Community Status: Faculty

J. Christopher Love

Research Interests

micro/nanofabrication and surface chemistries, cellular immunology and infectious diseases, immunotherapy/vaccines, clinical diagnostics

Education

Ph.D., Harvard University, 2004

B.S., University of Virginia, 1999

Publications

Honors and Awards

Raymond A. (1921) and Helen E. St. Laurent Chair in Chemical Engineering, 2018

Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, 2012

Two NIH Single-Cell Analysis Program awards, 2012

Popular Science’s ‘Brilliant 10, 2010

W.M. Keck Distinguished Young Scholar for Medical Research, 2009

Dana Scholar for Human Immunology, 2009

Life Sciences Research Foundation Postdoc Fellow (Gilead Sciences), 2004

Foresight Distinguished Student Award in Nanotechnology, 2000

Natl. Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow, 1999-2002

Barry S. Goldwater Scholarship, 1998

Phi Beta Kappa, 1998

Gregory J. McRae

Research Interests

atmospheric processes responsible for oxidant formation, acid deposition and global climate, particulate dynamics, chemical transport and transformations in multimedia environments environmental science and engineering, process modeling, numerical analysis and optimization

Education

Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1981

M.S., California Institute of Technology, 1975

B.E., Monash University, Australia, 1971

Publications

Honors and Awards

Foremost-McKesson Foundation Fellowship, Caltech

Oscar Weigel Exhibition in Engineering, Monash University

Production Equip. Prize and Solid Mechanics Prize, Monash Univ

AAAS U.S. EPA Environmental Science Fellowship

National Computer Graphics Prize, 1991

The Niccograph Scientific Visualization Prize, 1991

CGS of Japan Award for Scientific Visualization, 1991

Forefronts of Computational Science Award, 1990

George Tallman Ladd Research Prize, 1985

Presidential Young Investigator Award, NSF, 1984

Current Technical and Government Committees: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Member of Review Panels)

National Research Council (Two current committees)

NAS (Panel on Destruction of Chemical Warfare Agents)

Advisory Board of the Combustion Research Facility at SANDIA

U.S. DoE Science Advisory Board for Advanced Scientific Computing

Five editorial boards

Kristala L. Jones Prather

Research Interests

metabolic engineering, biochemical engineering, bioprocess engineering, synthetic biology

Education

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1999

S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994

Publications

Honors and Awards

Amgen Award in Biochemical and Molecular Engineering, 2026

Elected, Member of the National Academy of Engineering, 2025

MIT, Committed to Caring (C2C) Award, 2023-25

AIChE’s Andreas Acrivos Award for Professional Progress in Chemical Engineering, 2021

Gordon Y. Billard Award, 2021

Fellow of the AAAS, 2018

MLK Leadership Award, 2017

Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 2014-15

MacVicar Faculty Fellow, 2014

Biochemical Engineering Journal Young Investigator Award, 2011

MIT School of Engineering Junior Bose Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2010

National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2010

Technology Review “TR35” Young Innovator, 2007

Outstanding Faculty Award for Undergraduate Teaching, 2006

Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, 2005

Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation New Faculty Award, 2004

Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 1998

UNCF-Merck Science Initiative Graduate Fellowship, 1996

NOBCChE/DuPont Graduate Fellowship Award, 1996

NDSEG Fellowship, 1994

Robert T. Haslam Cup ChemE Dept, MIT, 1994

Karl Taylor Compton Prize, MIT, 1994

NSBE Distinguished Fellow, 1994