Jeffrey Morris - President

Jeff Morris is Director of the Levich Institute since 2015 and Professor of Chemical Engineering at CUNY City College of New York (CCNY). He previously served as the Chair of the CCNY Department of Chemical Engineering from 2013 to 2016. He received his bachelor’s degree at Georgia Tech (1989), and his MS (1991) and Ph.D. (1995) at Caltech, all in Chemical Engineering. He has worked industrially for Shell Research Amsterdam (1994-1995) and Halliburton Energy Services (2002-2004).

In his research, Morris performs simulations of suspensions, and develops constitutive and bulk fluid mechanical descriptions appropriate for these and other complex fluids. Morris has recently focused on instabilities due to inertia in flows of suspensions, and on frictional interactions of particles in viscous liquids, toward understanding shear thickening and jamming.

Morris was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2013 and of the Society of Rheology (SOR) in 2019. He was awarded the 2017 AICHE/Shell Thomas Baron Award for Fluid-Particle Systems, the 2019 Stanley Corrsin Award of the APS, the 2022 Weissenberg Award of the European Society of Rheology, and the 2023 Bingham Medal of the SOR.

Prior to becoming President of the SOR, Jeff Morris served as Secretary-Treasurer of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (2018-2021), and since 2016 he has served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics. For the years 2023-2026, he has been named one of the inaugural “Fellow-Ambassadors” by the French CNRS.