Jonathan Whitmer
Associate Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Director of Graduate Studies, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Office
- 374 Nieuwland Science Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556 - jwhitme1@nd.edu
Biography
Jonathan Whitmer grew up in Wilson, Kansas, and attended Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas, where he was a dual major in mathematics and physics as well as a Goldwater Scholar. He then attended the University of Illinois and received MS and PhD degrees in physics working with Erik Luijten (now at Northwestern University). Following his PhD, Whitmer moved to the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering as a postdoctoral researcher. He was then a postdoctoral scientist at Argonne National Laboratory.
As Associate Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Notre Dame, Whitmer researches equilibrium and nonequilibrium polyelectrolytes, liquid crystalline gels, elastomers, and sensors, and colloidal clustering and assembly.