Lorraine Leon is an associate profesor in the UCF Department of Materials Science and Engineering. She joined UCF from a postdoctoral appointment at the Institute for Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory. She received her doctorate in chemical engineering from City University of New York and her bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Florida.
Leon is an experimentalist with research interests at the intersection of biomaterials and polymer science ranging from nanomedicine to catalysis. She was named an Emerging Investigator by the Journal of Materials Chemistry B in 2019, received an NSF CAREER award in 2021, and received a 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award in 2022.
Research Description
Molecular engineering and self assembly
Biomaterials
Polyelectrolyte complexation
Soft materials characterization
Nanomedicine