The Department of Chemical Engineering welcomes Professor Patrick T. Underhill, on sabbatical on the UC Santa Barbara campus through the 2017 fall quarter.

Professor Underhill joins UCSB from The Howard P. Isermann Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where his research interests include complex fluids, coarse-grained simulations, microfluidics, biopolymers, and swimming microorganisms.

In the lab, his current research studies materials called complex fluids, encompassing a wide diversity from polymer solutions to colloidal suspensions, biomaterials, and active materials, using experimental, theoretical, and computational methods.

A unifying theme among these systems is that microstructure influences the macroscopic behavior.

Professor Underhill received his BS in Chemical Engineering, and in Physics, from Washington University in 2001, and his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2006.

Click here for more information on Professor Underhill, and the Dynamics of Complex Fluids Group.