Nolan Concannon

Instructor of Chemistry

Durham

Joined NCSSM in July 2025

Nolan Concannon joined NCSSM in 2025 as an Instructor of Chemistry on our Durham campus. He has been teaching high school chemistry since 2023 and has also spent summers teaching high school math and various science camp activities around Durham and Chapel Hill. Before teaching in North Carolina, he earned his bachelor’s in chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities for his research on organic semiconductor energy transfer. While in Minnesota, he taught and assisted with college courses in chemical engineering and materials science, in addition to leading a STEM outreach program for middle school students in the Twin Cities. As an undergraduate at MIT, he researched electrocatalytic nanocrystals and spent summers refining semiconductor chip manufacturing processes in Texas. He lives in Chapel Hill with his wife Hannah, and enjoys crocheting toys for his cat Meelo.

BS, Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PhD, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities


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