Rachel A. Segalman (she/her)
E.N. Kramer Professor of Materials
Departments of Chemical Engineering, Materials, and Chemistry & Biochemistry
3353 Engineering II & 3117E MRL
University of California
Santa Barbara , CA 93106-5080
Phone: (805) 893-3709
segalman@ucsb.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, December 2002
University of California, Santa Barbara
Advisor: Professor Edward J. Kramer
Thesis: Controlling Long Range Order in Block Copolymer Thin Films
B.S. Chemical Engineering, May 1998
Graduated with Highest Honors
The University of Texas at Austin
APPOINTMENT
2018-Present
2014–Present
2014–2023
2010–2015
2013–2014
2013–2014
2011–2013
2009–2013
2004–2009
Dec 2002–
Dec 2003
Sept 1998–
Dec 2002
Aug 1997–
Sept 1998
Summer 1992–
Summer 1997
Associated Director, UT-UCSB-LBL DOE-EFRC Materials for Water and Energy Transformations (M-WET)
Kramer Professor of Materials, Departments of Chemical Engineering and Materials, University of California, Santa Barbara
Chair, Department of Chemical Engineering and Warren and Katherine Schlinger Professor of Chemical Engineering
Director of AFOSR-MURI on Thermal and Electrical Transport in Organic and Hybrid Materials
Acting Director, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories Materials Science Division
Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Vice Chair for Graduate Education, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, and Faculty Research Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories Materials Science Division
Charles Wilke Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of California , Berkeley , and Faculty Research Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories Materials Science Division
Postdoctoral Fellow, Ecole Européenne de Chimie, Polymères et Matériaux (ECPM) une composante de l'Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France;
Mentor: Professor Georges Hadziioannou
University of California, Santa Barbara
Graduate student research and teaching assistant
The University of Texas at Austin- Undergraduate Research Assistant
Mentor: Professor Peter Green
Sandia National Laboratories Research Intern: Advanced Materials Lab with Joe Cesarano
HONORS AND AWARDS
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2021
2019
2019
2018
2018–2021
2017
2016
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2016
2015
2013
2012
2011
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1998
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)
Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Andy Acrivos Professional Progress Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers
E.O. Lawrence Prize, Department of Energy
Elected member of the National Academy of Engineering
Elected member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
NSF Special Creativity Award
Smith Lecture, UC Davis
Elected Board of Directors, Materials Research Society
Covestro Lecture, University of Akron College of Polymer Science and Engineering
Blue-Green Lecture, University of Michigan and Michigan State U.
Cornelius Ping Lecture, University of Southern California
Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
Journal of Polymer Science Innovation Award
Centennial Lecture, University of Texas Austin
Invited Speaker on Energy Technologies, National Academies of Engineering Symposium (associated paper was chosen for feature in NAE Bridge quarterly publication)
John H. Dillon Medal of the American Physical Society
Robert W. Vaughn Lectureship, California Institute of Technology
Thiele Lectureship, University of Notre Dame
Camille Dreyfus Teacher–Scholar Award
Invited participant in Kavli Symposium (National Academy of Science)
Hendrick C. Van Ness Lectureship, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Alfred P. Sloan Fellow
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Materials Science Division's Young Scientist of the Year Award
MDV Innovators Award
TR35: Technology Review's Top Innovators Under 35
National Academy of Engineering: Frontiers of Engineering Invitee
Hellman Young Faculty Award
MDV Innovators Award
3M Untenured Faculty Award
NSF CAREER Award
Intel Young Faculty Seed Grant Award
Chateaubriand Postdoctoral Fellowship
MRS Graduate Student Award Finalist
Corning Fellowship
Poster Prize at MRL Workshop on Advanced Materials (with EPFL Lausanne / ETH Zurich / UCSB / Weizmann)
Executive Vice Chancellor Fellowship
National Science Foundation Fellowship
University of California Regents Fellowship