Chinedum Osuji (born December 15, 1976)[1] is the Eduardo D. Glandt Presidential Professor and the departmental chair of chemical and biomolecular engineering (CBE) at University of Pennsylvania.
[9] In 2004, Chinedum qualified to compete in taekwondo men's 80 kg at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, but was defeated by Rashad Ahmadov of Azerbaijan in the preliminary round.
[1] He competed in the 2007 Pan American Games, receiving a bronze medal[9] and then announced his retirement from future international competitions.
[11] Osuji research focuses on the study of the structure, dynamics, and self-assembly of soft matter for use in applications such as organic solar cells, nanofiltration and microfluidic bio-assays.
[12] In particular, he has studied methods to induce long-range order in soft matter systems such as block copolymers and liquid crystals[13][14][15] and self-assembly of nanomaterials.