AIChE Members Elected to NAE’s Class of 2023

Claire S. Adjiman, Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, United Kingdom — “For developing the fundamental principles for advanced thermodynamic modeling of complex fluids and improving industrial productivity using these models.”

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Leo H. Chiang, Senior R&D Fellow, Dow Chemical Co., Lake Jackson, TX — “For contributions to process data analytics and its applications to process monitoring, and for continuous improvement in the chemical industry.”

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Dimitris I. Collias, Research Fellow, Procter & Gamble Co., West Chester, OH — “For innovations in sustainable plastics used in consumer products to lower the carbon intensity of high-volume polymers.”

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Steven M. Cramer, William Weightman Walker Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY — “For scientific and technological advances leading to new chromatographic materials, processes, and predictive tools for the purification of biopharmaceuticals.”

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Peter T. Cummings, John R. Hall Professor of Chemical Engineering (emeritus) and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (emeritus), Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN —  “For simulation-based solutions to chemical engineering problems, and for innovations and leadership in modeling and computational nanoscience.”

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Jennifer Sinclair Curtis, Distinguished Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Univ. of California, Davis — “For work on particle-laden flows and industrially used algorithms for dilute and dense-phase gas-solid flow.”

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Benny D. Freeman, William J. (Bill) Murray Jr. Endowed Chair in Engineering, McKetta Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Univ. of Texas at Austin — “For the development of polymeric membranes for gas separation, ion transport, and gas and water purification.”

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Peter F. Green, Deputy Laboratory Director and Chief Research Officer, Science and Technology, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO — “For contributions in the physics of polymer diffusion, glass behavior, and organic electronic devices and leadership in the energy technologies.”

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Deborah L. Grubbe, President and Owner, Operations and Safety Solutions LLC, Chadds Ford, PA — “For contributions and leadership to improve engineering safety practices in the chemical process industries.”

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David Parrillo, Vice President, Research and Development, Dow Chemical Co., Midland, MI — “For development and commercialization of innovative processes and products for consumer and industrial applications.”

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Mark Prausnitz, Regents’ Professor and J. Erskine Love Jr. Chair in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA — “For invention, development, and translation of dissolvable microneedles for painless vaccination and drug delivery.”

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James E. Rekoske, Senior Vice President, Global RD&E Industrial, Ecolab, Glenview, IL — “For leadership in development and implementation of petrochemicals, renewable fuel, alternative energy, and water conservation technologies.”

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Melody A. Swartz, William B. Ogden Professor, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, Univ. of Chicago — “For fundamental and translational insights into lymphatic transport, immunobiology, and immunoengineering, leading to novel approaches for cancer immunotherapy and vaccination.”

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