Our Team

Benny Freeman is the Richard B. Curran Centennial Chair in Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin.

Dr. Lynn Katz holds the Bettie Margaret Smith Professorship in Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin.

Rachel Segalman is the Edward Noble Kramer Professor and Department Chair of Chemical Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara.

Nate Lynd is an Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at Austin investigating novel solutions to technological challenges in energy, environment, and healthcare through the design and synthesis of new polymers.

Tom Truskett is the Les and Sherri Stuewer Endowed Professor and Department Chair in Chemical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin.

Mahdi Abu-Omar is Professor and Mellichamp Chair of Green Chemistry and Associate Director of the Center for Catalytic Conversion of Biomass to Biofuels (C3Bio) at the University of California Santa Barbara.

Chris Bates is an Assistant Professor of Materials at the University of California Santa Barbara leveraging a variety of synthetic and physical experimental techniques to design, create, and probe the structure and properties of soft matter.

Ethan Crumlin is a Staff Scientist and Program Lead for Ambient Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (APXPS) and Photon Science Operations at Berkeley Lab Advanced Light Source.

Michael Doherty is Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara.

Glenn Fredrickson is the Mitsubishi Chemical Professor in Chemical Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara.

Venkat Ganesan is Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.

Song-I Han is Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California Santa Barbara.

Craig J. Hawker is the Director of the California Nanosystems Institute, Dow Materials Institute and Facility Director of the Materials Research Lab at the University of California Santa Barbara.

Alex Hexemer is Senior Scientist and Computing Program Lead at Berkeley Lab Advanced Light Source.

Des Lawler is the Nassir I. Al-Rashid Chair in Civil Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin.

Mukul M. Sharma holds the “Tex” Moncrief Chair in the Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin.

Scott Shell is Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara. His group develops novel molecular simulation, multiscale modeling, and statistical thermodynamic approaches to address a variety problems in contemporary biophysics and soft condensed matter.

Todd Squires is Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara.

Michael Webber is the Deputy Director of the Energy Institute, Josey Centennial Fellow in Energy Resources, Co-Director of the Clean Energy Incubator at the Austin Technology Incubator, and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin.