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Fellow candidates are nominated by their peers and generally have about 25 years of significant practice in chemical engineering. They should also have demonstrated significant service to the profession and have been a member of AIChE for at least 10 years.
Please see below to learn more about some of AIChE’s recently elected fellows, who are also featured in the November print issue of CEP.
Christopher Burcham
Christopher Burcham is an Executive Director in the Synthetic Molecule Design and Development Dept. at Eli Lilly, where he leads the Solid Dispersion Engineering Group and is responsible for the technical oversight and advancement of spray drying and other absorption-enabling platforms. Prior to this role, he was the Scientific Team Leader for Reyvow (lasmiditan), a new selective serotonin 5-HT1F agonist for treatment of acute migraines in adults. He was also responsible for overseeing all aspects of drug substance and drug product development, including process and product development, regulatory registration, and technology transfer into Lilly’s manufacturing operations.
Mark K. Cox
Mark K. Cox is a veteran Fortune 500 executive. He was Chief Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Engineering Officer for Eastman, from which he retired following a 36-year career. His global business leadership background includes innovation and operations experience, and he holds U.S. and international patents associated with process technologies developed by Eastman. He is also a board member of numerous organizations. A longtime AIChE member, he has served in roles ranging from participation on the Program Committee to presenting keynote talks at the Global Congress on Process Safety. He has also championed Eastman’s efforts as a Founders Circle company in the AIChE Foundation’s Doing a World of Good campaign.
Timothy Dodge
Timothy Dodge is Chief Engineer and Technical Fellow at International Flavors and Fragrances (IFF). He has been with the organization for nearly 40 years as the company evolved from Eastman Kodak, to Genencor International, to Danisco, to DuPont, before becoming IFF. Dodge was involved in the early years of industrial metabolic engineering (synthetic biology), with most of his career spent producing industrial enzymes that resulted in hundreds of products with total annual sales of more than $300 million. He also lectures on industrial biotechnology at Stanford Univ., UC Berkeley, UCLA, and his alma maters, the Univ. of Michigan and the Univ. of Minnesota.
Paul Mensah
Paul Mensah is the Senior Vice President and Head of Biotherapeutics Pharmaceutical Sciences at Pfizer Inc. His organization is responsible for the development of Pfizer’s expansive and diverse biotherapeutic, gene therapy, and vaccine portfolio, including the manufacture of early clinical supplies. Mensah and his team were instrumental in the development of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine Comirnaty, among many other Pfizer products. Mensah is a member of the AIChE Foundation Board of Trustees and the Society for Biological Engineering, among many other affiliations. He earned his PhD in chemical engineering at the Univ. of Virginia.
Ignasi Palou-Rivera
Ignasi Palou-Rivera is the Executive Director and Chief Technology Officer of the RAPID Manufacturing Institute. His 25-year career spans process development, process modeling and optimization, refinery planning and scheduling, technology valuation and commercialization, including technoeconomics, lifecycle, sustainability analysis, and R&D management. He worked for a variety of organizations, including Aspentech, Applied Materials, BP, LanzaTech, and Argonne National Laboratory, prior to joining RAPID in 2017. He has been active in AIChE’s Computing and Systems Technology Div. (CAST) and the Sustainable Engineering Forum, and he has also served on the Public Affairs and Information Committee.
Robert Zalosh
Robert Zalosh is Fire Protection Engineering Professor Emeritus at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and a consultant in industrial fire and explosion protection technology and incident investigations. He is an original member of the Hydrogen Safety Panel assisting the U.S. Dept. of Energy and AIChE’s Center for Hydrogen Safety. He has also assisted the U.S. Chemical Safety Board in many incident investigations. For 40 years, he has contributed presentations at AIChE’s Loss Prevention symposia, and he was the principal author of the first edition of the Center for Chemical Process Safety’s book Guidelines for Safe Handling of Powders and Bulk Solids.