Jacinta Conrad

@jcconrad.bsky.social

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Soft matter physicist; professor of chemical engineering. Drawing, guitar, hiking, reading, cooking, and a miniature Aussie. She/her.

Photo of a 2.75 yr old black tri mini Australian Shepherd giving her I-hate-pictures squint while sitting in front of a Halloween backdrop featuring two pumpkins, a leafless tree, and a black wave. The dog's face is white with black spots.
Jennifer Lewis (left) and Jaci Conrad (right), both wearing long-sleeved black shirts, standing in front of a seated audience in a classroom at the 101st New England Complex Fluids Meeting in Cambridge, MA. The photo is taken right before the afternoon session celebrating Jennifer's 60th birthday.
Three marguciai -- Lithuanian decorated Easter eggs-- sitting in a white and tan bowl on grass. The eggs all have different patterns on a black background -- triangle-dots, flowers, and curved lines.
Screenshot of the 2025 Merriam Webster "word of the year" gif showing the word "avant-garde".
Animated slide titled “It all comes back to complex fluids”. Initially the words “Tailoring microscopic interactions → Fluid rheology → Printing” appear on the slide. Animation reveals 53 rheology plots appearing from top to bottom, taken from Jennifer Lewis’ papers.
Prof. Ryan Poling-Skutvik and Dr. Daniel Keane standing in front of the first slide of Dr. Keane's thesis, titled "Biomimetic Polymer-Linked Emulsions" at the University of Rhode Island.
Two miniature Australian Shepherds wearing flower neckties sit in a tan armchair in front of a computer generated holiday backdrop with Christmas balls. The left dog is brown, tan, and white with a mostly dark brown face and a tan snout; the right dog is black, tan, and white with a white face (not breed standard) and black ears.
A lit carved pumpkin with three leaves, placed approximately in the positions of two eyes and a mouth.
Bluesky-generated badge stating that I was used #57, 317.
A lit pumpkin carved with the "flame" hazard pictogram (a fire) inside a diamond defined by its four corners.
Opening kickoff of the 11th Annual Texas Soft Matter Meeting at the University of Houston on August 18th, 2023, organized by Tian Chen (UH MechE) and Gül Zerze (UH ChBE).
Fragment of a letter written to my sister in Diamine Polar Glow sheener ink, discussing how sheeners are colloidal physics (and colloidal crystallization) in action.
A baking tray 2/3 filled with water beads, some in local crystalline order and some not, on a patterned carpet.