Paulette Clancy is a professor and the inaugural Head of the Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Johns Hopkins Univ. She also serves as the Samuel and Diane Bodman Professor Emerita of Chemical Engineering at Cornell Univ. and as Chair of the faculty oversight team for Advanced Research Computing at Johns Hopkins’ High-Performance Computing facility.
Her research group is recognized as one of the leading computational groups in atomic-scale modeling of materials and algorithm development. Her current work aims to develop machine learning algorithms to accelerate the search for optimal materials processing protocols. Her research group has always been focused on electronic materials, but it also includes more esoteric projects include xenobiology (Life on Titan) and a screening of therapeutic oligomers to maximize antibacterial ability. She has won numerous awards for mentoring, service learning, civic engagement, and promoting the careers of those from under-represented groups.