Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, UT Austin
Faculty Investigator, IRG 1
Nate was born in Kalamazoo, MI. As an undergraduate, Nate did research under Gregory L. Baker on renewable-resource derived polymers and graduated with a B.S. in chemistry, and a B.A. in German. He completed his Ph.D. in polymer chemistry at the University of Minnesota under Marc A. Hillmyer in late 2007. The title of his thesis was “The Effects of Polydispersity on Block Copolymer Self-Assembly”. Nate was a postdoctoral scholar in the Materials Research Laboratory at UCSB in 2007–2010 with Glenn H. Fredrickson, Craig J. Hawker, and the late Edward J. Kramer. Nate worked as a project scientist at UCSB during 2010–2013. After that time, Nate moved to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a staff scientist before moving to UT-Austin in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering in 2015.