gas and consumer products.

Nanotechnology, Engineering Education, Entrepreneurship, Plastics, Leadership

Engineering - Chemical, Glass, materials discovery, nanocomposites, Nanoparticles, Polymer Science

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