Dr. Maria K. Burka is the Program Director of the Process and Reaction Engineering (PRE) program in the Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems (CBET) Division of the National Science Foundation. Her responsibilities include evaluation and management of research and...Read more
Stuart is known worldwide for his fundamental work on phase separation in block polymers, which are responsible for the good mechanical properties of many widely-used polymers such as the polyurethanes used in the high-performance thermoplastic elastomer industry. In 2013, he received the...Read more
Prof. Liangfang Zhang received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign (UIUC) in 2006 under the supervision of Prof. Steve Granick.
He was a postdoctoral associate in the laboratory of Prof. Robert Langer at MIT during 2006-2008. He...Read more
Paula T. Hammond is the David H. Koch Chair Professor of Engineering in the Chemical Engineering Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, the MIT Energy Initiative, and a founding member of the MIT Institute for...Read more
Zhenan Bao is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University. Prior to joining Stanford in 2004, she was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies from 1995-2004. She has over 350 refereed publications and over 50 US patents with a Google Scholar H-...Read more
Adam Heller received his M.Sc. (Chemistry and Physics, 1957) and Ph.D. (Chemistry, 1961) from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, where he studied under E. D. Bergmann. Following postdoctoral work at U.C. Berkeley and at Bell Laboratories, he joined GTE Laboratories, where he became Manager of...Read more
Frank Zhu, PhD, is a senior fellow at UOP LLC, where he has led innovation efforts to optimize industrial process design and operation to achieve higher energy efficiency and lower capital cost. Before joining UOP, Zhu served as a research professor at the Centre for Process Integration at the...Read more
Laura Leonard’s work has impacted multiple refining and petrochemicals technologies, with major contributions to light olefin production, clean fuels technology, and integrated refining-petrochemical complexes.
In 2010, Leonard became the senior technology specialist for UOP’s Oleflex...Read more
Van Truskett earned her PhD in chemical engineering at Johns Hopkins Univ., where she focused on the patterning of small particles using interfacial flows.
Her work on patterning continues at Canon Nanotechnologies (formerly Molecular Imprints, Inc.), where she has innovated numerous drop...Read more
Mark Pilling’s responsibilities at Sulzer Chemtech incorporate research and development of high-performance mass-transfer devices, and construction and evaluation of simulations for numerous processes.
He is also responsible for technology transfer within Sulzer Chemtech’s global...Read more
Dr. Doug Way is currently Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines, where he has been a faculty member since 1993.
He received his chemical engineering education at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Previously, he was a chemical engineering faculty member at...Read more
Carmo J. Pereira is Principal Division Consultant (1997-Present) in the Reaction Engineering Group at DuPont Engineering Technology specializing in the design and optimization of reactors and processes. Prior to DuPont, he was a Sr. Research Associate (1982-1997) at W. R. Grace & Co....Read more
Steve Kiorpes (retired) is recognized for his work at Scientific Design Co. (SD) from 1957 through 1985. SD, which designed, built, and commissioned large and complex chemical process plants, specialized in new and emerging technologies. Kiorpes’ work was a major factor in the company’s success...Read more
Manos Mavrikakis is the Paul A. Elfers Professor at the Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Manos received his Diploma in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, and an MS in Applied Math and a...Read more
Leslie Gary Leal is the Warren & Katharine Schlinger Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is known for his research work in the dynamics of complex fluids.
Leal received his B.S. degree from the University of Washington in 1965, M.S...Read more
Gregory Stephanopoulos is the W. H. Dow Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT. After obtaining his chemical engineering doctorate at Univ. of Minnesota, he taught at Caltech before joining MIT in 1985. His research focuses on metabolic engineering — the engineering of microbes to convert them...Read more
Dr. Ravi Kane is the P. K. Lashmet Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at RPI.
Dr. Kane received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering with distinction from Stanford University in 1993 and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from MIT in 1998. After postdoctoral research in the Department...Read more
Douglas S. Clark is the Warren and Katharine Schlinger Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Research in the Clark lab is centered in biochemical engineering, with particular emphasis on protein...Read more
Dr. Timothy O. Odi is an Engineering Fellow at Chevron Phillips Chemical Company. He has over 23 years diversified chemical engineering experience in research and development, process engineering, modeling and optimization with two global chemical/petrochemical USA companies, 3 years of...Read more
Dr Robert (Bobby) L. Satcher , earned his BS and PhD degrees in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1993) and his MD from Harvard Medical School in 1994. He was selected for Astronaut training after his Post Doctoral research Fellowship work at MIT. He flew on...Read more
Babatunde A. Ogunnaike joined the UD faculty in 2002 as a professor with appointments in the Department of Chemical Engineering (now the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) and the Delaware Biotechnology Institute’s Center for Systems Biology, after a 13-year research career...Read more
Dr. Rosemarie D. Wesson joined the Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2001 as a Visiting Scientist/Engineer on leave from The Dow Chemical Company in Midland Michigan. She is currently Program Director for the Chemical and Biological Separations Program in the...Read more
Lance R. Collins, professor and the S.C. Thomas Sze Director of the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell, was named the Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering for a five-year term beginning July 1, 2010.
As dean, Collins is the chief academic and...Read more
Edward L. Cussler, currently Distinguished Institute Professor at the University of Minnesota, received his B.E. with honors from Yale University in 1961, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin in 1963 and 1965, respectively, working with E. N. Lightfoot...Read more
Kurt M. VandenBussche is the R&D director for Materials Characterization at Honeywell's UOP. In this capacity, he oversees the worldwide analytical, characterization and molecular modeling activies for UOP's technology delivery process.
