Ranil Wickramasinghe is a distinguished professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Arkansas where he holds the Ross E Martin Chair in Emerging Technologies. He is an Arkansas Research Alliance Scholar. Prof Wickramsinghe is the Director of the Membrane Applications Science and Technology (MAST) Center, a NSF Industry and University Cooperative Research Center. He is Executive Editor of Separation Science and Technology. Prof Wickramasinghe is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the North American Membrane Society. Prof Wickramasinghe is the winner of the 2023 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Separations Division Gerhold Award. He is the current Chair of the Professional Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Examinations Committee. Prof Wickramasinghe obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Melbourne in Chemical Engineering. He obtained his PhD from the University of Minnesota, also in Chemical Engineering. Prof Wickramasinghe’s research interests are in membrane science and technology. His research focuses on synthetic membrane-based separation processes for purification of pharmaceuticals and biopharmaceuticals, treatment and reuse of water and for the production of biofuels and chemicals. He has developed responsive membranes that react to a change in environmental conditions such as magnetic field, pH etc. Consequently the performance of these membranes may be modified by an external stimulus. Ranil Wickramasinghe has served AIChE and the Separation Division for over 30 years. He was a member of the General Arrangements Committee for last AIChE Summer National Meeting (Boston, 1995). He has served as Vice President of AIChE Boston Local Section (Ichthyologists) and was meeting program chair for the AIChE Annual Meeting in 2013 (San Francisco). He has served on the Career and Education Operating Council, which he chaired in 2010-2011, as well as the Chemical Engineering Technology Operating Council. He was a member of AIChE task force to create a Body of Knowledge (BOK) for Chemical Engineering. The task force won the AIChE Executive Committee's Gary Leach Recognition Award. He is a former Chair of Area 2d (membrane separations) and was the Chair of the Separations Division in 2000.