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Ober Research Group

Research in the Ober Group at Cornell University focuses on creating new polymeric materials and refining their properties with a fundamental understanding of their physical behaviour. We work to apply these novel materials in areas ranging from lithography, to biointerfaces, to flexible electronics. We are a multidisciplinary group consisting of students enrolled in the Departments of Materials Science & Engineering, Chemistry & Chemical Biology, and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Our tools include self-assembly and directed assembly, of which lithography is an important part.

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Announcement

Postdoc Positions Available


We have positions available for postdoctoral associates with:

  1. an interest in the design, synthesis and evaluation of photoresists for advanced EUV lithography,
  2. polymer grafted nanoparticles and pre ceramic polymers and
  3. anti-fouling marine coatings.

Experienced and qualified candidates with a PhD in chemistry, chemical engineering or materials science should make contact as soon as convenient.

Please email Prof. Ober at c.ober@cornell.edu

Recent News

March 2024

Prof. Ober accepting the SPIE Willson Award on behalf of former post-doc Florian Kaefer at the 2024 San Jose SPIE Litho meeting.

CHiPPS EFRC members attending SPIE meeting, winter 2024.
(Look for Chenyun Yuan, Ober group.)

December 2023

Congratulations to Chaoqiuyu (Rachel) for winning the best presentation award among international students at the Tokyo Tech Academy for Convergence of Materials and Informatics International Forum!

October 2023

Congratulations to Prof. Ober for being elected to the National Academy of Engineering!

August 2023

Several Ober group members participated in ACS Fall 2023 National Meeting in San Francisco, CA.

March 2023

Several Ober group members participated in ACS Spring 2023 National Meeting in Indianapolis, IN.

December 2022

Congratulations to Chenyun for winning the best presentation award among overseas students at the Tokyo Tech Academy for Convergence of Materials and Informatics International Forum!

August 2022

Chaoqiuyu (Rachel) and Yuming (Robin) presented their talks and posters in ACS Fall 2022 National Meeting in Chicago.

Congratulations to Dr. Jingyuan Deng for successfully defending his thesis! Wish you all the best for your future careers!

April 2022

Prof. Ober participated in High Polymer Research Group Conference as invited speaker at Pott Shrigley, Cheshire, UK.

March 2022

Several Ober group members participated in ACS Spring 2022 National Meeting in San Diego. We were happy to meet some of our group alumni Prof. Shu Yang and Dr. Hilmar Koerner during this event.

February 2022

Welcome new members to our group: Yixin (Janet)!

August 2021

Congratulations to Chaoqiuyu (Rachel) for winning the best poster award at ACS Fall 2021 National Meeting Atlanta!

May 2021

Welcome new members to our group: Zhenglin!

January 2021

Welcome new members to our group: Gozde, Riddhiman, Francesca, Nila and Lexie!

Congratulations to Dr. Hai Quang Tran for successfully defending his thesis! Wish you all the best for your future careers!

October 2020

Yuming (Robin) starts her visiting at Peking University.

July 2020

Congratulations to Dr. Amanda Leonardi, Dr. Alicia Cintora and Abhaiguru Ravirajan for successfully defending their thesis! Wish you all the best for your future careers!

April 2020

Congratulations to Nick Diaco for winning the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship! Please click here for more information.

February 2020

Welcome new members to our group: Chenyun!

January 2020

Congratulations to Dr. Ziwei Liu for successfully defending her thesis! Wish you all the best for your future career at Brewer Science!

December 2019

Our group member Alicia Cintora is featured on Student Spotlight by the MSE Department!

October 2019

Welcome new members to our group: Chaoqiuyu (Rachel) and Sean!

August 2019

Congratulations to Alicia Cintora for winning the blue ribbon for PMSE best poster candidate at ACS National Meeting San Diego!

Congratulations to Dr. Yiren Zhang for successfully defending his thesis! Wish you all the best for your future career at Pall Corporation!

June 2019

Congratulations to Dung Yi Wu for successfully defending his Master thesis! Wish you all the best for your Ph.D study at Johns Hopkins University!

