Dr. John B Matson

Professor Matson received his undergraduate degree majoring in Chemistry and German in 2004 at Washington University in St. Louis, performing undergraduate research with Professor Karen Wooley. He then moved to Caltech to pursue a PhD in the area of polymer synthesis with Professor Bob Grubbs. He graduated in 2009 and moved to Northwestern University where he was a postdoctoral scholar working on peptide-based biomaterials with Professor Sam Stupp. In 2012 he began his independent career at Virginia Tech in the Department of Chemistry, where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2018 and Professor in 2021. In 2020, he was named the Dr. AC Lilly, Jr. Faculty Fellow in Nanoscience. His research focuses on macromolecular and supramolecular chemistry with applications in biology, medicine, and sustainability.