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Degree Information: Mailing Address: Phone: 413-577-0949 Email: dejeu@mail.pse.umass.edu Background Wim de Jeu is Research Professor and Director of X-Ray Facilities at the Department of Polymer Science and Engineering at UMass since September 2007. He is emeritus professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology and was previously scientific group leader at the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF) in Amsterdam. After his PhD and a year as post-doc, he joined in 1970 Philips' Research Laboratories in Eindhoven (Netherlands). In 1978 he became associate professor at the Solid State Physics Laboratory, University of Groningen, where he set up a research group on liquid crystal physics. In 1984 he joined the newly founded Open University of the Netherlands (Heerlen) as a full professor of science. In addition he became part-time associated with the FOM Institute AMOLF in Amsterdam, and started a new group Order/Disorder in Soft Matter. In 1997 he was appointed full-time as scientific group leader at AMOLF. During 1998 he was in charge of the development of the Dutch-Belgian beamline DUBBLE at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF, Grenoble, France). X-ray studies of soft matter at synchrotrons have been a constant factor in his scientific life during the last decades, and since 2005 he is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the ESRF. In 1999 he was appointed as part-time professor ÔPhysical characterization of polymersÕ at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Wim de Jeu has authored two
monographs: Physical Properties of Liquid Crystalline Materials (Gordon and Breach, New York, 1980), which has also
been translated into Russian (Mir Publishers, Moscow, 1982) and into Japanese
(Kyoritsu Shuppan Publishers, Tokyo, 1991), and together with G. Vertogen Thermotropic
Liquid Crystals, Fundamentals (Springer,
Berlin, 1988). Research interest During the last decade research
has been concentrated on x-ray investigations of the structure and morphology
of block copolymers with competing interactions and on nanostructures in block copolymer
films. In addition small- and wide-angle x-ray scattering has been applied to
investigate ordering and crystallisation of polymers, quiescent and under
shear. Another focus has been the structure and fluctuations of soft matter at
low dimensionality, recently especially in smectic polymers and elastomers. At present block copolymer
structures and morphologies – both in bulk and in thin films – are
a subject of continuing interest, further developed in cooperation with various
groups at PSE. Another subject is the study of wrinkling and crumpling of thin
polymer films, in cooperation with the Russell-group and the Physics Department
at UMass. Finally research is still going on regarding order and disorder in
smectic liquid crystalline elastomers (cooperation with Finkelmann, Freiburg,
Germany). |