Elsa Reichmanis

Elsa Reichmanis is Professor and Carl Robert Anderson Chair in Chemical Engineering in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Lehigh University. Prior to joining Lehigh, she was Pete Silas Chair in Chemical Engineering at Georgia Tech. After receiving her PhD and BS degrees in chemistry from Syracuse University, she started her independent career at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ, where she was named Bell Labs Fellow and rose to be Director of the Materials Research Department. Her research interests include the chemistry, properties and application of materials technologies for photonic and electronic applications. She has had impact in the design of new imaging chemistries for advanced lithographic applications, and designed one of the first, readily accessible and manufacturable polymers for advanced silicon device manufacturing using 193 nm lithography. The Reichmanis Research Group is currently exploring polymeric and hybrid organic/inorganic materials chemistries for a range of (opto)electronic device and sustainable energy applications. Her research, at the interface of chemical engineering, chemistry, and materials science, spans from fundamental concept to technology development and implementation, with particular focus on polymeric and nanostructured materials for advanced technologies.