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September 2015

Richard Baker

Dr. Baker currently serves as MTR’s Principal Scientist.  He founded the company in 1982, and served as President for 25 years. In that time, MTR became a leading membrane research, development, engineering, and production company, concentrating on the development of membranes and membrane systems for industrially and environmentally significant separations. He is currently leading MTR’s new development program for membrane-based biomass/biofuel ethanol separations.  Dr. Baker is the author of more than 100 papers and over 100 patents, all in the membrane area. ...Read more

Samir Mitragotri

Dr. Samir Mitragotri is the Hiller Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and is also appointed as the Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard’s Wyss Institute.
Professor Mitragotri received Ph.D. from MIT in 1996 and B.S. from the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai in 1992, both in Chemical Engineering.Read more

Harold H. Kung

Harold H. Kung is professor of chemical engineering at Northwestern University, where his areas of research include surface chemistry, catalysis, and chemical reaction engineering. His professional experience includes work as a research chemist at E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc. He is recipient of the P.H. Emmett Award and the Robert Burwell Lectureship Award from the North American Catalysis Society, the Herman Pines Award of the Chicago Catalysis Club, the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship, the John McClanahan Henske Distinguished Lectureship of Yale...Read more

Michael R. Resetarits

After receiving BS and MS degrees in chemical engineering, Mr. Mike Resetarits’ career began in 1974, at Union Carbide Corporation.  While there, Mike worked on the development of the MD distillation tray and the MU liquid-liquid extraction tray.  The ECMD tray was invented with Dr. Mike Lockett.  Several Union Carbide businesses were acquired by UOP in 1988, at which point Mike became a UOP R&D Manager.  The ECMD tray was developed and UOP acquired the Benfield hot carbonate acid gas removal process.  In 1999, Mike joined Koch-Glitsch as their R&D...Read more

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