Matthew Webber
University of Notre Dame
Biography
Matthew Webber is the Keating-Crawford Collegiate Professor of Engineering, an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, and the Director of the Berthiaume Institute for Precision Health at the University of Notre Dame (USA). His research focuses on applying supramolecular principles and leveraging rationally designed non-covalent interactions, to advance biomaterials and drug delivery.
Professor Webber earned his BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University. He then trained as an NIH NRSA postdoctoral fellow at MIT. His contributions to the field have been recognized with several awards, including the NSF CAREER Award (2020), the AIChE Owens Corning Award (2023), and the ASEE Curtis McGraw Research Award (2024). He was elected a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) in 2023 and a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors in 2025.
RSC affiliations
Editorial board, Biomaterials Science