Charles Schroeder - Member at Large

Charles M. Schroeder is a Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University and an Associated Faculty member of the Princeton Materials Institute. He received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University (1999), followed by an M.S. (2001) and Ph.D. (2005) in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University, where he worked with Professors Eric Shaqfeh and Steven Chu. Following his Ph.D., Dr. Schroeder was an NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Awardee and a Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University. Dr. Schroeder’s honors include the Arthur B. Metzner Award from the Society of Rheology, the Publication Award from the Society of Rheology, a David and Lucile Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, an NSF CAREER Award, and the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research at Illinois. Dr. Schroeder is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a Fellow of the Society of Rheology (SOR), and a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS).

Dr. Schroeder has been a member of the Society of Rheology since 2001. Charles’s service to the Society includes serving as Technical Co-Chair for the 2022 SOR Annual Meeting in Chicago; member of the Metzner Award Committee (2022-2025; Chair in 2025); member of the SOR Membership Committee (2013-2020); Guest Editor for the Journal of Rheology, special issue on Ring Polymers; member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Rheology (2022-present); Session Chair for multiple sessions at prior SOR Annual meetings and ICR meetings; and instructor for a Short Course on Microfluidics and Applications at the 2013 SOR Annual Meeting. He also served on the Program Committee for AIChE Area 01J (Fluid Mechanics) for 10 years, in addition to serving as the 2014 Meeting Programming Chair. He is currently serving on the APS DPOLY Program Committee and will be Programming Chair in APS DPOLY in 2027.

Dr. Schroeder’s research focuses on the non-equilibrium dynamics and rheology of soft materials, including polymers, lipid vesicles, and capillary suspensions, using single molecule techniques and optical imaging. His work aims to develop a molecular understanding of soft matter dynamics, bridging the gap between molecular properties and bulk-scale phenomena. Current research topics in molecular rheology are centered on understanding the non-equilibrium dynamics of entangled and architecturally complex polymers, as well as the conformational dynamics of vesicles and the phase behavior of multi-component lipid membranes in flow. In addition, his recent work has focused on understanding the structure and dynamics of colloidal clusters and capillary suspensions using automated flow control via the Stokes trap - a new method for manipulating particles or molecules using only fluid flow.