Professional Experience

2004 - present, Member, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Developmental Cancer Therapeutics Program

1999 - 2004, Executive Officer of Chemical Engineering, Caltech

1993 - present, Warren & Katharine Schlinger Professor of Chemical Engineering, Caltech

1991 - 1993, Professor of Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology

1990 - 1991, Charles O. Gordon Professor of Chemical Engineering, Virginia Tech

1990, Visiting Professor, Stanford University

1989 - 1990, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Virginia Tech

1985 - 1989, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Virginia Tech

1981 - 1985, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

1976, (Summer) Research Associate, Monsanto Chemical Company

Education and Training

1981, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, Ph.D., Chemical Engineering

1978, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, M.S., Chemical Engineering

1977, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, B.S., Chemical Engineering


This is an abbreviated document. Full CV available upon request. Information on this page may be self-reported and is subject to change at any time. Last updated: 07/08.

Honors and Awards

2006, National Academy of Science

2005, ACS, E.V. Murphree Award

1999, AIChE, Professional Progress Award

1999, ACS, Langmuir Lecture

1997, National Academy of Engineering

1996, Catalysis Division of the Chemical Institute of Canada, Cross Canada Lecture Tour

1995, North American Catalysis Society, Paul H. Emmett Award

1992, ACS, Ipatieff Prize

1990, NSF, Alan T. Waterman Award (first engineer to win award)

1989, International Zeolite Association, Donald Breck Award for the Most Significant Contribution to Molecular Sieve Science, 1986-88

1989, AIChE, Allan P. Colburn Award

1989 - 1991, Union Carbide Innovation Recognition Award for Academic Achievements in Catalysis

1985, NSF, Presidential Young Investigator

1985, ASEE, Dow Outstanding Young Faculty