Brian Grady

Brian Grady received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois in 1987, worked at Procter and Gamble for two years, and then attended graduate school and obtained a PhD from the University of Wisconsin in 1994, also in Chemical Engineering. Since 1994, he has been employed by the University of Oklahoma as a faculty member in the School of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering, being appointed to the position of Director in 2014. He currently holds the Douglas and Hilda Bourne Chair of Chemical Engineering. He serves as the Director of the Institute for Applied Surfactant Research at the University at Oklahoma, an industrial consortium with 10 corporate members. He served as the President of the Society of Plastics Engineers in 2018-2019 which is the largest organization for plastics professionals in the world with over 25,000 members worldwide. He was elected a Fellow of AICHE in 2021.