University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota
David Flannigan is the L.E. Scriven Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Minnesota and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, respectively. At Illinois, he studied single-bubble sonoluminescence with Prof. Ken Suslick, for which he received the T. S. Piper Outstanding Thesis Award. Following this, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar at Caltech and worked on the development and application of ultrafast electron microscopy with Prof. Ahmed Zewail. He joined the faculty at Minnesota in 2012 and has held the Mayon Plastics Professorship and a McKnight Land-Grant Professorship. He has also received the George W. Taylor Career Development Award from the College of Science and Engineering and a McKnight Presidential Fellowship from the University. His group’s work has been recognized with a Beckman Young Investigator Award, an NSF CAREER Award, a DOE Early Career Award, and a Sigma Xi Young Investigator Award.