directional plasma etching, dry wafer cleaning, kinetics, surface science, process modeling
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1980
B.S., Iowa State University, 1973
Professional Achievement Citation in Engineering, Iowa State, 1994
Thinker Award presented by Tegal Corporation for Innovative Characterization and Modeling of Plasma Etching Processes, 1987
crystallization from solution with an emphasis on nucleation, polymorphism, and industrial applications of crystallization
Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1977
M.S., University of Virginia, 1975
B.S., Columbia University, 1973
AICHE Process Development Division Excellence in Process Development Research Award, 2015
Clarence G. Gerhold Award, AIChE Separations Division, 2015
American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Fellow Award, 2010
American Chemical Society (ACS) Award in Separation Science and Technology, 2008
Virginia Engineering Foundation Engineering Achievement Award, 2000
fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer
Sc.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1962
S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1959
S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1958
National Academy of Engineering, 1983
Professional Progress Award, AIChE, 1981
renewable energy, nanotechnology, energy transport in nanomaterials, nonlinear spectroscopy, spectroscopic imaging
Postdoc, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010-2011
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2010
B.S., University of Delaware, 2005
Warren K. Lewis Professorship of Chemical Engineering, 2023
C. Michael Mohr Outstanding Faculty Award, MIT ChemE, 2023
Bose Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2023
AIChE NSEF Young Investigator Award, 2017
Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, 2017
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Chemistry, 2016
Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering, 2016
NSF CAREER Award, 2015
Everett Moore Baker Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2014
3M Nontenured Faculty Award, 2014
DOE Early Career Award, 2013
NSF IGERT Fellowship, Univ. of Minnesota Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Alexander J. Taylor Award, 2005
Tau Beta Pi Undergraduate Scholarship, 2004
biochemical engineering
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1970
S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1967
B.S., University of Pennsylvania, 1966
Elected, Member of the National Academy of Engineering, 2025
ICB Inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award, 2024
Honoris Causa by Ramon Llull University in Barcelona, 2012
Dieter & Inga Koehn Lecture, 2010
Fellow of the American Chemical Society, 2009
Founding Fellow, American Institute for Medical & Biological Engineering, 1992
Institute of Biotechnological Studies, 1989 Gold Medal
James Van Lannen Award for Distinguished Service to the Division of Microbial & Biochemical Technology of the American Chemical Society, 1985
Food, Pharmaceutical & Bioengineering Division Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 1983.
Becten-Dickenson Award lecturer, American Society for Microbiology, 1977
Listed in Who’s Who in Frontiers of Science & Technology
Listed in American Men of Science
Sigma Xi
bioengineering, transport phenomena, membrane separations
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1973
M.S., Stanford University, 1971
B.S., Columbia University, 1969
Graduate Student Council Outstanding Faculty Award, 2012, 2013, 2016
Warren K. Lewis Award, AIChE, 2012
Bose Award for Excellence in Teaching, MIT, 2012
Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Distinguished Teaching, MIT, 2011
Dr. Balwant S. Joshi Distinguished Visiting Professor in Chemical Engineering, UICT, Mumbai, India, 2008
Founding Fellow, AIMBE, 1992
Western Electric Fund Award, ASEE, 1982
microfluidics, complex fluids, polymer physics, rheology and transport phenomena
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1997
M.S., Stanford University, 1993
B.S., University of Pennsylvania, 1992
AIChE’s Alpha Chi Sigma Award for Chemical Engineering Research, 2022
Singapore Research Professorship, 2021
J-WAFS Seed Grant, 2019
Singapore Research Professorship, 2016
Michael Mohr Outstanding Faculty Award, 2013 & 2014
Singapore Research Professorship, 2013
Soft Matter Lectureship Award, 2012
Joliot Chair, ESPCI, 2009
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 2009
Rothschild-Yvette Mayent-Institute Curie Award, 2009
Van Ness Lectures at RPI, 2008
Lab on a Chip, Royal Society of Chemistry and Corning Inc., Pioneers of Miniaturization Prize, 2008
Henry L. and Grace Doherty Professorship, 2005-2007
University of Notre Dame Thiele Lectureship, 2006
