Samuel I. Stupp

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Samuel I. Stupp (2011)

Samuel Isaac Stupp (* 1951 in San José , Costa Rica ) is an American chemist , materials scientist and biotechnologist . He teaches and researches at Northwestern University and focuses on supramolecular chemistry , self-assembly and nanotechnology and their application in medical and power engineering .

Career

Samuel I. Stupp was born in Costa Rica, but received his academic training in the United States . He attended the University of California, Los Angeles , where he graduated in 1972 with a bachelor's degree in chemistry . Then he moved to the Northwestern University in Illinois , where he in 1977 in the field of materials and Engineering (Materials Science & Engineering) for Ph.D. received his doctorate . For the next three years, Stupp was an assistant professor at Northwestern University before he accepted the call of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 1980 and initially worked in the same position. In 1989 he was appointed to a full professorship for materials and engineering there, which was followed by another in the chemistry department in 1992. At the same time he worked at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at UIUC and in 1997 as visiting professor at the Charles Sadron Institute at the University of Strasbourg and at the CNRS .

In 1999, Stupp returned to Northwestern University and took over the professorship for materials science, chemistry, and medicine , which he still holds today. He is also the director of the Institute for BioNanotechnology , the Center for Regenerative Nanomedicine and the Center for Bio-Inspired Energy Science, and in 2015 he held a visiting professorship at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore .

Scientific work

Stupp works at the interfaces between materials and engineering sciences as well as chemistry and biomedicine ( bioengineering ) . He mainly deals with supramolecular chemistry and self-assembly , for example of amphiphilic peptides , as well as with nanotechnology . In addition, he develops relevant, practical application possibilities in the field of medical technology , in particular for regenerative medicine for the treatment of heart attacks , Parkinson's disease or paralysis after spinal cord damage. Another focus is energy technology, so his working group deals with new materials in the field of photovoltaics , for example with hydrogels or supercapacitors .

To date, Stupp has published over 300 scientific articles, including in Nature and Science . Because of his citations, he was listed by Thomson Reuters in the Top 100 Chemists for 2000–2010 , as well as in 2016 by Elsevier in the Most Cited Researchers in Materials Science & Engineering .

Honors

Stupp received the ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry in 2005 for his contributions in the field of polymer chemistry . He received honorary doctorates from the Technical University of Eindhoven (2009), the Universidad de Costa Rica (2011) and the University of Gothenburg (2013). He is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society , the American Physical Society , the National Academy of Engineering (2012) and the Royal Society of Chemistry (2016). He was also elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998 and to the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1999, and to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020 . Furthermore, the Ministry of Science and Technology of Costa Rica grants (Ministry of Science and Technology) to Since 2013 Samuel I. Stupp Prize for achievements in the field of nanotechnology.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter S. (PDF; 1.4 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Accessed December 21, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Stupp, Samuel I.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stupp, Samuel; Stupp, Samuel Isaac (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist, materials scientist and biotechnologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH San Jose , Costa Rica