Dr. Jeffery L. White
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Office: 330D, HBRC
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK-74078
Lab: 310D, HBRC
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK-74078
Email: jeff.white@okstate.edu
Phone (office): 405-744-4547
Dr. Jeffery L. White joined Oklahoma State University in 2005 following a successful period as an assistant and associate professor of chemistry at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. Professor White has an extensive and varied background in scientific research, including appointments as a polymer research scientist with Exxon Chemical, a group leader in catalysis with ExxonMobil, and as a postdoctoral fellow with AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ. He was also named a 2010 Fulbright Research Fellow.
Professor White received his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in 1992, and was awarded the Outstanding Doctoral Research Award for those efforts. Dr. White serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for the American Chemical Society journal Macromolecules, which is the premier macromolecular science journal worldwide. In addition to the Fulbright, Dr. White has been honored with a DuPont Science and Engineering Award in 2003, and was selected as a Park Faculty Scholar at NCSU in 2005.
Education:
1987 B.S. Stephen F. Austin University
1992 Ph.D. Texas A&M University
Postdoctoral Appointments:
1992-93 AT&T Bell Laboratories; Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Professional Experience:
1993-2000 ExxonMobil; Senior Research Scientist
2000-2005 Assist. and Assoc. Professor, North Carolina State University
Professional Honors & Affiliations:
2010-2011 Fulbright Research Scholar
DuPont Science and Engineering Award (2003)
Editorial Advisory Board For ACS Journal Macromolecules
Research Interests:
Polymer materials, polymer physics, heterogeneous catalysis, biopolymer composites, NMR spectroscopy.
Soft matter and amorphous solids, and miscibility in mixtures of macromolecules.
Self-assembly in making hybrid materials