Ronald Larson

Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Michigan

Ronald Larson became a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan in 1996, after working for 17 years at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. Ronald Larson received a B.S in1975, an M.S. in 1977, and a Ph.D. in 1980, all in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota. Larson's research interests are in the structure and flow properties of viscous or elastic fluids, sometimes called "complex fluids", which include polymers, colloids, surfactant-containing fluids, liquid crystals, and biological macromolecules such as DNA. He has written two books on these subjects, including a 1998 textbook, "The Structure and Rheology of Complex Fluids." Larson was the President of the Society of Rheology (SOR) from 1997 to 1999, and is currently past President and member of the Executive Committee of that Society. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), and is a member of the SOR, the APS, the American Chemical Society (ACS), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the American Institute for Chemical Engineers (AIChE). In 1996, he was named the Prudential Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge England, and in 2000 was named the G.G. Brown Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan. He is also Chair of the Department.

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