Dr. Lucas Landherr

Assistant Academic Specialist

B.S. (Chemical Engineering)
Lafayette College, 2005

Ph.D. (Chemical Engineering)
Cornell University, 2010

Contact
Phone: 617.373.8646
Email: l.landherr@neu.edu

Dr. Lucas Landherr received his Bachelor’s degree from Lafayette College in 2005 with an honors thesis studying drag-reducing polymers. He then completed his Ph.D. at Cornell University in 2010, developing and characterizing thin polymer films and brushes as nanoscale lubricants. While at Cornell, he received a GK-12 NSF Fellowship, with which he designed curriculum and physics experiments for high school classrooms. Most recently, Dr. Landherr completed an NRC Postdoctoral Research Associateship with the National Institute of Standards and Technology in 2012, where he conducted research on polymeric interactions with superhydrophobic surfaces.

Dr. Landherr has been appointed to Assistant Academic Specialist in the Department of Chemical Engineering, starting in the fall of 2012.



  • Contact

    Department of Chemical Engineering
    313 Snell Engineering Center
    Northeastern University
    360 Huntington Avenue
    Boston, MA 02115-5000

    Tel: (617) 373-2989
    Fax: (617) 373-2209