March 2023

Chris Luettgen, PhD, is the Associate Director of the Renewable Bioproducts Institute (RBI) and Professor of the Practice in the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). He received a BS in pulp and paper engineering from Western Michigan Univ. (1985) and MS and PhD degrees in paper science and engineering at The Institute of Paper Science and Technology in Appleton and Atlanta, respectively (1987 and 1991). He worked for 25 years for Kimberly-Clark Corp., most recently leading North American Innovation for the Commercial...Read more

Syed Z. Islam, PhD, is a research staff member in the Chemical Sciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). He conducts both basic and applied research on developing advanced materials and novel processes for clean energy technologies. His research focus is development of energy-efficient novel membrane technologies for the separation and recovery of critical materials, including rare earth and battery materials, and gas separations including CO₂ capture. Before joining ORNL in 2018, he worked for the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as a postdoctoral research...Read more

Arne J. Pearlstein, PhD, is a Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Email: ajp@illinois.edu). His research interests are in fluid mechanics and heat and mass transfer, and he is currently focused on fluid/structure interaction and mass transfer in isothermal and nonisothermal flows. He has a longstanding interest in the modeling of chemical systems, including kinetics and mass transfer in electrochemical, photochemical, and photopolymerization systems. Pearlstein received his BS, MS, and PhD in...Read more