Prof. Svetlana Sukhishvili

Svetlana Sukhishvili joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in 2015 as a Full Professor. She received her Ph.D. from Moscow State University. She authored more than 190 publications (including 166 peer-reviewed journals, 8 book and encyclopedia chapters, 24 conference proceedings, and 4 patents) which were cited over 11750 times according to Google Scholar as of December 2023. Her h-index is 60. Dr. Sukhishvili received the Stevens Provost’s Entrepreneurship Award in 2013, the NSF Special Creativity Award 2012, a Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award from the American Coating Association 2009, and the Davis Award for Research Excellence 2011. In 2017. She was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2007. Her research interests include assembly of macromolecules at surfaces and in the bulk, environmentally responsive polymer materials, controlled delivery of bioactive molecules from surfaces, antibiofilm coatings, antioxidant polymers, diffusion of macromolecules in solution and at surfaces, gels for shape stabilization of thermal storage materials, and dynamic covalent polymer networks.