Editors’ Biographies
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Amanda S. Harper-Leatherman Amanda S. Harper-Leatherman received her bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN and her Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In graduate school she was involved in research studying the size-dependent electrochemical and spectroscopic properties of gold nanoparticles. After a post-doctoral position at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, she joined the faculty of Fairfield University in 2006 as an Assistant Professor. She was promoted to Associate Professor and awarded tenure in 2013. Her current research involves studying protein interactions with nanomaterials and highly porous aerogels.
Camille M. Solbrig Camille M. Solbrig’s interest in nanoscience and surface chemistry originated from her summer research experiences at IBM’s central research facility in Yorktown Heights, NY while still an undergraduate in chemistry at Penn State. Training in SEM and X-ray analysis followed, leading to a MS in Textile Science and a Ph.D. in Polymer Science elucidating polymer surface chemistry from Cornell. She then held industrial positions in research and development around the USA, before an interest in the intersection of biotechnology and polymeric materials led to research in degradable electro-spun scaffolding for tissue engineering and polymeric nanoparticles at Yale University. Her latest challenge has been teaching undergraduate chemistry at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, CT.
© 2014 American Chemical Society Harper-Leatherman and Solbrig; The Science and Function of Nanomaterials: From Synthesis to Application ACS Symposium Series; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 2014.
