Christopher J. Roberts PhD

Dr. Roberts is a Professor and the Director of the Center for Biomanufacturing Science and Technology in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware (UD). He is also the Director of the Biomolecular Interaction Technology Center, and industry-university research consortium. He received a Bachelors of Chemical Engineering degree from UD, and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University. Prior to joining UD in 2002, he worked in the pharmaceutical industry as a formulation scientist for protein and small-molecule based drugs. The Roberts laboratory focuses on fundamentals and applications of protein physical and chemical stability, (mis)folding, aggregation, kinetics, statistical mechanics, molecular modeling, and thermodynamics to address questions of biopharmaceutical product design, stability, and manufacturing.