Chemist and artist Carson Bruns will join CU 麻豆影院鈥檚 ATLAS Institute and the Mechanical Engineering Department as an assistant professor this fall.聽Currently a Miller Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, Bruns鈥� research interests span organic, inorganic, polymer and biochemistry, as well as materials science and engineering. His practice as an artist embraces digital / computer art, illustration, painting, photography and body art.
Bruns earned a Ph.D. in organic chemistry at Northwestern University in 2013, supervised by Fraser Stoddart and Samuel I. Stupp, and is co-author with Stoddart of the book, 鈥淭he Nature of the Mechanical Bond: From Molecules to Machines.鈥