Dan Hickman is a Senior R&D Fellow in Dow’s Core Research & Development organization. He received his B.S. in chemical engineering from Iowa State University (1988) and his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota (1992). Since joining Dow in 1992, Dan has served as a subject matter expert and technical leader in reaction engineering and process development for numerous reaction systems across many Dow businesses and technologies. His industrial reaction engineering experience includes working with stirred tank reactors, fixed bed reactors, trickle bed reactors, and fluidized bed reactors. His contributions at Dow include the conceptual design of new reactor systems for three commercial processes and the development of training and resources that facilitate efficient and reliable reactor scale-up from the laboratory. Dan holds 25 patents and has authored 34 journal articles and book chapters and more than 200 internal Dow reports. Dan was named the Mid-Michigan AIChE Chemical Engineer of the Year in 2014, received the CRE Practice Award from the Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division of AIChE in 2015, was named an AIChE Fellow in 2023, and served the global reaction engineering community on the board of directors for International Symposia on Chemical Reaction Engineering, Inc., from 2012 through 2024.