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Bernhard Palsson

Bernhard Palsson is the Distinguished Galletti Professor of Bioengineering, the Principal Investigator of the Systems Biology Research Group in the Department of Bioengineering, and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego.  He is also the CEO of the Novo Nordisk Center for Biosustainability in Denmark, working in this capacity since 2011. Dr. Palsson has co-authored more than 520 peer-reviewed research articles and has authored four textbooks. His research includes the development of methods to analyze metabolic dynamics (flux-balance analysis, and modal...Read more

Kang Xu

Kang Xu is an MRS Fellow, ECS Fellow, ARL Fellow (emeritus), and currently the Chief Scientist of SES AI Corp based in Boston, MA. He has been conducting electrolytes and interphasial chemistry research for the past 30 years, published 320+ papers, wrote/edited 5 books/chapters, and obtained 20+ US Patents, with total citation of 67,000+ and an h-index of 127. He is a Clarivate’s highly-cited author, and one of the top 2% most influential researchers in the Stanford Database. 

Among his numerous publications, he is best known in the field for the two comprehensive reviews...Read more

G.J. la O'

GJ la O’ is VP of Technology at Primus Power. He joined Primus Power in 2009 and has been instrumental in leading the technology development of its low-cost, high-energy and safe energy storage system. He has published over a dozen articles in refereed journal articles in the field of electrochemistry and electrochemical energy sources and has presented at over thirty conference and industry presentations. He has 23 patents issued. He received the B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from UC Berkeley in 2001 and the Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from MIT in 2008Read more

Bruce M. Usher

Bruce Usher is a Professor of Practice and the Elizabeth B. Strickler '86 and Mark T. Gallogly '86 Faculty Director of the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School. Professor Usher teaches on the intersection of finance, social and environmental issues, and is a recipient of the Singhvi Prize for Scholarship in the Classroom and the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence. Prior to his work at Columbia, Professor Usher was CEO of EcoSecurities Group plc, which developed greenhouse gas emission reduction projects in developing countries. EcoSecurities was acquired by JP...Read more

Amy Marschilok

Professor A. Marschilok began her professional career in industry, where she spent over three years as a researcher in the development of medical energy storage devices.  She transitioned to academics in 2007 and began her career at SBU in 2012.  Among her awards and recognitions are Visionary of the Year from Greatbatch Inc. and a Woman of Distinction award from the Girl Scouts of Western NY.  ...Read more

Sanjoy Banerjee

Sanjoy Banerjee is a Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering City College of New York and Director of the City University of New York (CUNY) Energy Institute. Banerjee is also the Founder and Chairman of Urban Electric Power, spun out of the CUNY Energy Institute to develop ‘beyond lithium’ batteries. Banerjee was recruited from UC Santa Barbara, where he had been Department Chair and previously taught at Berkeley, McMaster University, and worked at Atomic Energy of Canada, as Director of the Applied Science Division. He has also served as Mitsubishi Professor at the University of...Read more

MIT’s Gleason is Named 2019 Prausnitz AIChE Institute Lecturer

Karen Gleason
August 27, 2019
Karen K. Gleason, the Alexander and I. Michael Kasser (1960) Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has been chosen by AIChE to present the John M. Prausnitz AIChE Institute Lecture for 2019. She will...

Jeonghun Kim

Dr Jeonghun Kim has substantial expertise in the design, synthesis, and characterisation of functional materials including organics and inorganics for diverse applications. He has extensive experience in organic material design, organic synthesis, functional polymers, chemical and physical analysis, and material applications. He has developed several new conductive polymers with enhanced conductivity and optoelectronic properties through the molecular design and development of various processes and polymerisation methods. Recently, he is focusing on development of nanoarchitectured organic...Read more

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