OBERFEST 2024
Dates: Oct. 4 and 5
Location: Ithaca, NY
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Ober Research Group
Research in the Ober Group at Cornell University focuses on creating new polymeric materials and refining their properties with a fundamental understanding of their physical behaviour. We work to apply these novel materials in areas ranging from lithography, to biointerfaces, to flexible electronics. We are a multidisciplinary group consisting of students enrolled in the Departments of Materials Science & Engineering, Chemistry & Chemical Biology, and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Our tools include self-assembly and directed assembly, of which lithography is an important part.
Announcement
The Ober and Yu groups at Cornell University are looking for up to two post-doctoral associates with expertise in polymer chemistry to work on a project involving the design of photoresist polymers suitable for extreme ultraviolet lithography. This leading edge, industry-supported program is working to identify breakthrough strategies and new polymer compositions for enabling the next generation of electronics. While technically relevant, the work is expected to lead to high impact publications.
At present we are looking into scissionable polymers for this next generation lithography that form sub-15 nm patterns using PFAS-free patterning chemistry. Familiarity with photoresist chemistry, photoactive compounds and/or expertise in transition metal catalysis is considered an asset.
Those interested in applying for the position, please send your application letter, your resume and have two letters of recommendation forwarded to: cko3@cornell.edu and yz2833@cornell.edu
Recent News
Congratulations to Dr. Chaoqiuyu (Rachel) Wang for successfully defending her thesis! Wish you all the best for your future careers!
Congratulations to Swapnil Madan Vaidya for successfully defending his Master thesis! Wish you all the best for your future careers!
Congratulations to Dr. Yuming (Robin) Huang for successfully defending her thesis! Wish you all the best for your postdoc position at Northwestern University!
Congratulations to Chaoqiuyu (Rachel) for winning the best presentation award among international students at the Tokyo Tech Academy for Convergence of Materials and Informatics International Forum!
Congratulations to Prof. Ober for being elected to the National Academy of Engineering!
Welcome new members to our group: Yu!
Welcome new members to our group: Madan and Cem!
Several Ober group members participated in ACS Fall 2023 National Meeting in San Francisco, CA.
Several Ober group members participated in ACS Spring 2023 National Meeting in Indianapolis, IN.
Congratulations to Chenyun for winning the best presentation award among overseas students at the Tokyo Tech Academy for Convergence of Materials and Informatics International Forum!
Chaoqiuyu (Rachel) and Yuming (Robin) presented their talks and posters in ACS Fall 2022 National Meeting in Chicago.
Congratulations to Dr. Jingyuan Deng for successfully defending his thesis! Wish you all the best for your future careers!
Prof. Ober participated in High Polymer Research Group Conference as invited speaker at Pott Shrigley, Cheshire, UK.
Several Ober group members participated in ACS Spring 2022 National Meeting in San Diego. We were happy to meet some of our group alumni Prof. Shu Yang and Dr. Hilmar Koerner during this event.
Welcome new members to our group: Yixin (Janet)!
Congratulations to Chaoqiuyu (Rachel) for winning the best poster award at ACS Fall 2021 National Meeting Atlanta!
Welcome new members to our group: Zhenglin!
Welcome new members to our group: Gozde, Riddhiman, Francesca, Nila and Lexie!
Congratulations to Dr. Hai Quang Tran for successfully defending his thesis! Wish you all the best for your future careers!
Yuming (Robin) starts her visiting at Peking University.
Congratulations to Dr. Amanda Leonardi, Dr. Alicia Cintora and Abhaiguru Ravirajan for successfully defending their thesis! Wish you all the best for your future careers!
Congratulations to Nick Diaco for winning the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship! Please click here for more information.
Welcome new members to our group: Chenyun!
Congratulations to Dr. Ziwei Liu for successfully defending her thesis! Wish you all the best for your future career at Brewer Science!
Our group member Alicia Cintora is featured on Student Spotlight by the MSE Department!
Welcome new members to our group: Chaoqiuyu (Rachel) and Sean!
