Christopher Bettinger

Professor, Materials Science Engineering, Biomedical Engineering

Bio

Christopher Bettinger is a Professor in the Departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. Prof. Bettinger received an S.B. in Chemical Engineering in 2003, an M.Eng. in Biomedical Engineering in 2004, and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering in 2008 as a Charles Stark Draper Fellow, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He completed his post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford University in the Department of Chemical Engineering as an NIH Ruth Kirschstein Fellow in 2010. He has received many honors including the MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering Award for “Outstanding PhD Thesis”, the ACS AkzoNobel Award for Polymer Chemistry, and the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society Young Investigator Award. Prof. Bettinger is also a co-inventor on several patents and was a finalist in the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition.

Research

Bettinger's research focuses on polymeric biomaterials for applications in sustainable energy materials, biomedical devices, and beyond. The overarching goal is to utilize unique electrochemical properties of abundant and benign biologically-derived materials for applications in the production of raw lithium materials and next-generation lithium-ion electrochemical storage systems.