Soft Matter Seminar: Jeff Morris (CCNY)
Bio: After earning his Ph.D. degree from Caltech and working as a postdoc in Shell, Amsterdam in 1995, Jeff Morris joined Georgia Tech as an assistant professor (1996-2002). Subsequently, he worked with Halliburton as the Senior Scientific Advisor (2002-2004) and joined The City College of New York (CCNY) in 2005 where he has been since.
Morris served as the chair of chemical engineering at CCNY (2013-2016) and acting director of the Levich Institute (2015) before being appointed as its director in January 2016 and continuing to the present. The list of past directors of the Benjamin Levich institute includes eminent engineering scientists Benjamin Levich, Andreas Acrivos and Morton Denn.
He has over 12,000 citations (Google Scholar), several patents and has authored a book titled A Physical Introduction to Suspension Dynamics, with E. Guazzelli (CNRS). He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics and is on the Editorial Boards of Rheologica Acta and the International Journal of Multiphase Flow. He has received several honors and awards, including the Journal of Rheology Publication Award (2015 and 2020), the 2019 Corrsin Award of the American Physical Society, 2022 Weissenberg Award of the European Society of Rheology, and the 2023 Bingham Medal of the Society of Rheology.
