Konrad Hedderick
Curriculum Vitae
Education:
Ph.D. (Materials Science & Engineering) - Cornell University (2023)
B.S. (Materials Science & Engineering) - Northwestern University (2017)
Biography:
Konrad Radziszewski Hedderick is from Boston, Massachusetts, but also grew up in Żyrardów, Poland. He graduated in 2017 from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Science in Materials Science and Engineering. There he worked in the lab of Prof. Chad Mirkin on Nanostructuring of Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskites w/ Novel Plasmonics for Solar Cell Applications under Dr. Michael Ashley. There he was first exposed to electrodeposition, plasmonics, nanoparticle sysnthesis and much more, sparking his interest in attending grad school. In Fall of 2017 he started his graduate work at Cornell University in the labs of Profs. Lara Estroff and Ulrich Wiesner on a joint project investigating Fluid Cell AFM Techniques to Study the Interfacial Structure of Hydrated Soft Matter Templates. During this time, he was fortunate enough to win a DOE SCGSR Fellowship to work with Dr. Jinhui Tao (alongside Dr. Elias Nakouzi and Prof. Jim DeYoreo) at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to advance Atomic Force Microscopy techniques. In 2024 he joined the group of Prof. Takuji Adachi at the Université de Genève to work on the exciting joint projects of complex self-assembéy of novel sequence defined polymers and coupled Raman/DLS spectroscopy of initial nucleation stages of crystalline materials.