Dr. Shan Jiang

Dr. Shan Jiang is an Assistant Professor in Materials Science and Engineering department at Iowa State University. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, working with Professor Steve Granick on Janus particles. After graduation, he studied drug delivery at MIT Langer lab as a postdoc. He then worked at the Dow Chemical Company Coating Materials as a research scientist. He was the Certified Green Belt Project Leader and worked on binder platform development for different commercial products. Dr. Jiang edited the first book on Janus particles and has published more than 50 peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters. Dr. Jiang was awarded with the Racheff-Intel Award for Outstanding Graduate Research, the 3M non-tenured faculty award, ACS-PRF New Investigator Award and Early Achievement in Teaching Award. He has received funding support for both his research lab and education initiative from several federal agencies including NSF, USDA and NASA.