Positions Held

	2007-present		Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
	2004-2007		Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Education

September 2004

Ph.D., Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 19106

May 1997

B.A., Physics, Cornell University, cum laude, Ithaca, NY 14859

Awards and Honors

September 1, 2009

CAREER Award, National Science Foundation

July 5, 2006

Glenn Brown Prize, International Liquid Crystal Society

May 1997

Outreach Award, Materials Research Laboratory, UCSB

Publications

2009	D.R. Nelson, R.D. Kamien, C.D. Santangelo and V. Vitelli, "Extrinsic Curvature, Geometric Optics, and Lamellar Order on Curved Substrates," accepted to Physical Review E (2009). [ARXIV] [PDF]
	H. Shin, G.M. Grason and C.D. Santangelo, "Soft sphere mesophases," Soft Matter 5, 3629-3638 (2009). [ARXIV] [PDF]
	C.D. Santangelo, "Buckling thin disks and ribbons with non-Euclidean metrics," EPL 86 (2009) 34003. [ARXIV] [PDF]
2008	M.L. Henle, B.A. DiDonna, C.D. Santangelo and A. Gopinathan, "Diffusion and binding of finite-size particles in confined geometries," Phys. Rev. E 78 (2008) 031118. [ARXIV] [PDF]
	Christian D. Santangelo, "The Geometry and Elasticity of Liquid Crystals" in Curvature and Variational Modeling in Physics and Biophysics, AIP Conference Proceedings 1002 (2008). [ARXIV] [PDF]
	Christian D. Santangelo and Oded Farago, "Membrane Fluctuations Around Inclusions" J. Computer-Aided Mat. Des. 14 (2008) 103-109. [ARXIV] [PDF]
2007	Christian D. Santangelo, Vincenzo Vitelli, Randall D. Kamien, and David R. Nelson, "Geometric Theory of Columnar Phases on Curved Substrates" Phys. Rev. Lett. 99 (2007) 017801 [cond-mat/0703206]. Selected as an Editor's suggestion [ARXIV] [PDF]
	M.A. Glaser, G.M. Grason, R.D. Kamien, A. Kovsmrlj, C.D. Santangelo, and P. Ziherl, "Soft Spheres Make More Mesophases", Europhysics Lett. 78 (2007) 46004 [cond-mat/0609570]. [ARXIV] [PDF]
	C.D. Santangelo, "Geometry and the nonlinear elasticity of defects in smectic liquid crystals", Liquid Crystals Today 15 (2007) 11. [ARXIV] [PDF]
	C.D. Santangelo and R.D. Kamien, "Triply-periodic smectic liquid crystals," Physical Review E 75 (2007) 011702 [cond-mat/0609596]. [ARXIV] [PDF]
2006	G.M. Grason and C.D. Santangelo, "Undulated Cylinders of Diblock Copolymers," Eur. Phys. J. E 20 (2006) 335 [cond-mat/0605076] [ARXIV] [PDF]
	R.D. Kamien and C.D. Santangelo, "Smectic Liquid Crystals: Materials with one-dimensional, periodic order," Geometriae Dedicata 120 (2006) 229. [math.DG/0601494] [ARXIV] [PDF]
	C.D. Santangelo and R.D. Kamien, "Elliptic Phases: A study of the nonlinear elasticity of twist-grain boundaries," Phys. Rev. Lett. 96 (2006) 137801. [ARXIV] [PDF]
	C.D. Santangelo, "Computing counterion densities at intermediate coupling," Phys. Rev. E 73 (2006) 041512. [ARXIV] [PDF]
2005	M.C. Choi, C.D. Santangelo, O. Pelletier, S.Y. Kwon, J.H. Kim, Z. Wen, Y. Li, C.R. Safinya, and M.W. Kim, "First experimental observation of biaxial confinement of a semi-flexible filament in a channel," Macromolecules 38 (2005) 9882-9884. [PDF]
	C.D. Santangelo and R.D. Kamien, "Curvature and topology in smectic-A liquid crystals," Proc. R. Soc. A 461, (2005) 2911-2921. [PDF]
	C.D. Santangelo and L. Blum, "Interaction between two rows of localized adsorption sites in a 2D one-component plasma," Cond. Matt. Phys. 8 (2005) 325. [ARXIV] [PDF]
	O. Farago and C.D. Santangelo, "Pore formation in fluctuating membranes," J. Chem. Phys. 112 (2005) 044901. [ARXIV] [PDF]
2004	J.L. Ross, C.D. Santangelo, V. Makrides, and D.K. Fygenson, "Tau induces cooperative taxol binding to microtubules," Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 101 (2004) 12910-12915. [PDF]
	C.D. Santangelo and A.W.C. Lau, "Effects of counterion fluctuations in a polyelectrolyte brush," Eur. Phys. J. E 13 (2004) 335-344. [ARXIV] [PDF]
	M. Henle, C.D. Santangelo, D. Patel and P. Pincus, "Distribution of counterions near discretely charged planes and rods," Europhys. Lett. 66 (2004) 284. [ARXIV] [PDF]
up to 2003	C.D. Santangelo and R.D. Kamien, "Bogomol'nyi, Prasad, Sommerfeld configurations in smectics," Phys. Rev. Lett. 91 (2003) 045506. [ARXIV] [PDF]
	C.D. Santangelo and P.Pincus, "Coiling instabilities in multilamellar tubes," Phys. Rev. E 66 (2002) 061501. [ARXIV] [PDF]
	R. Ragnarsson, J.L. Ford, C.D. Santangelo and E. Bodenschatz, "Rifts in spreading wax layers," Phys. Rev. Lett. 76 (1996) 3456. [PDF]

Selected Presentations

November 3, 2009, "Programmable Buckling: Shaping thin films with inhomogeneous swelling," seminar, MIT Physical Mathematics Seminar, Department of Mathematics October 28, 2009, "Programmable Buckling: Shaping thin films with inhomogeneous swelling," seminar, University of Delaware, Department of Materials Engineering October 10, 2009, "The mesophases of soft sphere aggregates," Greater Boston Area Statistical Mechanics Meeting September 18, 2009, "Self-folding origami: Buckling thin films with non-Euclidean metrics," New England Complex Fluids Workshop May 19, 2009, JFI seminar, "Self-folding origami: Buckling thin films with non-Euclidean metrics," University of Chicago October 2008, Brown University, "Self-folding origami: Buckling thin films with non-Euclidean metrics," Seminar June 2007, "Coercing Columns to Curve," Liquid Crystal Gordon Research Conference July 5, 2006, "Curvature and Topology in Smectic Liquid Crystals," Glenn Brown Prize Talk, International Liquid Crystal Conference, Keystone, CO April 5, 2006, "Taming Competing Length Scales in Electrostatics and Self-Assembly," Colloquium, New York University March 1, 2006, "Taming Competing Length Scales in Electrostatics and Self-Assembly," Colloquium, Georgia Institute of Technology February 21, 2006, "Taming Competing Length Scales in Electrostatics and Self-Assembly," Invited Seminar, Chez Pierre Seminar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology