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
nanoscale process systems engineering, multiresolution modeling and design of materials and processes, multiscale process operations and control
Ph.D., University of Florida, 1974
M.E., McMaster University, 1971
Dipl. ChE., National Technical University of Athens, 1970
Chemical and Biological Process Dynamics and Control, 2025
Demokritos Scientific Research and Innovation Award, Greece, 2016
CACHE Award for Excellence in Computing in Chemical Engineering Education, ASEE Chemical Engineering Division, 2015
The Ambani Life-Time Achievements Award, ICT-Ambani Corp., 2013
AIChE Founders Award, 2012
American Academy of Arts and Science Fellow, 2012
Fellow of AIChE, 2006
“BalwantS. Joshi Distinguished Visiting Professor in Chemical Engineering” UICT, Mumbai, 2005-06
“Gerster”Lecture, Universityof Delaware, 2004
William H. Walker Award, AIChE, 2003
AIChE Institute Lecture, 2003
Honorary Doctor of Science, McMaster University, 2002
“Roger Sargent”Lecture, ImperialCollege, 2000
National Academy of Engineering, 1999
The Kelly Lectures, Purdue University, 1999
Harry G. Fair Lecture, The University of Oklahoma, 1999
Best Paper Award: Designing and Systems, 14th European Mtg. on Cybernetics and Systems Research, Vienna,1998
Centennial Lecturer, Technical University of Delft, Delft, 1995
Computing in Chemical Engineering Award, AIChE, 1993
Merck Distinguished Lecturer, Rutgers University, 1992
Best Paper Award, Computers and Chemical Engineering, 1992, 1987
Foreign Member of the Russian Acad of Tech. Sciences, 1991
The Stanley Katz Memorial Lecturer, CUNY, 1989
Curtis McGraw Award, ASEE, 1986
Allan P. Colburn Award, AIChE, 1982
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher and Scholar Award, 1977
metabolic and biochemical engineering, biotechnology, bioinformatics
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1978
M.S., University of Florida, 1975
B.S., National Technical University, Athens, 1973
AIChE Doing a World of Good Medal, 2024
Elected to Academia Europaea, 2024
Society for Biological Engineering: James E. Bailey Award, 2023
Elected to the National Academy of Sciences, 2023
ARPA-E Grant to decrease carbon emissions in biorefining processes, 2021
Honorary doctorate, Technical University of Dortmund, Germany, 2020
The Gaden Award for Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 2019
Novozymes Award for Excellence in Biochemical and Chemical Engineering, 2017
Honorary doctorate, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 2016
Eric and Sheila Samson Prime Minister’s Prize for Innovation in Alternative Fuels for Transportation, 2016
Elected 2015 President of the AIChE, 2014
Walker Award for Excellence in Contributions to Chemical Engineering Literature, 2014
Elected Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology, 2013
John Fritz Medal of the AAES, 2013
Siegfried Medal, 2012
AIChE Fellow, 2012
Inaugural Biotechnology Progress Award for Excellence in Biological Engineering Publication, 2011
Corresponding Foreign Member of the Academy of Athens, Greece, 2011
ENI Prize on Renewable and Non-Conventional Energy, 2011
BIO – George Washington Carver Award for Innovation in Industrial – Biotechnology, 2010
ACS E.V. Murphree Award, 2010
Amgen Biochemical Engineering Award, 2009
AIChE Founders Award, 2007
Charles Thorn Award from the SIM, 2007
Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2005
Elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), 2003
Merck Award in Metabolic Engineering, 2002
AIChE Wilhelm Award in Chemical Reaction Engineering, 2001
Marvin Johnson Award, ACS, 2000
AIChE Food, Pharma & Bioengineering Division Award, 1997
Inaugural Bayer Lecture on Biochem Eng, UC Berkeley, 1996
Chairman, Food, Pharmaceutical and Bioeng Division, AIChE, 1992
Founding Fellow, AIMBE, 1992
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher and Scholar Award, 1982
Excellence in Teaching Award, CalTech, 1982
Presidential Young Investigator Award, NSF, 1984
Technical Achievement Award, Southern Cal. AIChE, 1984
transport in nanopores, thermopower waves for energy generation, exciton engineering for solar energy, nanosensors for reaction network analysis
Ph.D., University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2002
B.S., Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY, 1997
AIChE’s Andreas Acrivos Award for Professional Progress in Chemical Engineering, 2019
Bose Research Grant Award, 2017
Elected to the National Academy of Engineering, 2017
