Joel Kaar is an Associate Professor in the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department at the University of Colorado Boulder and currently serves as an Associate Chair in the department. Prior to joining the faculty at CU in 2010, he received his BS and PhD under Professor Alan Russell in chemical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. Additionally, he was a postdoctoral associate at the Medical Research Council Centre for Protein Engineering in Cambridge, England, in Professor Sir Alan Fersht’s group. He has held an MRC Career Development Fellowship (2008-2010) and received the US Army Young Investigator (2012), NSF CAREER (2015), CU Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering Outstanding Junior Faculty (2016), CU Provost's Faculty Achievement (2016) and CU Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering Distinguished Performance (2019) awards.
Development of immobilization methods by which functional enzymes can be incorporated into stimuli-responsive liquid crystalline polymer networks (LCNs) and elastomers (LCEs).