U of DE Colburn Memorial Lecture, 2006,
NSF-CAREER Award, 2003
3-M Innovation Fund Award, 2003
Polypops Innovation Award, 2001
Fondation de la Recherche Medical Postdoctoral Grant, 1999-2000
Institut Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1998-1999
Chateaubriand Fellowship, 1997-1998
Stanford University’s Lieberman Fellowship, 1996-1997
chemical vapor deposition, membranes, organic surfaces, interfaces, and devices
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1987
S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982
S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982
AIChE’s Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau Pioneer Award for Lifetime Achievement by a Woman Chemical Engineer, 2021
John M. Prausnitz AIChE Institute Lecturer Award, 2019
Charles M.A. Stine Award, 2015
Elected Member of the National Academy of Engineering, 2015
Elected AIChE Fellow, 2013
AIChE Process Development Research Award, 2012
Printed Electronics Europe Best Materials Award, 2011
Keynote speaker, 23rd Int’l Conf. on Amorphous and Nanocrystalline Semiconductors, 2009
Chair, 5th Intl. Conf on Hot-Wire Chemical Vapor Deposition, August 2008
Donders Visiting Prof., Utrecht University, Netherlands, 2006
Excellence Award, SEMATECH, 2000
Tenth Annual Van Ness Award Lecturer, RPI, 2000
Chair, Gordon Conference of Diamond Synthesis, Oxford UK, 1998
Presidential Young Investigator, National Science Foundation, 1990
Young Investigator Award, Office of Naval Research, 1990
Amoco Foundation Fellow, 1982-85
NCAA Post-graduate Fellow, 1982
All-American NCAA Division III Swimming, 1978-82
chemical kinetics, molecular simulation, free radical reactions
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1988
B.A., Swarthmore College, 1983
AIChE’s R. H. Wilhelm Award in Chemical Reaction Engineering, 2019
Inaugural Fellow of the Combustion Institute, 2018
Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2016
Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Chemical Kinetics, 2009 – 2013 Associate Editor, 2005-2008
C.M. Mohr Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching, 2006
Executive Board, Eastern States Section, Combustion Institute, 2005 – 2009
ACS Div. of Environmental Chemistry Certificate of Merit, 2005
ACS Div. of Fuel Chemistry Richard A. Glenn Award, 2004, 2009, 2013
Bye-Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge University, 2004-2005
Thiele Lectureship Award (Univ. of Notre Dame), 2004
NSF CAREER award, 1999-2003
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, 1989-1990
The Charles & Katherine Darwin Research Fellow, Cambridge University, 1989-1990
NATO Postdoctoral Fellow, 1989
Amoco Foundation Graduate Fellow, 1987
NSF Graduate Fellow, 1983-1985
macromolecular design and synthesis, targeted drug delivery for cancer, nanoscale assembly of synthetic biomaterials, electrostatic and directed materials assembly
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993
M.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1988
S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984
National Medal of Technology and Innovation, 2024
Othmer Gold Medal, 2024
Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry, 2024
James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award, 2023-24
President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), 2021
Inaugural Black in Cancer Distinguished Investigator Award, 2021
MIT Institute Professor, 2021
MRS Turnbull Lectureship Award from the Materials Research Society, 2019
AIChE’s Margaret H. Rousseau Pioneer Award, 2019
Elected to the National Academy of Sciences, 2019
ACS Nat’l Award in Applied Polymer Science, 2018
Elected to the National Academy of Engineering, 2017
Elected to the National Academy of Medicine, 2016
Elected AIChE Fellow, 2016
Alpha Chi Sigma Award for Chemical Engineering Research, 2014
Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2013
Charles M.A. Stine Award, 2013
Ovarian Cancer Research Program Teal Innovator Award, 2013
Elected Fellow, ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry (POLY), 2012
Distinguished Scientist Award, the Harvard Foundation, 2010
Elected AIMBE Fellow, 2010
Bayer Distinguished Lecturer, 2004
Georgia Tech Outstanding Young Alumni Award, 2004
Radcliffe Institute Fellow, Harvard University, 2003
Henry Hill Lecturer Award, 2002
Junior Bose Faculty Award, 2000
GenCorp Signature University Award, 2000
Lloyd Ferguson Young Scientist Award, 2000
NSF Career Award, 1997
EPA Early Career Award, 1996
DuPont Young Faculty Award, 1996
3M Innovation Fund Award, 1995
NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemistry, Harvard University, 1994
Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellow, 1992
MIT Karl Taylor Compton Prize, 1992
Eastman Kodak Theophilus Sorrel Fellow, 1990