Faculty & Staff

Faculty

Tim Osswald

Position title: Co-Director of the Polymer Engineering Center
Emeritus Professor

Email: tosswald@wisc.edu

Lih-Sheng "Tom" Turng

Position title: Co-Director of the Polymer Engineering Center
Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor
Kou K. & Cindy Wang Professor
Theme Leader of Bionates

Email: turng@engr.wisc.edu

Pavana Prabhakar

Position title: Associate Professor, Mechanical and Civil Engineering

Email: pprabhakar4@wisc.edu

Ying Li

Position title: Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Email: yli2562@wisc.edu

Shaoting Lin

Position title: Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Email: slin88@wisc.edu

Xiao Kuang

Position title: Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Email: xkuang9@wisc.edu

Xudong Wang

Position title: Thomas and Suzanne Werner Engineering Chair Professor, Materials Science & Engineering

Email: xudong@engr.wisc.edu

Padma Gopalan

Position title: Professor, Materials Science & Engineering

Email: pgopalan@wisc.edu

Staff

Paula Hohoff

Position title: Chief Engineer

Email: hohoff@wisc.edu

John E. Estela García

Position title: Graduate Research Assistant
International Polymer Colloquium Co-Chair

Email: estela@wisc.edu

Zijie Liu

Position title: Graduate Research Assistant

Email: zliu892@wisc.edu

Hector Sebastian Perez

Position title: Graduate Research Assistant
Office Manager
Lab Manager

Email: hsperez@wisc.edu

Distinguished Former Faculty

Natalie Rudolph

Position title: Former Assistant Professor (2014 to 2017)

Principle Engineer at Arevo, Inc.

A. Jeffery Giacomin

Position title: Former Professor (1994 to 2013)

Professor at Queens University
Tier 1 Canada Research Chair of Rheology

Heidi-Lynn Ploeg

Position title: Associate Professor

Robert Rowlands

Position title: Professor Emeritus