Kevin D. Dorfman

Kevin D. Dorfman is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota. He received a B.S degree in chemical engineering from Penn State in 1999, an M.S. in chemical engineering from MIT in 2001, and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from MIT in 2002 under the supervision of Howard Brenner. Following a 3-year HFSP postdoctoral fellowship at the Curie Institute, working with Jean-Louis Viovy, he joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota in 2006. His group focuses on polymer physics, with particular recent emphases on the self-assembly of block polymers, dynamics of block polymer micelles, and the applications of polymer physics to genome mapping technologies. His research has been recognized, most notably, by the Colburn Award of the AIChE and a Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering. He is presently an Associate Editor of the journal Macromolecules and, with Prodromos Daoutidis, the author of the undergraduate textbook Numerical Methods with Chemical Engineering Applications, published by Cambridge University Press.