David C. Venerus

David C. Venerus is a Professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in Newark.

David was born in Raleigh, North Carolina and spent most of his youth in Clifton Park, NY until his graduation from Shenendehowa High School in 1980. Professor Venerus received his B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the University of Rhode Island in 1984 where he was also a four-year member of the varsity Swimming and Diving Team. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering from Penn State University in 1986 and 1989, respectively. Prior to coming to NJIT in the fall of 2018, he was on the faculty in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago. David joined the faculty at IIT in the fall of 1989 as an assistant professor. While at IIT, he has held the positions of associate chairman of the department and director of the Center of Excellence in Polymer Science and Engineering. He has several times been a visiting professor in the Department of Materials at the ETH Zuerich and in the Institute for Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. Professor Venerus has received several teaching awards both within the department and college of engineering at IIT. He is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and a Fellow of the Society of Rheology.

Professor Venerus’ research interests are in the areas of transport phenomena in soft matter, polymer science, and the rheology of complex fluids. This work includes the development and application of novel experimental techniques to investigate anisotropic thermal transport in polymeric materials and to study the rheological behaviour of complex fluids. He is also interested in the theory of interfacial transport phenomena and its applications.

David also enjoys windsurfing and is an avid mountaineer having summited Mt. Rainier, Mt. Whitney and the Matterhorn.