Principal Investigator
Charles M. Schroeder
Professor
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Princeton University
Email: cschroeder <at> princeton.edu
Phone: (609) 258-4586
Brief scientific biography:
Charles Schroeder is a Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University. He is also an Associated Faculty in the Princeton Materials Institute (PMI). Professor Schroeder received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1999, followed by an M.S. in 2001 and Ph.D. in 2005 in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University under the supervision of Professors Eric Shaqfeh and Steve Chu. He was also a K99/R00 NIH postdoctoral fellow and a Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University (2004-2007).
Professor Schroeder is the recipient of several awards, including a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, an NSF CAREER Award, the Arthur B. Metzner Award from the Society of Rheology, an NIH Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00), the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research at the University of Illinois, and the Vision and Spirit Award from the Beckman Institute. Professor Schroeder is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, 2022), a Fellow of The Society of Rheology (2023), and a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2023).
Prior to moving to Princeton University in August 2025, he was the James Economy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. At Illinois, he served as Co-Chair of the Molecular Science and Engineering Theme and Leader of the AI for Materials (AIM) Group in the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. He previously served as Associate Department Head in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Illinois.