Charles Schroeder is a Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University and Associated Faculty in the Princeton Materials Institute. Professor Schroeder received his B.S. degree in chemical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University (1999), followed by an M.S. (2001) and Ph.D. (2005) in chemical engineering from Stanford University under the supervision of Professors Eric Shaqfeh and Steve Chu. He was 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 Urbana-Champaign, 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).