Professional Activities:

Professional Appointments                

2014 - Present

Associate Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech),
Virginia, United States of America

2010 - 2014

Maître-Assistant
Head of the Advanced Materials Group
Polymer Chemistry and Materials, AdolpheMerkle Institute (AMI)
University of Fribourg,Switzerland

2007 - 2009

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (w. Prof. Dr. E. W. ‘Bert’ Meijer),
Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry,
Technical University Eindhoven (TUe), Netherlands

2006

Independent Lecturer, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Teaching Experience

2013 - 2014

Instructor, AdolpheMerkle Institute Graduate Master Classes: “Nanoscience” “Polymer chemistry”, “Concepts in supramolecular chemistry” “Properties and experimental techniques in polymer science”
• Lecturing (35 non-specialiststudents)

2011 – 2014 lecturer, University of Fribourg, Dept. of Chemistry “Polymer Chemistry”
2006

Instructor, SFU Chemistry 281/286, Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Lab
• Lectured on organic chemistry techniques and procedures
• Instructed five separate lab sections a week consisting of 60 students

2002 - 2005

Teaching Assistant, SFU Advanced Synthetic Chemistry (CHEM 380)
• Lecturing and grading (40 students)

2002 - 2005

Teaching Assistant, SFU Organic Chemistry Lab (CHEM 281/286)
• Conducted lab lectures on organic chemistry
• Supervised completion of lab experiments

 

 

E Johan Foster, PhD

Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering 
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
Phone: 540-231-8165
E-mail: johanf@vt.edu