Profile Placement: Faculty

William A. Tisdale

Research Interests

renewable energy, nanotechnology, energy transport in nanomaterials, nonlinear spectroscopy, spectroscopic imaging

Education

Postdoc, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010-2011

Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2010

B.S., University of Delaware, 2005

Publications

Honors and Awards

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

Charles L. Cooney

Research Interests

biochemical engineering

Education

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1970

S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1967

B.S., University of Pennsylvania, 1966

Publications

Honors and Awards

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

William M. Deen

Research Interests

bioengineering, transport phenomena, membrane separations

Education

Ph.D., Stanford University, 1973

M.S., Stanford University, 1971

B.S., Columbia University, 1969

Publications

Honors and Awards

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

 

Patrick S. Doyle

Research Interests

microfluidics, complex fluids, polymer physics, rheology and transport phenomena

Education

Ph.D., Stanford University, 1997

M.S., Stanford University, 1993

B.S., University of Pennsylvania, 1992

Publications

Honors and Awards

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

Karen K. Gleason

Research Interests

chemical vapor deposition, membranes, organic surfaces, interfaces, and devices

Education

Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1987

S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982

S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982

Publications

Honors and Awards

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

William H. Green

Research Interests

chemical kinetics, molecular simulation, free radical reactions

Education

Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1988

B.A., Swarthmore College, 1983

Publications

Honors and Awards

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

Paula T. Hammond

Research Interests

macromolecular design and synthesis, targeted drug delivery for cancer, nanoscale assembly of synthetic biomaterials, electrostatic and directed materials assembly

Education

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993

M.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1988

S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984

Publications

Honors and Awards

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

T. Alan Hatton

Research Interests

transport phenomena, separation processes, microemulsions, colloids

Education

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1981

M.Sc., Eng, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa, 1976

B.Sc., Eng, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa, 1972

Publications

Honors and Awards

Founding Fellow, AIMBE, 1992

Merck Faculty Development Award, 1989

Class of ’22 Career Development Chair, 1988

Presidential Young Investigator Award, NSF, 1985

Everett Moore Baker Award for Excellence in UG Teaching, MIT, 1983

Klavs F. Jensen

Research Interests

microsystems for chemical and biological applications,materials synthesis and processing, multiscale simulation of reactive processes

Education

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1980

M.Sc., Technical University of Denmark, 1976

Publications

Honors and Awards

The Neal R. Amundson Award, 2023

National Academy of Inventors Fellow, 2022

Corning Int’l Prize for Outstanding Work in Continuous Flow Reactors & Chemistry for a Greener and Safer World, 2018

John Prausnitz AIChE Institute Lecturer Award, 2018

Elected to the National Academy of Sciences, 2017

AIChE Founders Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Chemical Engineering, 2016

IUPAC-ThalesNano International Prize, 2012

AIChE’s William H. Walker Award for Excellence in Contributions to Chemical Engineering Literature, 2011

Elected AIChE Fellow, 2009

American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2008

Royal Society of Chemistry, 2004

National Academy of Engineering, 2002

R. H. Wilhem Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2000

Berkeley Lectures in Chemical Engineering, UC Berkeley, 2000

Charles M.A. Stine Award, AIChE, 1995

Allan P. Colburn Award of the AIChE, 1987

John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 1987

Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, 1987

Presidential Young Investigator Award (NSF), 1984

Young Author’s Award of the Electrochemical Society, 1983

Robert S. Langer

Research Interests

drug delivery, biomaterials, tissue engineering, biotechnology, immobilized enzymes, biomedical engineering

Education

Sc.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1974

B.S., Cornell University, 1970

Publications

Honors and Awards

CLRF Lipid Science Prize, 2025

Cato T. Laurencin Regenerative Engineering Founder’s Award, 2024

Kavli Prize in Nanoscience, 2024

Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research, 2023

Balzan Prize, 2022

BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Biology and Biomedicine, 2022

Maurice-Marie Janot Award, 2020

Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences, 2019

Number 1, Master of the Bench, Medicine Maker “Power List”, 2018

Kabiller Prize in Nanoscience and Nanomedicine, 2017

Number 1, Master of the Bench, Medicine Maker “Power List”, 2017

Honorary Doctor of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, 2016

World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds list, Thomson Reuters, 2016

Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, 2015

Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year, 2015

Kyoto Prize, 2014

The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, 2013

Israel’s Wolf Prize in Chemistry, 2013

National Medal of Technology and Innovation, 2013

Elected to National Academy of Inventors, 2012

Wilhelm Exner Medal, 2012

Perkin Medal, 2012

Warren Alpert Foundation Prize, 2011

American Chemical Society Fellows, 2011

Millennium Technology Prize, 2008

Max Planck Research Award, 2008

Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, 2008

AIChE Founders Award, 2008

Chemistry of Materials Award (American Chemical Society), 2007

Herman F. Mark Award (ACS), 2007

United States National Medal of Science, 2006

National Inventors Hall of Fame, 2006

Dan David Prize in Materials Science, 2005

Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomed Research, 2005

General Motors Kettering Prize for Cancer Research, 2004

Heinz Award for Technology, Economy and Employment, 2003

Harvey Prize in Science and Technology and Human Health, 2003

John Fritz Award, 2003

Charles Stark Draper Prize, 2002

Dickson Prize for Science, 2002

Lemelson-MIT Prize for Invention and Innovation, 1998

Gairdner Foundation International Award, 1996

William Walker Award (AIChE), 1996

Elected to the National Academy of Sciences, 1992

Elected to the National Academy of Engineering, 1992

Stine Award in Materials Science and Engineering (AIChE), 1991

Professional Progress Award (AIChE), 1990

Elected to the Inst. of Medicine of the NAS, 1989

Food, Pharmaceutical and Bioengineering Award (AIChE), 1986