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Marcel Utz
Associate Professor
Telephone: 434-243-4098
Office: MEC 330
E-mail: mu3q@virginia.edu
Prof. Marcel Utz obtained a Diploma in Materials Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich in 1994. After a brief stay as a visiting scientist at the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT, he returned to Zürich to do postgraduate work under the guidance of Prof. U. W. Suter (polymer physics and chemistry) and R. R. Ernst (NMR spectroscopy, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1991). He obtained a doctorate of technical sciences from ETH (Dr. Sc. Techn.) in 1998, with a dissertation on the investigation of plastically deformed glassy polymers by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. He joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at Princeton University in 1999 as a postdoctoral associate, working on molecular simulations of shear and tensile stability of amorphous systems. In the spring of 2000, he joined the faculty of the Institute of Materials Science and the Department of Physics at the University of Connecticut.
His research interests focus on simulation and NMR spectroscopy of amorphous systems, including organic semiconductors, glassy polymers, and pharmaceutical excipients. More recently, his research activities have shifted towards NMR spectroscopy and imaging of transport processes in polyelectrolyte gels and microfluidic devices, as well as the coupling between mechanical behavior and molecular processes in fluidic systems.
He joined the faculty of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Virginia as an associate professor in the fall of 2006.
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