(428a) CRE Professional Development Panel

Jeremy T. Feaster is a Principal Investigator and Research Staff Scientist in the Materials Science Division at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. His research focuses on using advanced manufacturing and chemical engineering to address climate change; specifically, Dr. Feaster and his team create 3D printed electrochemical reactors to convert CO₂ into fuels and chemicals. Dr. Feaster earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University after completing his B.S. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech. A passionate proponent of uplifting communities of color, he started the Jeremy T. Feaster Foundation, Inc., in 2012. A 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, the Feaster Foundation has awarded over $20,000 in scholarships to Black and underrepresented students around the nation, as well as run a nonprofit leadership and mentorship program for students who want to "lift as they climb" and start their own organizations to benefit their communities.

Dr. Feaster is the recipient of the following awards:

• 2021 Pioneer of Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual Meeting.
• 2020 Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow Award Winner in Physical Life Sciences (PLS), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
• 2020 Diversity & Inclusion Director’s Award Winner for “Providing mentorship and guidance to African American Students at Livermore High School,” Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
• 2019 Postdoctoral Research SLAM Competition Finalist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
• 2017 Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Winner of the Student and Postdoc Team Science Competition, Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) Hub PI Meeting.
• 2015 Diversifying Academia, Recruiting Excellence (DARE) Doctoral Fellowship, Stanford University.
• 2015 Distinguished Student Lecturer Award, Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) Annual Research Symposium.
• 2012 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, Stanford University.
• 2012 GEM National Consortium Fellowship, ExxonMobil Corporation and Stanford University.

Rachel B. Getman is the Murdoch Family Endowed Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Clemson University. In 2017 she was the first woman to be tenured in her department, and in 2022, she was the first woman to be promoted to full professor in her department in its 105-year history. Dr. Getman’s research group uses quantum chemical calculations and Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics simulations to learn about molecular phenomena at fluid/solid interfaces. Dr. Getman is particularly interested in how solvent configurations and solvation energetics influence processes in heterogeneous catalysis and separations. Dr. Getman holds a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, a Clemson University Board of Trustees Award for Excellence, and a Professor of Affordable Learning Award from the South Carolina Affordable Learning Group. She presently serves as the Area Vice Chair for the Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and as a Member-At-Large for the CATL Division of the American Chemical Society. Dr. Getman earned dual BS degrees in Chemical Engineering and Business Administration from Michigan Technological University in 2004. She earned her PhD from the University of Notre Dame in 2009, where she worked with William Schneider simulating catalytic oxidations under ambient conditions. From 2009 – 2011, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Randall Snurr at Northwestern University, simulating gas storage in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). Dr. Getman started her independent career in August 2011. She presently lives in Upstate South Carolina with her husband and their two children, who are eleven and nine years old. In her free time, Dr. Getman enjoys running exhaustively long distances, working out at Orangetheory Fitness, reading young adult novels and stories that center LGBTQIA+ people and people of color, listening to audiobooks and podcasts about true crime, and being a swim, soccer, volleyball, and cross-country parent.

Martin D. Johnson is VP Engineering at Eli Lilly and Company in Synthetic Molecule Design and Development. He received his dual doctorate in chemical engineering and environmental engineering from the University of Michigan in 2000, and his undergraduate in Chemical Engineering from Virginia Tech. Prior to joining Eli Lilly in 2005, he worked as a process research engineer at Union Carbide and The Dow Chemical Company in the Engineering Sciences and Market Development department, focusing on process development and separations. At Eli Lilly, Dr. Johnson leads a group of engineers who focus on design and development of continuous processes. Dr. Johnson’s group has used continuous reactions in the manufacture of active pharmaceutical ingredients for highly exothermic and hazardous reactions, high pressure reactions with hazardous gas reagent like hydrogenations, chemistries at extreme temperatures and pressures, and process separations including distillation, extraction, crystallization, and filtration. Eli Lilly has implemented his continuous processes for the production of active pharmaceutical ingredient in cGMP manufacturing both internally at the Lilly facility in Ireland and externally in multiple contract manufacturing organizations. He received the 2016 ACS Award for Affordable Green Chemistry for work with continuous aerobic oxidations, the 2016 AIChE Award for Outstanding Contribution to QbD for Drug Substance for implementation of continuous processes, and the 2021 Practice Award in the Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division of AIChE for design and application of new continuous reactors.

