Principal Investigator
Charles Schroeder is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University and Associated Faculty in the Princeton Materials Institute. He earned his B.S. degree in chemical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering from Stanford University, followed by a postdoc at Harvard University. He has been recognized with several awards and honors, including a Packard Fellowship, an NSF CAREER Award, the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, and the Arthur B. Metzner Award from the Society of Rheology. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Physical Society, and the Society of Rheology.
Postdocs
Babak Vajdi Hokmabad is an Associate Research Scholar in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tabriz (Iran) and his M.S. from the University of Alberta (Canada), before earning his Ph.D. in Physics from the Max Planck Institute for…
Xiaolin Liu is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University. She received her Ph.D. in Chemistry from HKUST in 2021 and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at UIUC until 2025. Her research focuses on precision macromolecular design for molecular electronics, with emphasis on sequence-defined…
Ph.D Students
Zaw is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. He received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2025. As an undergraduate student, he had extensive experience with electron microscopy and polymer processing. He is interested in single polymer dynamics and…
Sangwon is a Ph.D. student in Chemical & Biological Engineering. He received his B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Korea University in 2024. He is interested in designing enzyme-active materials and self-replicating polymers, as well as characterizing them using single-molecular imaging techniques. Outside the lab, Sangwon enjoys traveling, running, playing golf and tennis, and watching baseball.
Madi is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. She received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering with a minor in Spanish from the University of Maine, Orono. Her research passion is to develop polymeric materials to solve environmental and climate change related problems. Her research is focused on studying the…
Eden Li is working on understanding the dynamics of mixed-composition lipid vesicles in non-equilibrium conditions. He received his bachelor’s degree from UIUC in 2023. As an undergraduate, Eden had research experience in recovery rheology. Outside of the lab, he enjoys baking, reading, photo shooting, and playing badminton.
Jason is a PhD student in the Department of Chemistry co-advised with Prof. Nick Jackson. He received his B.S. in Chemistry and B.A. in Computer Science from Boston College in 2023. He is interested in applying machine learning towards the automated synthesis of small molecules and materials. Outside of the lab, Jason is an avid rock climber and enjoys watching sports.
Noah is a Ph.D. student in the CBE department. He received his B.S. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 2024. His research interests focus on the design of novel, sequence-defined oligomers for applications in photocatalysis. Broadly, he aims to leverage AI to guide the molecular design of functional…
