AIChE Members Elected to NAE’s 2024 Class

Shailendra V. Bordawekar, Vice President, Small Molecule Chemistry, Manufacturing and Controls Development, AbbVie Inc. (Gurnee, IL) — “For leadership in the pharmaceutical industry, developing life-saving medicines, influencing regulations, and advocating for women in engineering.”

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Jingguang Chen, Thayer Lindsley Professor of Chemical Engineering, Columbia Univ. (New York, NY) — “For discovering new catalysts and synchrotron techniques to connect catalytic and electrocatalytic mechanisms under reaction conditions.”

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Chunqing Liu, Research and Development Senior Fellow and Senior Manager, Green H₂ Growth Vector Group, Honeywell (Des Plaines, IL) — “For polymer and membrane innovations for cost-effective natural gas and green hydrogen production and use.”

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Umit S. Ozkan, Distinguished University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Engineering, William G. Lowrie Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio State Univ. (Columbus, OH) — “For research in electrocatalysis and elucidation of mechanisms of oxidation catalysis.”

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Constantinos Pantelides, Managing Director, Process Systems Enterprise Ltd. (London, UK) — “For process modeling and optimization and for pioneering modeling software.”

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Robert K. Prud’homme, Professor Emeritus of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton Univ. (Princeton, NJ) — “For mass manufacture of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines and other applications to improve human health.” Photo by David Kelly Crow.

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David S. Sholl, Director, Transformational Decarbonization Initiative, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Oak Ridge, TN) — “For addressing large-scale chemical separation challenges, including carbon dioxide capture, using quantitative materials modeling.”

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Jose E. Tabora, Senior Scientific Director, Chemical Process Development, Bristol Myers Squibb (Princeton, NJ) — “For pharmaceutical process development through innovations in modeling, design of experiments, and data analysis.”

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Cristina Urdaneta Thomas, 3M Global Research and Development Services Leader (retired), 3M Company (Stillwater, MN) — “For innovation, commercialization, and leadership in using polymeric materials for energy savings and traffic safety, and to ensure worker well-being.”

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Hye Kyung Timken, Principal Scientist and Chevron Fellow, Chevron Technical Center (Richmond, CA) — “For environmentally friendly processes for producing hydrocarbon fuels.”

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