AI-enabled Design of Sustainable Polymeric Materials
Juan J. de Pablo
EVP for Global Science and Technology and
Executive Dean, Tandon School of Engineering, NYU
Friday, May 9, 2025
3:00 p.m., Room 66-110 (2:30 p.m. reception)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
Technical Lecture: Thursday, May 8, 4:00 p.m. in 66-110
Bio:
Dr. Juan de Pablo is the University’s inaugural Executive Vice President for Global Science and Technology, and the Executive Dean of the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. He leads cross-University, multidisciplinary, and globally focused efforts to accelerate the momentum of NYU’s vast science and technology enterprise for the purposes of solving humanity’s largest challenges. Dovetailing with those efforts, de Pablo steers Tandon’s engineering research and education to play a central role in addressing a multitude of areas, from human health, to advances in materials discovery, to the sustainability of the planet.
Before joining NYU, Dr. de Pablo served as the Executive Vice President for Science, Innovation, National Laboratories, and Global Initiatives at the University of Chicago; the Liew Family Professor in Molecular Engineering at Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering; and a Senior Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory. Prior to that, he served as the Howard Curler Distinguished Professor and Hilldale Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland.