Michael Rubner, Ph.D.

Dr. Rubner received his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Massachusetts  Lowell (summa cum laude, 1982) and his Ph.D. in Materials Science & Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1986) while a staff member in GTE Laboratories, accruing over twelve years industrial experience before accepting a faculty position at MIT in 1986. He is currrently the Director of the Center for Materials Science and Engineering at MIT. Rubner has given more than 190 invited lectures and published more than 200 technical papers, including five book chapters, and is holder of nine U.S. patents. From 1995-1999, he was U. S. Editor of Supramolecular Science (Elsevier), and serves on the Board of Directors for the Materials Research Society. His current interests include molecularly assembled PEM thin films as multifunctional coatings providing new capabilities in thin film optics, extreme surface wetting and biomaterial interface design.