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Dr. Christopher Tabor

Dr. Christopher Tabor is a materials research scientist within the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), located in Dayton, Ohio. He has been with AFRL for 10 years, first as a National Research Council Fellow and then as a staff scientist, following his graduation with a Ph.D. in chemistry from Georgia Tech in 2009. He leads a multidisciplinary team exploring fundamental and applied research in liquid electronics for applications ranging from stretchable circuits, physically reprogrammable RF hardware, and colloidal self-healing electronics. Dr. Tabor’s work has been highlighted in the...Read more

Video Tutorial: Understanding the Purge Process

March 12, 2020
March 12, 2020

Know how to solve a material balance problem for a system with a purge? Check out this chemical engineering tutorial.

Colin Baxter - RDX History - 10Mar2020

March 11, 2020
This was the March 10, 2020 local section meeting presentation.

Nichole Fitzgerald

Dr. Nichole Fitzgerald is a Technology Manager in the Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) at the U.S. Department of Energy. She manages R&D projects in BETO’s Conversion Program, with a focus on designing new biobased plastics and new biobased recycling paradigms. Nichole currently manages ChemCatBio, an Energy Materials Network consortium focused on catalysis for bioenergy applications, BioESep, a national lab-led consortium on separations for bioenergy, and the Performance Advantaged BioProducts working group, which consists of researchers designing new biobased products with novel...Read more

Oliver Bell

Dr. Bell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. His laboratory investigates the epigenetic mechanisms targeting chromatin modification to reinforce maintenance of gene expression states through genome replication. The Bell lab uses synthetic biology approaches, genetics and genomics to manipulate chromatin modifications and study their dynamics and inheritance. Ultimately, Dr. Bell’s research group aims to unravel the crosstalk between epigenetic regulation and cell...Read more

Cheryl Smyre

Cheryl leads the Parkdale Advanced Materials division, with a keen focus on the creation of new fiber technologies and delivering sustainable innovative solutions to the textile industry.

During her 23-year career with Parkdale, she has led International Sales, Global Supply Chain and Customer Relations.   Her International Business degree from the University of South Carolina and multi-cultural background, have served as an asset to the company on a global scale. Cheryl resides in Gastonia NC with her proud NCSU alum husband, Deric and son, Caleb.


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Barry McGeough

Barry McGeough is a Senior leader of fortune 500 companies in the footwear, apparel, and technology sectors and has spent his career developing innovation led product and category oriented growth strategies for some of the worlds most iconic outdoor and performance brands, been granted multiple patents, created award winning footwear and gear, and worked to develop pioneering connected and wearable devices with Outdoor and Olympic athletes at both The North Face and Speedo.

His work as an Innovation leader led him to build engagement models to drive both internal and open...Read more

Clare King

Clare King is the Founder and  President of Propel LLC, a company that is focused on the bridge between technology and textiles.  Using a wealth of experience in textile materials and processes and technology innovations,  the Propel team thinks about and solves complex problems from conceptualization through full-scale, state-of-the-art manufacturing. Propel is currently engaged in a number of Department of Defense funded research efforts including for Smart Textiles, self-activating heated footwear, and advanced cold weather clothing.   Propel is particularly...Read more

John Siirola

Dr. John D. Siirola is a Principal R&D Member of Technical Staff in the Discrete Math and Optimization Department within the Center for Computing Research at Sandia National Laboratories.  His main areas of expertise are systems design, operations research, optimization modeling, and optimization algorithms.  John’s research focuses on the intersection of computational tools with systems design and analysis; in particular, developing approaches for modeling highly structured systems, optimization algorithms that can exploit the expressed structure, and the application of...Read more

Christoph Kreisbeck

Dr. Kreisbeck is passionate about disruptive technologies and bringing tough tech to the commercial world. He co-founded Kebotix in 2017 and joined the company as Chief Product Officer to build out the world’s first commercial autonomous materials discovery platform. Between 2014 and 2016, he worked as a software developer within an Audi spearhead project on self-driving cars. As he likes to say: “From self-driving cars to self-driving labs”. He is an accomplished scientist who holds a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Regensburg (Germany). Prior to his appointment as a senior...Read more

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