Christopher Johnson's Personal Website

The last few weeks have been a whirlwind of excitement. I’ve passed so many milestones where I’ve thought “okay, now I’m really a doctor.” At this point, it is all done, and I’m happy to say that I have successfully completed a Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. I defended my thesis, entitled “Structure and transport properties of nanoporous polymers derived from lyotropic mesophases.” I submitted a bunch of documents to my school and to journals. I walked across a stage! I got an envelope that said I walked across that stage! Amazing!

I thank a lot of people in my thesis, but the highlights here are my advisor Prof. Chinedum Osuji, my committee members Profs. Karen I. Winey, Daeyeon Lee, and Talid Sinno, my close labmates (Yvonne Zagzag and Ravisara Wattana especially), and my wife Sienna Pyle. A big thank you to everyone who has helped me or been a friend at some point in this massive undertaking. It means the world.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I am going to go take a nap.