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Sahand Rahi

After completing his undergraduate studies at Penn, Sahand studied theoretical statistical physics at MIT. As an Independent Fellow at The Rockefeller University, he transitioned to the intersection of physics and biology. His lab's current work on directed evolution of switchable proteins, including optogenetics, leverages the cell cycle oscillator whose drivers he worked to define as a postdoc.

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Vent Stack Incident in Japan

This record is the intellectual property of the Center for Hydrogen Safety (CHS) for use by its members and should not be disseminated to nonmembers without written permission from CHS. Incident Date: March 7, 2023 Record Date: December 16, 2024 Background and Summary of Incident A hydrogen tube...

2024 Shell Thomas Baron Award in Fluid-Particle Systems

Carlos Rinaldi

Dr. Carlos M. Rinaldi-Ramos is the Chair and Dean’s Leadership Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and a Professor in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida. He was born and raised in Puerto Rico, receiving his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez in 1998. He completed degrees in Master of Science in Chemical Engineering (2001), Master of Science in Chemical Engineering Practice (2001), and Doctor of Philosophy (2002) in Chemical Engineering at the...Read more

Vijay Murugesan

Vijay Murugesan is a staff scientist in the Physical Sciences Division and group leader for the Materials Sciences group. His research focuses on charge/mass transfer across heterogeneous interfaces and materials. He frequently partners with the DOE Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences program, as well as the DOE Office of Electricity and Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy to explore chemical stability and resiliency of energy storage materials. In 2018, he was selected as focus area lead for the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research, DOE‘s energy storage hub where...Read more

Kiana Amini

Kiana Amini is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Engineering at the University of British Columbia, where she began in August 2023. She earned her MASc and PhD from the University of Waterloo, where her doctoral research centered on the development of zinc-based flow cells for clean energy storage applications. Following her PhD, she served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University, where she focused on the design and development of multiple organic and organometallic-based redox flow batteries for energy storage, as well as aqueous organic-based flow cells for...Read more

UC Santa Barbara’s James Rawlings Will Receive AIChE’s Warren K. Lewis Award for ChE Education

September 19, 2024
James Rawlings
September 30, 2024

Dr. Rawlings is being honored for groundbreaking research in the theory and application of model predictive control, and for leadership in education.

White House HBCU Initiative Honors FOSSI with 2024 Chairman’s Award

September 19, 2024
PHILADELPHIA, PA (September 18, 2024) – The Future of STEM Scholars Initiative (FOSSI) was honored with the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) 2024 Chairman’s Award, one of the Excellence in Innovation and...

September 2024 CEP Preview

September 18, 2024
September 20, 2024

This month, a look back at Bhopal and how it affected process safety culture, tips for heat integration by side reboiling, applying lifecycle thinking for next-generation chemical engineering, and more.

FOSSI Receives the White House Initiative on HBCUs 2024 Chairman’s Award

September 18, 2024
The Future of STEM Scholars Initiative (FOSSI) was honored with the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) 2024 Chairman’s Award, part of the Excellence in Innovation and Collaboration Acknowledgement Awards, presented during the 2024 National HBCU Week Conference.

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