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Valerie Reed

As the Director for the Bioenergy Technologies Office, Dr. Valerie Sarisky-Reed oversees efforts to improve performance, lower costs, and accelerate market entry of advanced biofuels and bioproducts.

She has more than 24 years of experience in addressing energy and environmental issues faced by the United States and globally. In addition to her programmatic activities, she is a founding member of the Metabolic Engineering Working Group, which is an interagency effort to advance metabolic engineering technologies for industrial, agricultural, and human needs. She had the honor of...Read more

About the Maryland Local Section

Welcome to the Maryland Local Section community site! Formed in 1935, the Maryland chapter is the sixth-oldest local section in AIChE. Since its inception, it has been comprised of degreed and/or practicing chemical engineers in eastern, central, and most of western Maryland, although meetings and...

Catalytic Challenges and Opportunities for Shale Gas Utilization

Archived Webinar
Thursday, October 28, 2021, 5:30pm EDT
Biographical Information: Fabio H. Ribeiro is the R. Norris and Eleanor Shreve Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue. He is also the Director of CISTAR (Center for Strategic Transformation of...

Meet the Faculty and Post-Doc Candidates Poster Session

The Meet the Faculty and Post-Doc Candidates poster session is an annual poster session that provides a great opportunity for faculty, recruiters, and Department Chairs to speak directly with current graduate students and postdoctoral researchers who are seeking faculty positions.

Kelly Thomas

Dr. Kelly Thomas is a Vice President at BakerRisk and leads the Blast Effects Section.  His work at BakerRisk over the last 22 years deals with the characterization and modelling of flammability & explosion related phenomena with a focus on the prediction and testing of blast loads from accidental explosions.  Dr. Thomas has also participated in the investigation of numerous accidental industrial explosions while at BakerRisk.  Prior to BakerRisk, he worked for 10 years at the Savannah River National...Read more

Will Lowry

Mr. Lowry works in the BakerRisk San Antonio office in the Blast Effects Section as a Senior Engineer.  He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University in 2008 and his Master of Science degree in mechanical engineering in December of 2010. During his graduate work, he authored three journal publications and four conference papers, giving presentations at four national and international conferences and symposia ranging from Glasgow, Scotland to Beijing, China.

His current work is focused on analytical explosion analyses using...Read more

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