World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds list, Thomson Reuters, 2016
Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher, 2015
Popular Science’s ‘Brilliant 10’, 2009
American Institute of Chemical Engineering, Colburn Award, 2008
Office of Naval Research, Young Investigator Award, 2008
Colburn Memorial Lectureship, University of Delaware, 2008
Outstanding Investigator Award, Materials Research Society, 2008
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, 2008
National Academy of Engineers, Frontiers of Engineering Invitee, 2007
American Chemical Society Unilever Award for Colloidal Science, 2007
Henry and Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, 2007
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, 2006
Collaboration Success Award, Council of Chemical Research, 2006
Beckman Young Investor Award, 2006
3M Untenured Faculty Award, 2006
Coblentz Award for Molecular Spectroscopy, Coblentz Society, 2006
Young Investigator Award, Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum, AIChE, 2006
Top 1% of Highly Cited Researchers, ESI/Web of Science, 2005
National Science Foundation Career Award, 2005
Top Young Innovator Award, MIT Technology Review, 2005
DuPont Young Investigator Award, 2004
Most significant advances of 2003
C&EN, 2004
environmental remediation and control technology, chemical processes in supercritical fluids, technologies for renewable and geothermal energy systems, gas hydrates in natural environments
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1971
M.S., Cornell University, 1967
B.S., Cornell University, 1966
National Academy of Engineering, 2021
Special Achievement Award, Geothermal Resources Council, 2011
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2010
Graduate Student Council Teaching Award, ChemE , 1990
Outstanding Faculty Member Award, ChemE , 1986, 1987, 1989, and 2001
Outstanding Chemical Engineer, AIC, New Mexico Chapter, 1980
dynamic modeling, simulation and optimization, hybrid and embedded systems, mixed-integer and global optimization theory and algorithms, design and operation of micro-scale chemical processes, systems biology, energy systems engineering
Ph.D., Imperial College, University of London, 1992
M. Eng., Imperial College, University of London, 1988
Constantin Caratheodory Prize, International Society of Global Optimization, 2021
Journal of Global Optimization, Best Paper Award, 2012
Computing in Chem. Eng. Award of AIChE’s CAST Division, 2011
Indo-American Frontiers of Engineering Award, 2008
Outstanding Young Researcher Award, AIChE CAST Division, 2004
Best Paper Award, Computers and Chemical Engineering, 2004
Hoyt C. Hottel Career Development Professorship, 1992-1997
IChemE’s Hinchley Medal, 1988
BOC/Dr. M.P. Schuftan Memorial Prize for Process Design, 1987
polymer molecular theory, polymer fluid mechanics, rheology, multiscale process modeling, transport phenomena, applied mathematics
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1973,
B.ChE., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1970
AIChE Founders Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Chemical Engineering, 2020
Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2020
Elected Member of the National Academy of Engineering, 2008
Bingham Medal Award, 2006
University of Wisconsin Distinguished Service Citation, 2001
Georgia Tech Academy of Distinguished Alumni, 1996
Warren McCabe Lecturer, North Carolina State University, 1995
Society of Rheology, President, 1993-95
Professional Progress Award, AIChE, 1992
Dynamics of Polymeric Liquids named as a Citation Classic, 1988
Midwest Mechanics Seminar Series Lecturer, 1987
Outstanding Faculty Award, ChemE Dept., MIT, 1975, 1976
DuPont Young Faculty Award, 1974, 1975
colloid and interface science; thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and molecular simulations of surfactant self-assembly and hydrophobic solute micellar-enhanced solubilization in aqueous media; thermodynamics, molecular simulations, and kinetics of the dispersion and stabilization of nanomaterials (carbon nanotubes, graphene, MoS2) using solvents and aqueous surfactant solutions; transdermal and oral drug delivery
Ph.D., Tel-Aviv University, 1983
M.Sc., Tel-Aviv University, 1979
B.Sc., Tel-Aviv University, 1977
Lectures in Classical Thermodynamics with an Introduction to Statistical Mechanics, 2021
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Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Advising, 2015
