Dale W. Schaefer, Ph.D.

Dr. Schaefer is Professor of Chemical and Materials Engineering and former Dean of Engineering at the University of Cincinnati. He earned his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry and performed post-doctoral studies in Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Schaefer was a technical manager at Sandia National Labs and a Senior Technical Advisor at the DoE. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Institute of Chemists. He was the 2004 John Wheatley Scholar and is a member of the Materials Program Advisory Committee and the User Group Executive Committee of the Lujan Neutron Scattering Center at Los Alamos National Labs. Prof. Schaefer is a specialist in structure-property relations, light, x-ray and neutron scattering. Recent projects include water-barrier properties of silane films, non-chromate corrosion inhibitors, morphology of reinforcing fillers for rubbers, antifouling polymers for desalination membranes and carbon and clay nanocomposites.