Honors and Distinctions:
- Fellow, American Physical Society
- Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
- Visiting Professor, University of Bordeaux/ICMCB CNRS
- External Advisory Board, NASA Center for Advanced Nanoscale Materials, UPR
- Samuel F. Conti Faculty Fellowship (2009)
- Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Accomplishment and Creative Activity (2007)
- Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (2000-2005)
- David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship for Science and Engineering (1998-2003)
- CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (1998-2002)
- 3M non-tenured Faculty Award (1998-2003)
Education
- B.S. Chemical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, 1987
- M.S. Chemical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, 1988
- Ph.D. Polymer Science & Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1997
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Email: watkins@polysci.umass.edu
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