Join Seattle AWIS and Dr. Eleftheria Roumeli, Associate Professor in the Materials Science & Engineering department of the University of Washington for “Designing Sustainable Materials from Biological Feedstocks: From Seaweed Waste to Strong Plastics and Concrete”

Eleftheria Roumeli is an Associate Professor in the Materials Science & Engineering department of the University of Washington (UW). She leads the Sustainable Polymers lab at the UW, which currently consists of 35 students. With a focus on developing and understanding sustainable materials, her research group explores new families of bioplastics, biocomposites, and environmentally friendly construction materials derived from biological building blocks, and specifically from biopolymers. The group investigates the relationships between structure, processing, mechanical properties and life cycle impacts in these novel classes of sustainable materials.
Prior to joining UW, Eleftheria completed her postdoctoral training at the California Institute of Technology (2017-2020) and ETH Zurich (2015-2017) – both in Departments of Mechanical Engineering. She earned her B.S. (2009) and Ph.D. in Physics (2014) from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece, where her research focused on understanding the structure-property relationships in synthetic polymer nanocomposite materials. Eleftheria received the 2024 BioResources Early Career Investigator Award, the 2024 ACS PMSE Early Investigator Award, and was also voted UW MSE Faculty of the year for 2022, 2023 & 2024. She has given more than 40 invited talks and lectures in International Conferences and Department Seminars at Universities across the U.S.

Hybrid:

In person at Fred Hutch Cancer Center – Arnold Bldg, M1-A303
1305 Ward St., Seattle, WA 98109

Virtual by Zoom
Registration requested: https://seattleawis.org/events/

Free parking available in any Fred Hutch surface parking lots (garage is closed).