Craig Hawker, PhD

Polymers, US

Dr. Craig Hawker is the Co-Director of the California NanoSystems Institute and Director of the Dow Materials Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a Distinguished Professor, holds the Alan and Ruth Heeger Chair in Interdisciplinary Science and is the Clarke Professor within the California Nanosystems Institute.

Craig is also an award-winning polymer scientist with 75 US patents and co-authored over 600 papers in nanotechnology, materials science, and chemistry. He holds a BSc from the University of Queensland and a PhD from the University of Cambridge.