Alfred Crosby

Associate Professor Alfred Crosby University of Massachusetts Amherst Polymer Science & Engineering 120 Governors Drive Amherst, MA USA 01003 Email: crosby@mail.pse.umass.edu Biographical Sketch: Crosby received his B.S. degree in Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of Virginia in 1996 and his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University in 2000. He was awarded a National Research Council Research Fellowship in 2000 to conduct his postdoctoral research in the Polymers Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. In 2002, he joined the faculty at UMass and has received many awards for his research, including the NSF CAREER Award, the ARO Young Investigator Award, the Adhesion Society Outstanding Young Scientist Award, the Rohm & Haas New Faculty Award, and the ACS Rubber Division’s Sparks-Thomas Award. His research interests include mechanics of hierarchical structures; polymer adhesion; biomimetic materials design; responsive surfaces and materials; elastic instabilities in polymer networks; deformation and fracture of thin films; polymer patterning; nanoparticle-polymer assemblies, and nanocomposites.