Caitlin Sample

Caitlin Sample is an assistant professor in the School of Molecular Sciences and the Center for Sustainable Macromolecular Materials and Manufacturing at Arizona State University. An Arizona native, Prof. Sample received a joint S.B. in Materials Science and Applied Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2014, where her interest in designing polymeric materials was sparked by the complex functions of natural systems. She developed her synthetic expertise across length-scales, from small-molecule organic semiconductors to 3D-printed polymer networks, as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she earned her doctorate in materials in 2020 under the supervision of Profs. Craig Hawker and Christopher Bates. Following her graduate work, Prof. Sample was a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Marc Hillmyer at the University of Minnesota. Her work at Minnesota centered on the green synthesis of polymers for applications in sustainability, including recycling processes and separation technologies. Her work at ASU focuses on the molecular design of high-performance polymers with reduced environmental impacts from synthesis to end-of-life.