Congratulations to Alicia Cintora for winning the blue ribbon for PMSE best poster candidate at ACS National Meeting San Diego!
Congratulations to Dr. Yiren Zhang for successfully defending his thesis! Wish you all the best for your future career at Pall Corporation!
Congratulations to Dung Yi Wu for successfully defending his Master thesis! Wish you all the best for your Ph.D study at Johns Hopkins University!
Congratulations to Kou Yang for successfully defending her Master thesis! Wish you all the best for your Ph.D study at National University of Singapore!
Welcome Prof. Qi-Feng Zhou, the president of IUPAC and former president of Peking University, for visiting our group! We are so glad to meet you!
Welcome new members to our group: Florian, Yuming (Robin), Yinglu, Jingyuan and Abhaiguru!
Congratulations to Dr. Roselynn Cordero for successfully defending her thesis! Wish you all the best for your career at 3M!
Check out our recent article on 3D Printing with 2 Photon Lithography at Soft Materials Microscale 2 Photon Lithography
Congratulations to Ziwei Liu for winning the blue ribbon for PMSE best poster candidate at 256th ACS national meeting!
Congratulations to Dr. Wei-Liang Chen for successfully defending his thesis! Wish you all the best for your postdoc position at the University of Pennsylvania!
Congratulations to Dr. Hong Xu for being an Assistant Professor at Tsinghua University!
Congratulations to Chengjian Shi for successfully defending his Master thesis! Wish you all the best for your Ph.D study at the University of Chicago!
We have positions available for new Ph.D students joining in Fall 2018. We are looking for students in the Chemistry, MSE, and Chemical Engineering departments.
Ober group featured on CornellResearch.
Congratulations to Roselynn Cordero for winning the blue ribbon for PMSE best poster candidate at ACS meeting!
Congratulations to Hong Xu for being a Father!
Alicia starts her visiting at TokyoTech
Congratulations to Aibar Nurmukhanov for successfully defending his Master thesis! Wish you all the best!
Congratulations to Fan Fan for successfully defending her Master thesis! Wish you all the best!
Congratulations to Dr. Katherine Camera for successfully defending her thesis! Wish you all the best!
Congratulations to Dr. Brandon Wenning for successfully defending his thesis! Wish you all the best for working at Dow!
Symposium X talk given by Prof. Ober at MRS meeting : Fifty Years of Moore's Law: Towards Fabrication at Molecular Dimensions
Prof. Ober will be giving the Symposium X talk at the MRS meeting in Boston on Dec. 3 Thursday!
Prof. Ober received The Photopolymer Science and Technology Award 151100, The Outstanding Achievement Award 2015. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Mufei Yu for successfully defending her Master thesis! Wish you all the best for working at Intel!
Congratulations to Jing Jiang for successfully defending her thesis!Wish you all the best for working at imec!
Congratulations to Alicia Cintora for winning NSF Graduate Fellowship!
Congratulations to David Calabrese for successfully defending his thesis!
Congratulations to Prof. Ober for elected as 2014 fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science! (AAAS)
Congratulations to David Calabrese for winning the MSE poster competition! (sponsored by Proctor and Gamble)
Congratulations to Carin Lightner for successfully defending her thesis!
Dr. Ober is visiting University of Freiburg
Congratulations to Jing Jiang for winning the SPIE Advanced Lithography 2013 Byers Award!
Congratulations to Byungki Jung for successfully defending his thesis!
Congratulations to Carol Newby for successfully defending her thesis!
Congratulations to Carol Newby for winning the Nellie Whetten award!
Congratulations to Lin Chen, Liz Welch and Christine Ouyang for successfully defending their theses!
Congratulations to Marie Krysak for successfully defending her thesis, and to Byungki Jung for winning the Best-in-Session award for his talk at the TECHCON 2012 Conference! Congratulations to Alwin Wan for successfully defending his thesis!
Congratulations to Zhaoli Zhou for successfully defending her thesis