Cheryl Teich was the 2015 AIChE President.
Cheryl Teich formed Teich Process Development LLC in 2019 after retiring from The Dow Chemical Company as the Reaction Engineering Expertise Area Leader within the Company’s Operations (Manufacturing and Engineering) organization. Cheryl led a virtual, global group of experts, charged with providing reaction engineering expertise across the corporation over a wide range of development and manufacturing scales. Cheryl joined Dow in 2009 during its acquisition of Rohm and Haas, having joined the latter after earning her PhD. Over the course of her career at Dow/Rohm and Haas, Cheryl demonstrated an ever-increasing breadth, depth, leadership and management in process development, scaleup and improvement of reaction systems across a range of products, processes, and businesses. Her work has encompassed inorganic and organic small molecule chemistry, polymerization technologies, and multiphase reactive and non-reactive systems. She has been an official and unofficial coach and mentor to numerous early career chemical engineers in Operations and R&D roles.
Cheryl holds S.B. and S.M. degrees from MIT, and a PhD from the Stevens Institute of Technology, all in chemical engineering. She has been an adjunct professor of chemical engineering at Stevens, and has served on various NSF and DOE proposal review panels, and on the United Engineering Foundation Board. Cheryl serves on the Board of the Science History Institute (Philadelphia, PA) and chairs its Audit Committee, and is a member of External Advisory Board of the CCNY Chemical Engineering Department. An AIChE Fellow, Cheryl chaired the Institute Awards Committee in 2019 – 2020, and had the honor of being the 2015 President of the Institute.