Matt Gebbie
Principal Investigator
Selected Honors and Awards
2025 → American Vacuum Society Prairie Chapter Early Career Research Award
2025 → Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, Invited Participant
2024 → WARF High Potential Disclosure, Sustainable Electrolytes from Petroleum Waste Streams
2024 → Centennial Lecturer, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, NC State University
2024 → Soft Matter Emerging Investigator, Royal Society of Chemistry
2023 → NSF CAREER Award, National Science Foundation
2022 → Early Career Award, Army Research Office
2022 → Doctoral New Investigator, ACS Petroleum Research Fund
2020 → Named Conway Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, UW–Madison
Matthew Gebbie
Matt is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He carried out his Ph.D. studies with Prof. Jacob Israelachvili at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where his research connected molecular forces to materials properties at electrochemical and biological interfaces. He was then a GLAM Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University, where he worked with Prof. Nick Melosh to tackle fundamental questions surrounding nanoscale nucleation and growth and design diamondoid-based materials to enhance energy interfaces. Matt grew up in rural North Carolina and obtained his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from North Carolina State University. In addition to science, he enjoys camping, biking, climbing, and surfing with his wife and friends, and trying to keep track of the family pet rabbit, Luther.