Alejandro Rey

Department of Chemical Engineering

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Professor Rey has been a faculty member at McGill University since 1988 and is now James McGill Professor of Chemical Engineering and executive member of the McGill Advanced Materials Institute. He was the 2006 Olaf A. Hougen Visiting Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is a member of the McGill Center for Nonlinear Dynamics in Physiology and Medicine, the McGill Center for Self-Assembled Chemical Structures, the NSF-Engineering Research Center for Advanced Fibers and Films at Clemson University, and the Director of the McGill Materials Modeling Group. Professor Rey's research interests include computational material science of structural and functional materials, thermodynamics and interfacial science of soft matter, biological materials, biological polymer processing, and liquid crystal physics.

Available PhD Projects (2008/2009)

1. Computational Modeling of Collagen Self-Assembly and Rheology

Topics: biomaterials, soft mater, biophysics, rheology and thermodynamics of complex fluids.

2. Computational modeling of membrane and biomembrane electro-mechanics (NSERC Funded)

Topics: membrane mechanics, computational material science, electro-mechanics of membranes and interfaces, rheology and thermodynamics of membranes, biological sensors and actuators, biological mechano-transduction.

3. Molecular Modeling of Polymer-Dispersed Electro-Optical Materials

Topics: molecular modeling, polymer and liquid crystal material science, electro-optics, display devices.

4. Computational Thermodynamics and Rheology of Anisotropic Gels

Topics: biopolymer science, thermodynamics and rheology of complex fluids.