Julie A. Kornfield

Elizabeth W. Gilloon Professor of Chemical Engineering

jak@cheme.caltech.edu

Molecular and microscopic aspects of polymer viscoelasticity. Application of optical, NMR and x-ray techniques to observe order and dynamics in polymers, including associative polymers, block copolymers, liquid-crystalline polymers, semicrystalline polymers and polymer gels

Awards and Honors
Fellow, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), 2022
National Academy of Engineering (NAE), 2020
National Academy of Inventors (NAI), 2019
Bingham Medalist, 2017
Bird, Lightfoot, Stewart Lectureship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2017
Covestro Lectures, University of Akron, 2015
RA Mashelkar Lecture, National Chemical Laboratories, India, 2013
Caltech Graduate Student Council Award for Faculty in a Mentoring Role, 2012
Hougen Symposium on Frontiers of Liquid Crystals, University of Wisconsin, 2009
One Hundred Chemical Engineers of the Modern Era, AIChE Centennial Award, 2008
National Science Foundation Special Creativity Extension, 2008
Chemical Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series, University of Utah, 2008
Whitby Lectures, University of Akron, 2008
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2007
Stein-Bayer Seminar, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2006
Thiele Lecture, University of Notre Dame, 2001
Caltech Graduate Student Council Teaching Award, 2001
Fellow, American Physical Society, 2000
Newcomb Lecture, Tulane University, 1999
Colburn Lecture, University of Delaware, 1998
Dillon Medal of the American Physical Society, Division of High Polymer Physics, 1996
Unilever Award of the American Chemical Society, 1995
Richard M. Badger Teaching Prize of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, 1994
American Association of the University Women Recognition Award for Emerging Scholars, 1993
Richard P. Feynman-Hughes Fellowship for New Faculty, 1992-95
National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1990
National Science Foundation NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1989
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 1984-88
Outstanding Teaching Assistant, Chemical Engineering Department, Stanford University, 1988
Kodak Scholar, 1979-1983
A.J. Haagen-Smit Award for Outstanding Junior in Chemistry, Caltech, 1982
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow, Caltech, 1981

Memberships
American Institute of Chemical Engineers
American Chemical Society
American Physical Society
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Materials Research Society
National Academy of Engineering
National Academy of Inventors
Society of Rheology