Dr. Johnson’s team has enabled safe scale up of previously forbidden chemistries. They invented the vertical bubble-flow pipes-in-series reactor for continuous high-pressure gas/liquid reactions that safely runs high pressure H2 and O2 at manufacturing scale. They created a new technology for safer Grignard reaction using Mg-sequestering-continuous-stirred-tank-reactors (CSTRs). They developed fully continuous processes, akin to assembly lines with all reaction, workup, and purification steps running simultaneously. Cytotoxic APIs were produced in disposable equipment to eliminate cross-contamination potential, contained in hoods to protect people. When the SMDD portfolio shifted in 2017 and in 2020 to include peptides and oligonucleotides respectively, Dr. Johnson led his team to immediately apply their continuous processing tools, automation, and expertise to improve tides syntheses.

Umit S. Ozkan is a Distinguished University Professor and a College of Engineering Distinguished Professor at The Ohio State University. She received her Ph.D from Iowa State University in 1984 and joined the faculty of OSU in 1985. Between 2000 and 2005, she also served as the Associate Dean for Research in the College of Engineering. She held Visiting Scientist and Visiting Professor positions at the French Institut de Recherches sur la Catalyse (Catalysis Research Institute) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and Université Claude Bernard, respectively. Currently, she is the Chair of the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department.

Dr. Ozkan’s current research interests are focused on heterogeneous catalysis and electro-catalysis. She has edited eight books, has written over 250 refereed publications and book chapters, given over 350 conference presentations and over 150 invited lectures in 20 different countries. She has seven patents and over 13,000 citations. Professor Ozkan has held and continues to hold many leadership positions in several professional organizations. She served as the Co-chair of the Continuing Symposia in Catalysis for the Colloids and Surface Chemistry Division (1994-2000), the ACS Petroleum Chemistry Division Secretary (1998-99), member of the Board of Directors of the Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division of AICHE (1996-1999, 2008-2011). In 2002-2003, she served as the President of the ACS, Petroleum Chemistry Division. She was the Secretary for the North American Catalysis Society (2000-2009) She is on the Editorial Boards of Catalysis Today, Journal of Molecular Catalysis, Catalysis Letters, Topics in Catalysis, The Royal Society of Chemistry, Catalysis Book Series, Applied Catalysis B, ACS Applied Energy Materials, Catalysis Reviews in Science and Engineering, ACS Catalysis, Nature Sustainability, and Journal of Catalysis. Dr. Ozkan is a Professional Engineer registered in Ohio. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAS), American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AICHE), and American Chemical Society (ACS).

Professor Ozkan is the recipient of many honors and awards including ACS Henry H. Storch Award (2017), ACS Energy and Fuels Distinguished Researcher Award (2012), John van Geuns Lectureship Award at the Van't Hoff Institute at the University of Amsterdam (2010), Iowa State University, Professional Achievement Citation in Engineering (2010), AICHE Mentorship Excellence Award (2009), Fulbright Senior Scholar Award (2007), OSU College of Engineering Scott Faculty Excellence Award (2004), the Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award (2002), American Chemical Society, Columbus Section Outstanding Research in Chemistry Award (2002), the Ohio State University Distinguished Scholar Award (1999), Iowa State University, College of Engineering Professional Progress Award (1999), Pittsburgh-Cleveland Catalysis Society Award (1998), French C.N.R.S. Fellowship (1994-95), Keck Foundation Excellence in Engineering Education Award (1994), OSU College of Engineering Harrison Outstanding Faculty Award (1993), OSU College of Engineering Lumley Research Award (1991, 1996, 2000, 2006, and 2011), National Science Foundation Woman Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research (1991), OSU College of Engineering McQuigg Outstanding Teaching Award (1990), and Union Carbide Innovation Recognition Award (1991, 1992). In 2013, a special volume of Topics in Catalysis, a premier journal in the field of catalysis, was dedicated in her honor (Volume 56, issues 18-20). The volume included contributions from 35 different research groups from 12 different countries. In 2019, she was honored by a special volume of Catalysis Today (Volume 323, 270 pages, 2019).

In her research group, Dr. Ozkan has advised and mentored over 100 graduate students, post-doctoral researchers and honors students.