synthesis and characterization of new inorganic and organic materials for applications in small molecule transformations (e.g. CO2 and O2 reduction, and natural gas conversion), energy conversion and storage, sensing, gas separation, and biotechnology
Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 2008
B.A., Princeton University, 2003
electrocatalysis, heterogeneous catalysis, CO2 utilization, reaction mechanisms, interfacial engineering
Miller Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley, 2011-2013
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011
B.S., University of Virginia, 2006
Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education, American Chemical Society, 2020
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists & Engineers, 2019
E. Bright Wilson Prize, Harvard University, 2019
CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar, 2018
Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow, Kavli Foundation, 2018
Cottrell Scholar Award, Research Corporation for Science Advancement, 2017
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 2016
Toyota Young Investigator Award, The Electrochemical Society, 2015
DOE Young Investigator Award, 2015
AFOSR Young Investigator Award, 2015
NSF CAREER Award, 2015
block copolymers, soft condensed matter physics, protein-based materials, bioelectronics
Ph.D., University of California Berkeley, 2007
S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003
American Physical Society (APS) Fellow, 2023
Fulbright Amazonia Scholar, 2023
Alexander and I. Michael (1960) Kasser Chair in Chemical Engineering, 2021
ACS Macro Letters/Biomacromolecules/Macromolecules Young Investigator Award, 2021
MIT OGE’s Committed to Caring Honor, 2019
AIChE Owens Corning Early Career Award, 2019
American Physical Society, Dillon Medal, 2018
Kavli Foundation Emerging Leader in Chemistry, 2017
ACS Polymer Division Fellow, 2016
AIChE – Allan P. Colburn Award, 2015
DuPont Young Professor Award, 2015
Camille Dreyfus-Teacher Scholar, 2015
ACS Herman F. Mark Young Scholar, 2015
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Chemistry, 2014
NSF Career Grant, 2013
AFOSR award, 2012
NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, 2008-2009
Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, 2008-2009
Hertz Fellow, 2003-2007
Tau Beta Pi Fellow, 2003-2004
Sigma Xi, 2003
Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, 2002
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
electrochemical energy conversion and storage, microfluidics, interfacial phenomena, catalyst synthesis, and tomography
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010
M.S.E., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009
B.S.E., University of Pennsylvania, 2006
AIChE’s Allan P. Colburn Award for Excellence in Publications by a Young Member of the Institute, 2022
ECS’s Charles W. Tobias Young Investigator Award, 2022
NOBCChE – Lloyd N. Ferguson Young Scientist Award for Excellence in Research, 2020
Electrochemical Society – Energy Technology Division Supramaniam Srinivasan Young Investigator Award, 2019
Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Chair, MIT, 2018
I&ECR, Class of 2017 Influential Researcher, 2017
C&EN, Talented Twelve, 2017
Director’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, Argonne National Laboratory, 2010-2012
Harry G. Drickamer Research Fellowship, 2009-2010
GEM PhD Engineering Fellowship, 2006-2010
SURGE Fellowship, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006-2010
American Chemical Society Scholar, 2002-2006
catalysis, transition-metal chemistry, electronic structure methods, atomistic simulations, enzyme catalysis
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009
B.E., The Cooper Union, 2004
AIChE CoMSEF Impact Award, 2023
Hans-Fischer Senior Fellowship, 2023
MSDE Outstanding Early-Career Paper Award, 2021
Sloan Research Fellow in Chemistry, 2021
DARPA Director’s Fellowship Award, 2020
Journal of Physical Chemistry and PHYS Division Lectureship Award, 2019
NSF CAREER Award, 2019
Marion Milligan Mason Award, 2019
DARPA Young Faculty Award, 2018
ONR Young Investigator Award, 2018
ACS OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, 2018
I&ECR, Class of 2017 Influential Researcher, 2017
Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface, 2012-2017
National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Fellow, 2004-2008
William C. and Esther Hoffman Beller Prize for Excellence in Chemical Engineering, 2004
United States Presidential Scholar, 2000
molecular engineering of soft condensed matter, polymer science and engineering, statistical mechanics and molecular simulation, electrospinning and electrospun fibers
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990
B.S., University of Virginia, 1983
AIChE Braskem Award for Excellence in Materials Engineering and Science, 2022
Elected AIChE Fellow, 2017
Fellow, PMSE Division, American Chemical Society, 2015
Fiber Society Founder’s Award, 2014
Lammot du Pont Professorship of Chemical Engineering, 2007
Peter Anthony Leermakers Symposium Lecturer, Wesleyan Univ, 2006
Fellow, America Physical Society, 2005
H.A. Morton Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Akron, 2000
Best Paper Award, Plastics Analysis Division, SPE, 1997
National Young Investigator Award, NSF, 1994
3M Innovation Award, 1993
DuPont Young Faculty Award, 1992
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
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
pharmaceutical manufacturing, stabilization and formulation of biopharmaceuticals, nucleation and crystallization, molecular-level design of products and processes, molecular simulations and theory of reactions incomplex systems
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1996
S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990
S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990
The Medicine Maker “Power List”, 2017
The Medicine Maker “Power List”, 2016
AIChE Division 15 (FPBE) Plenary Speaking Award, 2015
Armenian Academy of Engineering, Foreign Member, elected 2015
The Medicine Maker “Power List”, 2015
CCR Research Collaboration Award, 2014
AIChE Excellence in Process Development Research Award, 2014
Council for Chemical Collaboration Award, 2014
Manufacturing Technology Runner-up for the Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award, 2012
Impact Award from the Computational Molecular Science and Engineering Forum of the AIChE (CoMSEF), 2011
NAE invitation to “Frontiers in Engineering,” 2001
Henry L. and Grace Doherty Professorship, 2001-2003
Ford Motor Company Young Investigator Award, 2001
NSF CAREER Award, 2000-2004
Joseph R. Mares Junior Faculty Chair, 1998-2001
Max-Planck Institute Fellowship, 1996-1997
NSF Graduate Fellowship, 1991-1994
The Molecular Engineering Laboratory at MIT: The Trout Research Group
Professional Education: Formulation and Stabilization of Biotherapeutics [10.50s]
Professional Education: AI and Ethics: Safeguarding Humanity (virtual)