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Martin A. Abraham, PhD, editor-in-chief of AIChE’s Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy (EP&SE), currently serves as Interim President at Western Illinois Univ. Before joining WIU, he was the Founding Dean for the College of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics at Youngstown State Univ. and then Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at YSU. His area of research is sustainable energy and reaction engineering, and he has over 75 refereed publications. He earned a BS at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and PhD at the Univ. of Delaware, both in chemical engineering, and he is a Fellow of AIChE and the American Chemical Society.