Outstanding Faculty Award, ChemE Dept, MIT: 1991, 1993, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2008, 2011, and 2015
Society of Cosmetic Chemists, Best Poster Award, 2004
NE Society of Cosmetic Chemists, Best Paper Award, 2001
Controlled Release Society, Dow Corning Award, 1999
American Pharmaceutical Association, Ebert Prize, 1996
Harvard Health Letter, Outstanding Research Award, 1996
NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1989
immunology, regulation of transcription, statistical mechanics
Ph.D., University of Delaware, 1988
B. of Tech., Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 1983
Tel Aviv University International Prize in Biophysics, 2026
AIChE’s Alpha Chi Sigma Award, 2025
James Swan Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, Chemical Engineering Department, MIT, 2023
Doctor of Science Honoris Causa, University of Chicago, 2023
APS Max Delbrück Prize in Biological Physics, 2023
Honorary Doctorate of Science, University of Delaware, 2022
John M. Deutch Institute Professor, MIT, 2021
Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, Chemical Engineering Department, MIT, 2021
John M. Prausnitz Institute Lecturer, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2021
Schiesser Distinguished Lecture, Lehigh University, 2020
Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, Chemical Engineering Department, MIT, 2020
Inaugural annual IMES Founder’s Lecture, 2019
Doctor of Engineering honoris causa, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (awarded 2019, conferred 2020)
Guggenheim Fellowship, 2018
Moore Distinguished Scholar, Caltech, 2018
Elected, Member of the National Academy of Medicine, 2017
Arthur D. Little Lectures, MIT, 2017
Elected, Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016
Richard S. Mah Lectures, Northwestern University, 2016
Berman Memorial Lectures in Medical Physics, George Washington University, 2014
Weaver Lectures in Biophysics, UC Davis, 2014
David Ollis Lectures in Chemical Engineering, NC State University, 2013
Britton Chance Lectures in Engineering & Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 2012
Outstanding Graduate Teaching award, Chemical Engineering department, MIT, 2012
Bayer Lectures, University of Pittsburgh, 2012
Lacey Lectures, Caltech, 2011
Katz Lectures, CCNY, 2010
Raman Memorial Lectures, India, 2009
Outstanding Graduate Teaching award, Chemical Engineering department, MIT, 2009
Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2008
Distinguished Alumnus Award, Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur, 2008
Elected, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2007
E.O. Lawrence Award for Life Sciences, DOE, 2007
NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, 2006
Presidential Citation for Outstanding Achievement, University of Delaware, 2005
Wilber Lecture, Rice University, 2005
Doraiswamy Lecturer, Iowa State Univ. and National Chemical Laboratory, India, 2005
Dept. of Chem. Eng. Teaching Award, UC Berkeley, 2005
Engineering Foundation Endowed Lectureship, U.T. Austin, 2005
Elected, Member of the National Academy of Engineering, 2004
Professional Progress Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2004
Merck Collaboratus Lectures, Rutgers University, 2004
Trotter Lecturer, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2004
Chemcon Distinguished Lecturer Award, Bhubaneswar, India, 2003
Robert W. Vaughan Memorial Lecturer, Caltech, 2000
Research Professor, Miller Institute for Basic Science, Berkeley, 1999-2000
Featured Speaker, NAE Frontiers of Engineering Meeting, 1999
Allan P. Colburn Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 1996
Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, 1994
AIChE, Berkeley Student Chapter, Appreciation for Distinguished Teaching, 1996-97
National Young Investigator Award, 1992-1997
Allan P. Colburn Memorial Lecture, University of Delaware, 1993
Royal Academy of Engineering (U.K.), ICI Fellowship, 1993- 1998
Shell Young Faculty Fellow, 1989-1992
Best Review Paper, Intnl. Conference on Polymer/Solid Interfaces, Belgium, 1991
biomedical engineering, biochemical engineering, mass transfer
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1969
B.ChE., Cornell University, 1964
Gambro AB Award, International Society of Blood Purification, 1986
Curtis W. McGraw Research Award, American Society for Engineering Education, 1980
Allan P. Colburn Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 1977
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar Award, 1972