Ross Taylor is the Kodak Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at Clarkson Univ. (Potsdam, NY; Email: rtaylor@clarkson.edu), where he teaches equipment and process design courses. He has held a joint appointment at the Univ. of Twente in The Netherlands and visiting appointments at Delft Univ. of Technology, BP Engineering in the U.K., and Shell Global Solutions in Amsterdam. Taylor is an author of Multicomponent Mass Transfer (Wiley, 1993) and of ChemSep, a software package for rate-based column modeling. He is one of four authors of the distillation chapter in the 8th and 9th editions of Perry’s Chemical Engineers’ Handbook.