Alex Jordan earned his doctoral degree for his dissertation titled "Fiber-Composite in situ Fabrication: Multilayer Coextrusion as an Enabling Technology". During his dissertation he studied crystalline-structure evolution during hot drawing of extruded composites and developed a technique to manufacture fiber-reinforced hydrogels to be used as mechanically tunable tissue engineering scaffolds.
Prior to joining the faculty at UW-Stout, Alex completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Minnesota studying the role of interfacial crystallization during processing of polyolefin blends. He is currently the plastics engineering program director and an associate professor of plastics engineering at UW-Stout.