Kathleen Stebe

Kathleen J. Stebe is the Richer and Elizabeth Goodwin Professor in the School Engineering and Applied Sciences in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.  Educated at the City College of New York, she received a B.A. in Economics and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the Levich Institute advised by Charles Maldarelli. After a post-doctoral year in Compiegne, France under the guidance of Dominique Barthes-Biesel, she joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, where she became Professor and served as the department chair. Thereafter, she joined the University of Pennsylvania, where she served as department chair and as Deputy Dean. She serves as the current Chair of the Division of Colloids and Surface Science at the American Chemical Society, and the Vice Chair elect of the Division of Soft Matter of the American Physical Society. She has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of the American Physical Society, the Radcliffe Institute and the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars. Her research focuses on directed assembly in soft matter and at fluid interfaces, with an emphasis on confinement, geometry, and emergent structures for novel functional materials.