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Professor of PracticeFall 2024 Brenton S. Halsey Distinguished Visiting ProfessorFall 2023 Brenton S. Halsey Distinguished Visiting Professor
For the past 35+ years, Blair has been a pharmaceutical manufacturing, quality, and development executive where he has had the opportunity to work globally and drive twelve new chemical/biological and biosimilar products through development and into sustained commercial production.
Chris is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering. He completed his B.S. and Ph.D in Chemical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame.
Phillip A. Taylor is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering. After obtaining his B.S.E. and M.S.E. in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, he completed a Ph.D. in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of…
Professor of Practice - Chemical Process Safety2019 Brenton S. Halsey Distinguished Visiting Professor
Ron Unnerstall retired from BP in 2017 following a varied career in the Oil and Gas Industry spanning over 34 years. His career was predominately in Refining and Marketing, including 24 years in oil refineries across four locations, and other executive assignments in Chicago, London…
Nick Vecchiarello received his B.S. is Chemical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and his Ph.D. in Chemical and Biological Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He then worked as a late-stage purification scientist at Amgen in Cambridge Massachusetts…
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering (by courtesy) Associate Professor of Chemistry
The Zhu Group's research aims to develop new synthetic strategies for well-defined nanocrystals and 2-dimensional (2D) materials with atomically precise surfaces and interfaces that can lead to a fundamental understanding of how atomic structure affects catalyst performance and to use…
