Christine Duval is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. She received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Connecticut in 2011. She spent two years as a consultant at the Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, writing business plans for high-tech startup companies. In 2017, she earned her Ph.D. from Clemson University where her dissertation focused on the development of uranium-selective materials (resins and membranes) for environmental radiation detection. During the summer of 2017, she was a DOE Scholar at the US Department of Energy in the Nuclear Materials Information Program. Shortly after, she joined the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department at Case Western Reserve University as an Assistant Professor. Her research group develops new materials and processes for lanthanide and actinide separations with applications in nuclear medicine, reprocessing used nuclear fuel, and processing rare earth elements from waste streams. Her group's work has been recognized through the DOE Early Career Research Award (2020), the Young Membrane Scientist Award (2022) from the North American Membrane Society, the NSF CAREER (2023), and the PECASE (2025). Within AIChE, she currently serves as the Area Chair for 2D: Membrane-Based Separations and organizes the Topical Conference: Critical Minerals for the Clean Energy Transition. In the past, she was the advisor for the CWRU AIChE student chapter, a mentor in the Education Division’s Future Faculty Mentoring Program, and a panelist at the North Central Regional Student Conference.