Murugappan Muthukumar Wilmer D. Barrett Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering Department of Polymer Science and Engineering Room A212, Conte Research Center University of Massachusetts 120 Governors Drive Amherst, MA 01003 Phone: 413-577-1212; Fax: 413-545-0082 Email: muthu@polysci.umass.edu

Current Research Interests

• B.S. Chemistry, University of Madras, 1972
  
• Ph.D. Chemical Physics, The University of Chicago, 1979

• 1983-85 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
• 1986 Dillon Medal, American Physical Society
• 1987 Fellow of American Physical Society
• 1988 Maurice L. Huggin Memorial Award, Gordon Research
• 1997 Distinguished Faculty Lecturer, Chancellor's Medal, UMass
• 1998 Ford High Polymer Physics Prize, American Physical Society
• 1999 Miller Visiting Professor, University of California, Berkeley
• 2006 Humboldt Prize, Germany
• 2007 Gutenberg Award, University of Mainz, Germany

• Wilmer D. Barrett Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering, UMass, 2000-Present
• Professor, Polymer Science and Engineering Department, UMass, 1988-2000
• Associate Professor, Polymer Science and Engineering Department, UMass, 1983-1988
• Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1980-1983
• Research Associate, Cavendish Laboratory, Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, 1979-1981
• Adjunct Professor of Physics, UMass, 1988-present
• Adjunct Associate Editor (Soft Matter Physics) for Physical Review Letters, 1999-2007
• Currently, Associate Editor for The Journal of Chemical Physics