Chinedum Osuji
Chinedum Osuji (born December 15, 1976)[1] is a former Taekwondo Olympian and an Eduardo D. Glandt Presidential Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE) at University of Pennsylvania.
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Nationality | Trinidad and Tobago | |||||||||||||
Born | 15 December 1976 | |||||||||||||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||
Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) | |||||||||||||
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Sport | Taekwondo | |||||||||||||
Event(s) | 80 kg | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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Early life and education
Chinedum Osuji was born in Trinidad and Tobago and lived there until he began his education in the United States.[2] He studied Materials Science and Engineering, receiving his Bachelor's degree from Cornell University in 1999, and his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2003.[3][2]
After receiving his PhD, he worked at Surface Logix Inc., a start-up company, and then from 2005-2007 was a post-doc at Harvard University.[2] In 2007, he joined the faculty of Yale University. In 2018, he moved to the University of Pennsylvania.[4]
Taekwondo career
In 2000, while at MIT, Chinedum Osuji co-founded the MIT sport taekwondo team.[5]
He represented Trinidad and Tobago at the World Taekwondo Championships in the 2001, 2003, and 2005 games.[6]
In 2003, he received a silver medal at the Pan American Games qualifier.[6]
In 2004, Chinedum qualified to compete in taekwondo men's 80 kg at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, but was defeated by Rashad Ahmadov of Azerbaijan in the preliminary round.[1]
He competed in the 2007 Pan American Games, receiving a bronze medal[6] and then announced his retirement from future international competitions.[2]
Scientific work
In 2007, after completing his post-doc at Harvard University, he joined the faculty of Yale University in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering.[2] In 2017 he joined the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering of the University of Pennsylvania as the Eduardo D. Glandt Presidential Professor.[7]
His work focuses on the study of the structure, dynamics, and self-assembly of soft matter for use in applications such as organic solar cells, nanofiltration and microfluidic bio-assays.[3] In particular, he has studied methods to induce long-range order in soft matter systems such as block copolymers and liquid crystals[8][9][10] and self-assembly of nanomaterials.[11]
He is the author of over 100 publications.[12] Osuji is currently an associate editor of Macromolecules.[13]
Honors and Awards
- 2008 National Science Foundation CAREER Award[14]
- 2010 Yale College Arthur Greer Memorial Prize[15]
- 2011 University of California, Santa Barbara Materials Research Lab Dow Distinguished Lectureship[16]
- 2012 3M Nontenured Faculty Award[17]
- 2012 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award[18]
- 2013 University of California, Santa Barbara Materials Department Lange Lectureship[19]
- 2015 National Academy of Engineering von Humboldt Frontiers of Engineering Speaker[20]
- 2015 American Physical Society John H. Dillon Medal[21]
- 2015 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Hendrick C. Van Ness Award[22]
- 2016 Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science Advancement of Basic and Applied Science Award[23]
- 2016 Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Graduate Mentor Award[24]
- 2018 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Racheff Lecture[25]
- 2018 American Physical Society Fellow[26][27]
References
- "Chinedum Osuji Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at". Sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2013-02-05. Retrieved 2013-02-16.
- Chinedum Osuji (2012-02-10). "Osuji Lab - Polymer Physics, Complex Fluids and Soft Materials Science: Directed Self Assembly, Supramolecular Polymers, Colloidal Rheology, Microfluidics". Eng.yale.edu. Archived from the original on 2010-09-01. Retrieved 2013-02-16.
- "Chinedum Osuji - Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science | Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science". Seas.yale.edu. 2012-11-30. Archived from the original on 2013-03-19. Retrieved 2013-02-16.
- "Chinedum Osuji Lab – Just another WordPress site". osujilab.seas.upenn.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-07-14. Retrieved 2018-07-14.
- "MIT Sport Taekwondo Club". Web.mit.edu. Archived from the original on 2013-06-24. Retrieved 2013-02-16.
- "CW Taekwondo at Boston - Competition Profile". Cwtkd.com. Archived from the original on 2012-08-15. Retrieved 2013-02-16.
- https://news.seas.upenn.edu/cbe-welcomes-professor-chinedum-osuji/
- Feng, Xunda; Kawabata, Kohsuke; Cowan, Matthew G.; Dwulet, Gregory E.; Toth, Kristof; Sixdenier, Lucas; Haji-Akbari, Amir; Noble, Richard D.; Elimelech, Menachem; Gin, Douglas L.; Osuji, Chinedum O. (November 2019). "Single crystal texture by directed molecular self-assembly along dual axes". Nature Materials. 18 (11): 1235–1243. doi:10.1038/s41563-019-0389-1. PMID 31209387. S2CID 190537263.
- Rokhlenko, Yekaterina; Moschovas, Dimitrios; Miskaki, Christina; Chan, Edwin P.; Avgeropoulos, Apostolos; Osuji, Chinedum O. (26 February 2019). "Creating Aligned Nanopores by Magnetic Field Processing of Block Copolymer/Homopolymer Blends". ACS Macro Letters. 8 (3): 261–266. doi:10.1021/acsmacrolett.9b00043.
- Gopinadhan, Manesh; Choo, Youngwoo; Kawabata, Kohsuke; Kaufman, Gilad; Feng, Xunda; Di, Xiaojun; Rokhlenko, Yekaterina; Mahajan, Lalit H.; Ndaya, Dennis; Kasi, Rajeswari M.; Osuji, Chinedum O. (7 November 2017). "Controlling orientational order in block copolymers using low-intensity magnetic fields". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114 (45): E9437–E9444. Bibcode:2017PNAS..114E9437G. doi:10.1073/pnas.1712631114. PMC 5692580. PMID 29078379.
- Zhang, Shanju; Pelligra, Candice I.; Feng, Xunda; Osuji, Chinedum O. (May 2018). "Directed Assembly of Hybrid Nanomaterials and Nanocomposites". Advanced Materials. 30 (18): 1705794. doi:10.1002/adma.201705794. PMID 29520839.
- https://osujilab.seas.upenn.edu/publications/
- "Macromolecules :". pubs.acs.org. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
- anonymous. "Chemical Engineering Receives Four NSF Awards". Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
- anonymous. "Osuji, Tang Awarded Greer Memorial Prize". Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
- "GSDS | Previous Speakers". Retrieved 2020-08-04.
- anonymous. "Osuji Wins 3M Young Investigator Award". Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
- "2012 Young Investigator Award Recipients". Office of Naval Research. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
- "Lange Lecture Series". www.materials.ucsb.edu. 2015-12-08. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
- "Chinedum Osuji". www.naefrontiers.org. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
- "John H. Dillon Medal". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
- "Van Ness Award Lectures | The Howard P. Isermann Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering". cbe.rpi.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
- "YSEA Award for Advancement of Basic and Applied Science : The Yale Science & Engineering Association, Inc. : GroupSpaces". groupspaces.com. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
- "Graduate Mentor Awards (Faculty) | Yale Graduate School of Arts & Sciences". gsas.yale.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
- "College of Engineering, All Events". calendars.illinois.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
- "Chinedum Osuji: APS Fellow". almanac.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
- "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2020-08-05.