Haley Beech

Education

Undergraduate Institution: University of Minnesota

Graduate Institution (PhD): Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Biography

Haley grew up cross country skiing through the frozen forests of Minnesota before attaining a degree in chemical engineering at the University of Minnesota. While there, she researched the phase behavior of di-block copolymer blends with Prof. Frank Bates. Haley moved east for a PhD in Chemical Engineering under the guidance of Prof. Bradley Olsen at MIT where her research was focused on relating single polymer chain behavior and topology to macroscopic properties in polymer networks. She then headed to the opposite coast where she began a postdoc at UCSB co-advised in the Hawker and Segalman groups in September 2023.

Research

Haley is working on synthetic functionalization and processing for polymer compatibilization.