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Faculty News
from Georgia Tech's ChBE 2021 Magazine
by School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech
Blair Brettmann
Won a 2020 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation. The CAREER Award is the NSF’s most prestigious award in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education, and the integration of education and research.
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Chris Jones
Winner of Georgia Tech’s 2021 Outstanding Achievement in Research Innovation.
Christian Cuba-Torres
Winner of the Teacher Excellence Award presented by the Women in Engineering (WIE) program at Georgia Tech.
Ryan Lively
Selected for the 2021 Van Ness Award from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The award is presented annually to honor a chemical engineer who has made seminal contributions to the profession.
Hang Lu
Honored as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. The Royal Society was established in 1841 and later chartered by Queen Victoria for the general advancement of chemical science.
Corey Wilson
Principal investigator of a new NSF award ($1,077,799) titled “Engineering Intelligent Chassis Cells.” The goal of this research is to engineer intelligent biological systems, with advanced security features.
Julie Champion
Recipient of a 2021 Rising Star Award from the American Chemical Society’s Women Chemists Committee. This award recognizes exceptional early- to mid-career women chemists across all areas of chemistry on a national level.
Yuhang Hu
Named the 2021 recipient of the Sia Nemat-Nasser Early Career Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
Fani Boukouvala
Elected as a Director for the Computing and Systems Technology Division of AIChE for years 2021-2023.
Matthew Realff
Elected as a fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) in recognition of his contributions to the chemical engineering field. A fellowship is the highest grade of membership in AIChE.
Lily Cheung
Won a $1.1 million Human Science Frontier Program (HSFP) award to investigate the interplay of cellular movement and metabolism in grass stomata – the microscopic breathing valves on plant leaves.
Michael Filler
Principal investigator of a team that won an NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) award ($519,700), which supports the acquisition of a fluidized bed vapor deposition reactor capable of applying precise nanoscale coatings to a range of materials.
David Sholl
Elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) “for seminal contributions in connecting atomic-scale modeling with practical applications in chemical separations, energy storage, and data reproducibility.
Saad Bhamla
Received a $200K grant from the Disability Impact Fund for clinical translation and evaluation of the lab’s $1 hearing aid prototypes, with partners in Malawi.
