Dr. Robert Tilton

Biography

Robert Tilton is a professor with joint appointments in the Department of Chemical Engineering and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, where he has been a faculty member since 1992. He serves as the Director of the Center for Complex Fluids Engineering. He earned his Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from the University of Delaware in 1986 and both his Master's and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University in 1987 and 1991, respectively. His Ph.D. research was directed by Professors Alice Gast and Channing Robertson and focused on colloid and surface chemistry, earning him the Victor K. LaMer Award from the American Chemical Society in 1993 for outstanding graduate research. He has conducted postdoctoral research in physical chemistry at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. Professor Tilton is a Fellow of both the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering and the American Chemical Society. His research group investigates fundamental nanoscale colloid science and its intersection with biomedical and environmental systems, developing innovations in drug delivery, particularly through surfactant-based aerosol carriers, and studying the interactions of nanomaterials with microbial communities.

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