Darrin Pochan

Darrin Pochan
Chair, Department of Materials Science & Engineering
 

Darrin Pochan is professor and chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. His research expertise is in developing new nanostructures and functional soft materials through the assembly of polymers and biomolecules like peptides and proteins. Pochan, who joined the UD faculty in 1999, is a fellow of the American Physical Society, a fellow of the American Chemical Society and an active member of the Materials Research Society and the Neutron Scattering Society of America. Pochan is also an associate editor for the journal Soft Matter. He earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin Madison and a master’s degree and doctorate in polymer science and engineering from University of Massachusetts Amherst.