2025-2026 AIChE Chicago Elected Officers Chair: Lance Baird Lance Baird is the owner of Lance Baird, LLC specializing in Renewable Energy and is a co-founder of RenewAgility, LLC. Lance retired from Honeywell UOP after 37 years of service, including 15 years on worldwide technical service assignments and 22 years in various roles in technology development. He holds 21 patents with 16 applications pending and is a 6-sigma black belt. Lance graduated from Washington State University with a BS in Chemical Engineering. He is currently serving AIChE Chicago as the Chair-elect and previously served...
Joleen Masschelein leads the Laboratory for Biomolecular Discovery and Engineering at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology in Belgium. She studied Bioscience Engineering at KU Leuven, where she earned her PhD in 2015, focusing on the discovery and characterization of novel antibiotics. She was subsequently awarded a Marie-Sklodowska Curie Individual Fellowship from the European Commission to continue her research at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Warwick. In 2017, she moved to the Laboratory for Medicinal Chemistry at KU Leuven as a...Read more