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University of Delaware, Newark, DE

Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemical Engineering 2025

University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
PhD, Chemical Engineering 2022

Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

B.S, Chemical Engineering 2016

Broward College, Davie, FL

A.A. General Education 2013

Prof. Madinya develops computational and theoretical methods to study charged macromolecules in solution for applications such as ion-conductive membranes and engineered peptides. He is interested in designing polyelectrolyte-grafted nanoparticles for use as environmentally responsive drug-delivery vehicles using coarse-grained molecular simulations. He is also developing simulation methods to better understand liquid-liquid phase separation in intrinsically disordered proteins.

1. Madinya, J. J.; Kronenberger, S.; Gould, B.; Peterson, C.; Jayaraman, A. Connecting Features of Ionomer Scattering Profiles to the Real-Space Structural Features of Ionomer Domains. Macromolecules 2024, 57 (16), 8223-8239. 
2. Madinya, J. J.; Tjo, H.; Meng, X.; Ramírez Marrero, I. A.; Sing, C. E.; Perry, S. L. Surface Charge Density and Steric Repulsion in Polyelectrolyte–Surfactant Coacervation. Macromolecules 2023, 56 (11), 3973-3988. 
3. Madinya, J. J.; Sing, C. E. Hybrid Field Theory and Particle Simulation Model of Polyelectrolyte–Surfactant Coacervation. Macromolecules 2022, 55 (6), 2358-2373. 
4. Madinya, J. J.; Chang, L.-W.; Perry, S. L.; Sing, C. E. Sequence-dependent self-coacervation in high charge-density polyampholytes. Molecular Systems Design & Engineering 2020, 5 (3), 632-644, 10.1039/C9ME00074G.