Dr. Kilos is a Senior Research Scientist and Technical Leader in Chemical Science, Core R&D at Dow. She graduated from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland with a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Chemistry. As one of Europe’s few scholars selected for the prestigious Marie Curie Fellowship, she completed work toward the latter degree at the Institut de Recherches sur la Catalyse et l’Environnement de Lyon in Villeurbanne, France. Following her doctoral studies, Dr. Kilos worked as a postdoctoral researcher with a joint appointment at the University of California at Berkeley’s Department of...Read more
Ying Diao is an Associate Professor, University Scholar and Dow Chemical Company Faculty Scholar in Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She serves as the Co-Chair of Molecular Science and Engineering in the Beckman Institute of Advanced Science and Technology, and a Thrust Lead of the Molecular Maker Lab Institute - an NSF AI Institute. She received her Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from MIT in 2012. Her doctoral thesis was on understanding heterogeneous nucleation of pharmaceuticals by designing polymeric substrates. In...Read more