F. Joseph Schork

F. Joseph Schork received his B.S. (1973) and M.S. (1974) in Chemical Engineering from the University of Louisville. He was employed as a Research and Development Engineer with E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co. for three years before pursuing a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, which he received in 1981. He joined the Faculty at Georgia Tech in 1982, where he advanced to Professor and Associate Chair of the School of Chemical and Bimolecular Engineering. From 2006-2010, he was the Chair of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. Since 2010 he has been back at Georgia Tech. He is currently a very active emeritus professor. His research interests include polymerization reaction engineering, solution, emulsion and suspension polymerization, evolutionary aspects of polymerization and the dynamics and control of polymerization reactors.