Timothy P. Lodge

Timothy P. Lodge (born 11 April 1954) is an American polymer scientist.

Lodge is a Regents Professor (2013–present), an Institute of Technology Distinguished Professor (2004–present), and a Distinguished McKnight University Professor (2001–present) in the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota where he has been a faculty member since 1982. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of the American Chemical Society journal ''Macromolecules'' for 17 years (2001–2017) and as the founding editor of ''ACS Macro Letters'' (2011–2018).

He is recognized for his research in polymer science, especially fundamental explorations of polymer chain dynamics in miscible blends, block polymers, multicompartment micelles and polymers in ionic liquids. According to ''Web of Science'', he has produced 331 published works that have been cited over 12,400 times, with an h-index of 62 as of April 6, 2014. He is also co-author, with Paul Hiemenz, of the textbook, ''Polymer Chemistry, 2nd edition.'' Provided by Wikipedia