2025 Leadership | AIChE

2025 Leadership

Executive Committee

Chair Marina Tsianou mtsianou@buffalo.edu
Vice Chair Haiqing Lin haiqingl@buffalo.edu
2nd Vice-Chair Christopher Burcham burcham_christopher_l@lilly.com
Treasurer Tarun Poddar tpoddar@att.net
Secretary Atanas Serbezov serbezov@rose-hulman.edu
Past Chair Isaac K. Gamwo gamwo@netl.doe.gov

Directors

Director (Diversity and Inclusion) Caryn Heldt heldt@mtu.edu
Director (Gerhold Award Chair) Daniel R Summers 190proofsummers@gmail.com
Director (Membership Growth) Evan S Hatakeyama ehatakey@gmail.com
Director (Awards Team) CJ Kurth cjkurth@gmail.com
Director (Liaison with Other Organizations) Tony Cai cai@fri.org
Director Stephen Ritchie sritchie@eng.ua.edu
Director (Communications) Heather Chenette chenette@rose-hulman.edu
Director (Awards Team) Joshua Thompson joshua.thompson@chevron.com
Director William Phillip wphillip@nd.edu
Director Handan Tezel htezel@uottawa.ca

Programming Areas Chairs and Vice-Chairs

Area 2b (Crystallization & Evaporation) Chair Gerard Capellades capellades@rowan.edu
Area 2b (Crystallization & Evaporation) Vice Chair Kevin Girard kevin.girard@pfizer.com
Area 2c (Extraction) Chair Dr David Cantu dcantu@unr.edu
Area 2c (Extraction) Vice Chair Venkateshkumar (Venky) Prabhakaran venky@pnnl.gov
Area 2d (Membrane-Based Separations) Chair Christine E Duval christine.duval@case.edu
Area 2e (Adsorption & Ion Exchange) Chair Daniel Siderius daniel.siderius@nist.gov
Area 2e (Adsorption & Ion Exchange) Vice Chair Armin Ebner ebnera@cec.sc.edu
Area 2f (Fluid-Particle Separations) Chair Jenifer Gomez Pastora jenifer.gomez@ttu.edu
Area 2f (Fluid-Particle Separations Vice Chair Seyi Odueyungbo seyiodu@hotmail.com
Area 2g (Bioseparations) Chair Cristiana Boi cristiana.boi@unibo.it

cboi@ncsu.edu
Area 2g (Bioseparations) Vice Chair TBD  
Area 2h (General Topics & Other Methods) Chair Stephen Ritchie sritchie@eng.ua.edu

Webmaster

Webmaster Stephen Thiel thiels@ucmail.uc.edu

Liaisons

CTOC Liaison Narayan Ramesh nramesh@dow.com
AIChE Staff Liaison Gina Gatto

Derek Ward
ginag@aiche.org

derew@aiche.org