May 2019

Congratulations to Kou Yang for successfully defending her Master thesis! Wish you all the best for your Ph.D study at National University of Singapore!

April 2019

Welcome Prof. Qi-Feng Zhou, the president of IUPAC and former president of Peking University, for visiting our group! We are so glad to meet you!

November 2018

Welcome new members to our group: Florian, Yuming (Robin), Yinglu, Jingyuan and Abhaiguru!

October 2018

Congratulations to Dr. Roselynn Cordero for successfully defending her thesis! Wish you all the best for your career at 3M!

September 2018

Check out our recent article on 3D Printing with 2 Photon Lithography at Soft Materials Microscale 2 Photon Lithography

August 2018

Congratulations to Ziwei Liu for winning the blue ribbon for PMSE best poster candidate at 256th ACS national meeting!

June 2018

Congratulations to Dr. Wei-Liang Chen for successfully defending his thesis! Wish you all the best for your postdoc position at the University of Pennsylvania!

Congratulations to Dr. Hong Xu for being an Assistant Professor at Tsinghua University!

May 2018

Congratulations to Chengjian Shi for successfully defending his Master thesis! Wish you all the best for your Ph.D study at the University of Chicago!

March 2018

We have positions available for new Ph.D students joining in Fall 2018. We are looking for students in the Chemistry, MSE, and Chemical Engineering departments.

February 2018

Ober group featured on CornellResearch.

April 2017

Congratulations to Roselynn Cordero for winning the blue ribbon for PMSE best poster candidate at ACS meeting!

October 2016

Congratulations to Hong Xu for being a Father!

Sep 2016

Alicia starts her visiting at TokyoTech

August 2016

Congratulations to Aibar Nurmukhanov for successfully defending his Master thesis! Wish you all the best!

July 2016

Congratulations to Fan Fan for successfully defending her Master thesis! Wish you all the best!

Jun 2016

Congratulations to Dr. Katherine Camera for successfully defending her thesis! Wish you all the best!

March 2016

Congratulations to Dr. Brandon Wenning for successfully defending his thesis! Wish you all the best for working at Dow!

December 2015

Symposium X talk given by Prof. Ober at MRS meeting : Fifty Years of Moore's Law: Towards Fabrication at Molecular Dimensions

September 2015

Prof. Ober will be giving the Symposium X talk at the MRS meeting in Boston on Dec. 3 Thursday!

August 2015

Prof. Ober received The Photopolymer Science and Technology Award 151100, The Outstanding Achievement Award 2015. Congratulations!

*Detail of the award

*Videos of award ceremony

*Previous award winner

August 2015

Congratulations to Mufei Yu for successfully defending her Master thesis! Wish you all the best for working at Intel!

July 2015

Congratulations to Jing Jiang for successfully defending her thesis!Wish you all the best for working at imec!

April 2015

Congratulations to Alicia Cintora for winning NSF Graduate Fellowship!

January 2015

Congratulations to David Calabrese for successfully defending his thesis!

November 2014

Congratulations to Prof. Ober for elected as 2014 fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science! (AAAS)

October 2014

Congratulations to David Calabrese for winning the MSE poster competition! (sponsored by Proctor and Gamble)

July 2014

Congratulations to Carin Lightner for successfully defending her thesis!

Summer 2014

Dr. Ober is visiting University of Freiburg

January 2014

Congratulations to Jing Jiang for winning the SPIE Advanced Lithography 2013 Byers Award!

December 2013

Congratulations to Byungki Jung for successfully defending his thesis!

October 2013

Congratulations to Carol Newby for successfully defending her thesis!

Summer 2013

Congratulations to Carol Newby for winning the Nellie Whetten award!

Congratulations to Lin Chen, Liz Welch and Christine Ouyang for successfully defending their theses!

September 2012

Congratulations to Marie Krysak for successfully defending her thesis, and to Byungki Jung for winning the Best-in-Session award for his talk at the TECHCON 2012 Conference! Congratulations to Alwin Wan for successfully defending his thesis!

August 2012

Congratulations to Zhaoli Zhou for successfully defending her thesis