Christopher Browne

I am currently a postdoc at the University of Pennsylvania, working with Prof. Chinedum Osuji studying phase separation and formation of condensates in liquid crystal solutions. I completed my Ph.D. at Princeton University (funded by NSF GRFP), where I worked in soft matter with Prof. Suit Datta studying viscoelastic and multiphase flow in porous media, percolation, and hydrogel dynamics. I completed my B.S. in Chemical Engineering at Purdue University, where I worked with Prof. Stephen Beaudoin developing new techniques in the measurement of adhesive forces using atomic force microscopy, with the goal of informing the in-field detection of explosives and explosive-precursors, which I continued studying with Dr.’s Edward Sisco and Thomas Forbes at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.