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Moriah Thompson

Dr. Moriah Thompson started her career in the field of engineering, graduating from Texas A&M University in 2009 with a degree in biomedical engineering. Her involvement with NASA began while working as a researcher at the Space Engineering Institute during her undergraduate studies. Dr. Thompson earned her medical degree from UT Southwestern in Dallas, Texas in 2014. During medical school she joined the NASA Pathways Internship program, becoming the first medical student participant in this program. As a Pathways Intern, she would alternate semesters of...Read more

Thomas De Beer

Thomas De Beer graduated in pharmaceutical sciences in 2002 at the Ghent University in Belgium. He obtained his PhD at the same university in 2007. For his PhD research, he examined the suitability of Raman spectroscopy as a Process Analytical Technology tool for pharmaceutical production processes. Within his PhD research period, he worked four months at University of Copenhagen in Denmark, Department of Pharmaceutics and Analytical Chemistry (Prof. Jukka Rantanen). After his PhD, he was an FWO funded post-doctoral fellow at the Ghent University (2007-2010). Within his post-doc mandate,...Read more

Amol A. Kulkarni

Dr. Amol A. Kulkarni is a Scientist in the Chemical Engineering & Process Development Division at the CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Pune (Since 2005). He is a chemical engineer by training (B. Chem. Eng. 1998, and Ph.D. in chemical engineering 2003 from the Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT), Mumbai. He did his post doctorate at the MPI-Magdeburg (Germany) as a Humboldt Fellow (2004) and was an IUSSTF Research Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA in 2010.

He works in the area of design and development of microreactors and exploring their...Read more

Annual Meeting and COVID-19 FAQs

In February, AIChE formed a task force to actively monitor the development and impact of COVID-19 on global travel and to minimize risk to attendees of our events. The task force is continually evaluating and monitoring the situation and contingency plans for all conferences.

What’s Trending at AIChE: Highlights from January & February 2020

April 9, 2020
April 14, 2020

Want to get caught up? Check out this quick summary of the most popular online content, discussions, and more.  

Rheology to the Rescue: Problems in Bio-adhesion and Bio-friction

Archived Webinar
Wednesday, April 15, 2020,
3:00pm to 4:00pm
EDT
Certain problems in human health involve the adherence and friction of cells to surfaces. In this lecture, two such problems are considered: the strength of attachment of E coli bacteria onto bladder...

Gerald Fuller

Gerald Fuller is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University. He joined Stanford in 1980 following his graduate work at Caltech where he acquired his MS and PhD degrees. His undergraduate education was obtained at the University of Calgary, Canada. Professor Fuller's interests lie in studies of rheology and interfacial fluid mechanics. His work has been recognized by receipt of the Bingham Medal of The Society of Rheology, membership in the National Academy of Engineering, election to the American Academy of Arts and Science, and honorary doctorates from the...Read more

AIChE Announces Candidates for 2020 Officer Election

April 9, 2020
April 10, 2020

Check out the 2020 slate of candidates for the AIChE Board. Interested in running or nominating someone? It's not too late to be added as a petition candidate. 

Andrey Kostyukov

Andrey Kostyukov graduated from Omsk State University in 1996.

In 2007, he got a PhD in Economics after presenting a dissertation on the subject of the Organizational and Economic Mechanism of Equipment Operation under Real-time Health Monitoring (in oil-refining).

Since July 2015, Andrey V. Kostyukov has been holding a position of a Director General (CEO) and member of the Board of directors of DYNAMICS SPC.

In 2016, according to a new developed world wide strategy, he established a subsidiary of DYNAMICS Scientific Production Center USA, Inc., a Texas corporation...Read more

Roundup: Networking

April 9, 2020
April 16, 2020

Networking doesn't come naturally to everyone, but that doesn't mean you can't learn. Whether you're a natural or need some help, use this advice to build your career through networking. 

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