Wayne Reed

Murchison Mallory Professor of Physics

Interdisciplinary Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
School of Science & Engineering
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Affiliated Faculty
Region
  • South America
Wayne Reed

Additional Info

Number of Dissertations or Theses Supervised in the Past 5 Years: 9 

Research

Macromolecular Physics and Characterization, Biologic Medicine Development, Polymer Science and Engineering, Molecular Biophysics, Colloid Phenomena, Light Scattering, non-equilibrium processes in polymeric systems.

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Clarkson University, Physics, 1984
  • M.S., University of Washington, Physics, 1976
  • B.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Physics, 1975

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Interdisciplinary Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 2016-
  • Murchison-Mallory Chair in Physics, 2013-
  • Professor, Tulane University, 1994-
  • Associate Professor, Tulane University, 1991-1994
  • Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 1985-1991
  • Visiting Professor, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, 1989-1991; 1993; 1995-1996; 1998

Distinctions

  • Tulane Entrepreneurship Award, 2023
  • Chief Scientific Advisor for Fluence Analytics Inc., First Tulane spinoff company to be acquired by a major international corporation (Yokogawa Electric Co., Tokyo), January 2023
  • Extensive grant support from the private biotechnology sector; Biogen, Merck, Moderna, Roche, 2012-
  • U.S.A. International Observer for the March 29, 2015 presidential election in Uzbekistan

Languages

  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Portuguese
  • Italian

Overseas Experience

  • Brazil
  • Mexico
  • France
  • Spain
  • Germany
  • Japan
  • South Korea
  • Uzbekistan

Related Experience

  • Founding Director, Tulane Center for Polymer Reaction Monitoring and Characterization (PolyRMC), 2007-
  • Associate Director (TIMES), Tulane Institute for Macromolecular Eng. & Science, 2006-2011
  • Consultant to CYTEC Corp., Lyphomed Corp., Elf Aquitaine (France), Systems Bioindustries (France), U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, United Technologies, Union Carbide, Petrobras (Brasil), Elf Atochem (US), International Specialty Products, Firmenich, DEGUSSA, D
  • Chair, Department of Physics, Tulane University, 1997-2000
  • Staff Scientist, SPIRE Corporation, 1977-1978

Selected Publications

  • 2024. Textbook: Wayne F. Reed, “Biophysics: Physical Principles Underlying the Living State”, Wiley Publishers, August 2024 estimated release date
  • 2024. Curtis W. Jarand, Karen Baker, Matt Petroff, Mi Jin, Wayne F. Reed, “DNA released by adeno-associated virus strongly alters capsid aggregation kinetics in a physiological solution”, Biomacromolecules, 2024, 25, 2890-2901
  • 2022. Julia S. Siqueira, Matthew Crosley, Wayne F. Reed, "Kinetic and mechanistic action of oxygen in aqueous free radical and RAFT polymerization", J Phys Chem B, 2022,126 (51), 10933-10947. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c06067
  • 2022. W.F. Reed, Richard Montgomery, Michael F. Drenski, Aide Wu, US Patent #11,474,044 “Device and methods for separation-free determination of molecular weight distributions of polymers and distributions of other polymer properties”, Issued 10/18/22
  • 2021. “Reciprocal braking and acceleration between acrylic and styrenic comonomers in RAFT and free radical copolymerization”, Julia S. Siqueira, Fabio H. Florenzano, Wayne F. Reed. Polymer, 226, 2021
  • 2020. W.F. Reed and M.F. Drenski, US patent #10,837,912, issued 11/17/2020. “Systems and methods for the active control of polymer reactions and processing using automatic continuous online monitoring of polymerization reactions (ACOMP)”
  • 2019. Wayne F. Reed, “Automatic Continuous Online Monitoring and Control of Polymerization Reactions (ACOMP) and Related Methods”, 2019, Wiley Online Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry
  • 2018. Terry McAfee, Rick D. Montgomery, Thomas Zekoski, Aide Wu, Wayne F. Reed, “Automatic, simultaneous control of polymer composition and molecular weight during free radical copolymer synthesis”, Polymer, 2018, 136, 235-247.