2024-2026 CAST Director: Helen Durand | AIChE

2024-2026 CAST Director: Helen Durand

Helen Durand is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at Wayne State University. She received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from UCLA, and upon graduation joined the Materials & Processes Engineering Department as an engineer at Aerojet Rocketdyne for two and a half years. She earned her M.S. in Chemical Engineering from UCLA in 2014 and her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from UCLA in 2017, and subsequently started at Wayne State. She received the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator award, and her work has also received support from the National Science Foundation including the CAREER award. She received a Faculty Research Excellence Award and an Excellence in Teaching Award within the College of Engineering at Wayne State University and served as the chair of the Next-Gen Manufacturing Topical Conference for the 2021 Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.