He holds a Masters and PhD degree in...Read more
Benoit's research interests are in the general area of Process Systems Engineering (PSE), with emphasis on global optimization, optimization-based process control, and numerical computation. His primary research objective is to develop new methods, concepts and tools for the fast and reliable...Read more
Dr. Mario Eden is the Department Chair and Joe T. & Billie Carole McMillan Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Auburn University. Dr. Eden is also the Director of an NSF-IGERT Program on Integrated Biorefining. His main areas of expertise include process design,...Read more
Richard D. Braatz is the Edwin R. Gilliland Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he does research in control theory and its application to chemical and biotechnological systems. He received a BS from Oregon State University and MS and PhD...Read more
John Hedengren is a chemical engineer by training with a B.S. and M.S. degree from Brigham Young University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. Currently he is an assistant professor at Brigham Young University in the Chemical Engineer-ing Department. Dr....Read more
Details on my professional activities are available at: http://www.eng.utoledo.edu/~mliberat/Read more
Panagiotis (Peter) Smirniotis, Ph.D., received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece in 1989 and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo in 1994. Peter joined the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Cincinnati (UC) in 1994 as...Read more
Distinguished Professor, Tisone Professor, Associate Professor of Surgery, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. Research interests include biomaterials, tissue engineering, photopolymerizations, and degradable polymer networksRead more
Professor Jenekhe's research is on electroluminescent polymers for displays, self-assembling polymer systems, polymer device engineering, tunable optical polymer systems, and polymer nanophotonics....Read more
Christopher J. Ellison is an Assistant Professor, the Frank A. Liddell, Jr. Centennial Faculty Fellow and William H. Tonn Faculty Fellow in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He is also affiliated with the Texas Materials Institute, the materials...Read more
Bond Calloway is an Associate Laboratory Director at the Savannah River National Laboratory, where he leads a team of scientists and engineers conducting energy research. He has more than 30 years of industrial experience in research and development, design, construction, and operation of...Read more
Professor Jeffrey McCutcheon is the Northeast Utilities Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering Education at the University of Connecticut. He is a faculty member in the Department of Chemical, Materials and Biomolecular Engineering and is affiliated with the Center for Environmental...Read more
Dr. Andre Da Costa has over 27 years of diverse Chemical Engineering experience. He is currently a Process Safety Director with Pacific Gas and Electric Company. Previous positions include: Chemical Engineering Manager with Corning Incorporated; Engineering Manager on a capital improvement...Read more
Prof.Sumanta Acharya holds the L. R. Daniel professorship and the Fritz & Francis Blumer professorship in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Louisiana State University (LSU). He is the founding director of the Center for Turbine Innovation and Energy Research which focuses on energy...Read more
Clare is from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. Her 2014 Annual Meeting Lecture is entitled "Understanding the Self-Assembly of Skin Lipids."Read more
Gregg is from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO. His 2014 Annual Meeting Lecture is entitled "How the Walls Come Crumbling Down: Elucidating Mechanisms of Cellulose-Active Enzymes Using Molecular Simulation."Read more
Christine Hrenya is principal investigator of the Hrenya Research Group. Read more
Karl V. Jacob is Research Scientist/Technical Leader in Engineering Sciences at The Dow Chemical Company. He is also founder of the Solids Processing Lab at Dow in Midland, Michigan.
For the last three decades, he has worked on a vast array of particle technology problems, with particular...Read more
Asep Bayu Dani Nandiyanto is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia. He received B.Eng (2005) in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Institut Teknologi Bandung. He received M. Eng. (2008) and Dr. Eng. (2011) in the Department of Chemistry...Read more
Minye Liu is a principal consultant in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and mixing at Chemours. Previously, he worked for DuPont, Procter & Gamble Co.; Cray Research, Inc., and subsequently Silicon Graphics, Inc.; and the Center for Computer Aids for Industrial Productivity at Rutgers Univ...Read more
Helen H. Lou is a Professor in the Dan F. Smith Department of Chemical Engineering at Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas. She holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Zhejiang University, Hang Zhou, China (1993). Then she worked four years in SinoPec Luoyang Petrochemical Engineering...Read more
Phillip Savage has been on the Michigan faculty since 1986. He earned a B.S. from Penn State and M.Ch.E. and PhD degrees from the University of Delaware. Phil’s research and teaching focus on the rates, mechanisms, and engineering of chemical reactions that move us toward a more...Read more
Dr. Manousiouthakis received his Diploma, M.S., and Ph.D. degrees all in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (1981) and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1985, 1986) respectively. Dr. Manousiouthakis has over 100 refereed journal publications, 2 patents,...Read more
Lynden Archer joined the Cornell faculty in 2000. He was appointed director of the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in 2010. Since 2008 he has served as co-director of the KAUST-Cornell Center for Energy and Sustainability.
His research focuses on transport properties...Read more
Ali Khademhosseini is an Associate Professor at Harvard-MIT's Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) as well as an Associate Faculty at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired engineering. He is also a Junior...Read more
Paul E. Fanning, Ph.D., P.E., is a Development Associate in the Chemical Process Development Group at Eastman Chemical Company. Before arriving in Tennessee in March 2008, Paul was employed by Union Carbide Corporation (now a subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company), where he was a Senior R&D...Read more
Daniel Sujo is currently a process engineer at Inolex, Co. located in Philadelphia, PA. In this role, he is tasked with revamping and optimizing the current manufacturing and management systems.
A native of Torreon, Mexico, Daniel attended the ...Read more
Jimmy Orr has worked 40+ years in the Gulf Coast Chemical Industry. His experience includes Plant Operations, Process Research, Project Management, and detailed Process Design. Jimmy is an expert in the design & management of small in-plant improvement projects.
He is a graduate from...Read more