Christopher K. Ober

Christopher Ober is the Francis Bard Professor of Materials Science & Engineering at Cornell University.  He received his B.Sc. (Honours Chemistry) from the University of Waterloo, Canada and his PhD in Polymer Science & Engineering at UMass Amherst. After several years at the Xerox Research Centre of Canada working in marking technology, Ober arrived at Cornell University in 1986. His research is focused on lithography, patterning, the biology materials interface, and control of surface structure in thin films. 

He is the 2006 winner of the American Chemical Society (ACS) Award in Applied Polymer Science and received the Humboldt Research Prize in 2007. In 2009, Ober was named a Fellow of the ACS and was awarded the Gutenberg Research Prize by the University of Mainz. In 2014 he was a JSPS Fellow in Japan. More recently he was named a fellow of the APS (2014) and the AAAS (2015).