Eric B Sirota
About
Eric B. Sirota received his PhD in Physics from Harvard in 1986, studying with Peter Pershan. He then came to Exxon’s Corporate Research lab in Clinton, New Jersey, as a post-doc working with Sunny Sinha and Cyrus Safinya. He never left.Eric became a fellow of the APS (Division of Condensed Matter Physics) in 2021 for pioneering X-ray scattering techniques in soft condensed matter, particularly for studying alkyl-chain crystallization. He continues to do fundamental soft condensed-matter physics, studying crystallization, phase-separation, and viscosity, in simple and complex hydrocarbon systems; Working at the interface of chemistry and engineering, he has been able to apply that science across a broad industry. He often says:“Alkanes don’t care what business sector they’re in; they crystallize when the physics says they should.”
Eric is also a composer/playwright, writing musical theatre. One of his 5 musicals, Frankenstein, was adapted as a movie after playing Off-Broadway for 3 years. He is currently developing another work about music and Alzheimer’s. (https://EricSirota.com)
