Co-Chairs
F. Fleming Crim, NAS, University of Wisconsin
Gary S. Calabrese, NAE, Corning, Inc.
Members
Benjamin Anderson, Lilly Research Laboratories
Zhenan Bao, Stanford University
Robert Bergman, NAS, University of California, Berkeley
Henry E. Bryndza, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company
Emily Carter, NAS, Princeton University
Pablo G. Debenedetti, NAE, Princeton University
Ryan R. Dirkx, Arkema, Inc.
Carol J. Henry, Independent Consultant
Rigoberto Hernandez, Georgia Institute of Technology
Charles E. Kolb, Aerodyne Research, Inc
Charles T. Kresge, NAE, Dow Chemical Company
Josef Michl, NAS, University of Colorado, Boulder
C. Dale Poulter, NAS, University of Utah
Mark A. Ratner, NAS, Northwestern University
Robert E. Roberts, Institute for Defense Analyses
Darlene J.S. Solomon, Agilent Technologies
Erik J. Sorensen, Princeton University
William C. Trogler, University of California, San Diego
Thomas H. Upton, ExxonMobil
Board Members Biographies
Dr. F. Fleming Crim
F. Fleming Crim is the John E. Willard and Hilldale Professor of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1974 and worked on semiconductor manufacturing techniques at the Engineering Research Center of Western Electric Co. until 1976. He then spent a year as a Director's post-doctoral staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory and moved to Madison as an assistant professor in 1977. He was Chair of the Department from 1995-98 and has served on a range of NRC panels. His research in chemical reaction dynamics uses lasers to explore and control the course of chemical reactions in both gases and liquids. He is a member of the NAS.
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Dr. Gary S. Calabrese
Gary S. Calabrese is the Vice President of Corning Inc. Prior to this position, he was Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Rohm and Haas Company and was the first director of Rohm and Haas Company's new Emerging Technologies Group in 2002, a department focused on uncovering step-out innovations and technology platforms for new products. He was appointed as vice president of Rohm and Haas and the company's chief technology officer in early 2003. Prior to his career at Rohm & Haas, Dr. Calabrese began his industrial career at Polaroid Corporation in 1983 as a research chemist. His interest in the high growth markets of electronics and semiconductors led him to the Shipley Company in 1989. In 1994, Dr. Calabrese was named Shipley's North American director of engineering, responsible for scaling up manufacturing processes for new products, customer technical support and plant engineering. He returned to research in 1997 as global director of R&D for the Microelectronics Materials business, and was named vice president and chief technology officer for Shipley two years later. Dr. Calabrese earned his bachelor of science in chemistry from Lehigh University, and his Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a member of the NAE.
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Dr. Benjamin Anderson
Benjamin Anderson serves as the Director for Chemical Product Research and Development at Lilly Research Laboratories. He has won many awards, including the Lilly Research Laboratories, Change the World Award (2001, 2002), Lilly Research Laboratories President's Recognition Award (1999), and the Presidential Green Chemistry Award (EPA), Alternate Synthetic Pathway (1999). He holds several patents and publications. He has also served as co-chair for the ACS Green Chemistry Institute Pharmaceuticals Roundtable (2005-2007). Dr. Anderson was an NIH postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, received his Ph.D. from University of Chicago and his B.A. from Wittenberg University.
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Dr. Zhenan Bao
Zhenan Bao received her Ph.D. degree in chemistry from The University of Chicago in 1995 and joined the Materials Research Department of Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, where she became a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in 2001. She joined the faculty of the Stanford Chemical Engineering Department in 2004.
In addition to her more than 100 refereed publications, she has filed more than 50 US patent applications with more than 30 of them awarded. She served as a member of Executive Board of Directors for the Materials Research Society and Executive Committee Member and Program Committee for the Polymer Materials Science and Engineering Divisions of the American Chemical Society. She is on the international advisory board for the journal of Advanced Functional Materials (2001-2005), Chemistry of Materials (2006-now) and Materials Today (2002-now).
She is a recipient of the American Chemical Society Team Innovation Award 2001, R&D 100 Award, and R&D Magazine's Editors Choice of the "Best of the Best" new technology for 2001. She has been selected in 2002 by the American Chemical Society Women Chemists Committee as one of the twelve "Outstanding Young Woman Scientist who is expected to make a substantial impact in chemistry during this century." She is also selected by MIT Technology Review magazine in 2003 as one of the top 100 young innovators for this century as well as the Sloan research fellow, 2006. In 2008, she was elected as a SPIE Fellow, and received the first Polymer International IUPAC award.
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Dr. Robert Bergman
Robert Bergman received his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin in l966 under the direction of Jerome A. Berson. He spent l966-67 as a postdoctoral fellow in Ronald Breslow's laboratories at Columbia, and following that joined the faculty of the California Institute of Technology. After ten years at Caltech he accepted a Professorship at the University of California, Berkeley, and a joint appointment at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; in 2002 he was appointed Gerald E.K. Branch Distinguished Professor at Berkeley. Among his honors are a Sloan Foundation Fellowship, a Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar Award, the American Chemical Society Award in Organometallic Chemistry, election to membership in the U. S. National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the U. S. Department of Energy E.O. Lawrence Award in Chemistry and the American Chemical Society Arthur C. Cope Award, and the Royal Society of Chemistry Sir Edward Frankland Prize Lectureship. Bergman has long been interested in exploratory and mechanistic studies in organic and organotransition metal chemistry. He is probably best known for his discovery of the thermal cyclization of cis-1,5-hexadiyne-3-enes to l,4-dehydrobenzene diradicals, a transformation that has been identified as a crucial DNA-cleaving reaction in several antibiotics that bind to nucleic acids, his discovery of the first soluble organometallic complexes that undergo intermolecular insertion of transition metals into the carbon-hydrogen bonds of alkanes, and his work on the synthesis and cycloaddition reactions of complexes with metal-heteroatom multiple bonds. His research has recently expanded to include application of carbon-hydrogen bond activation to problems in synthetic organic chemistry, nanovessel catalysis, and methods for the conversion of biomass to fuels and commodity chemicals.
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Dr. Henry E. Bryndza
Henry E. Bryndza is the technology director for chemical sciences and engineering in DuPont Central Research and Development. Dr. Bryndza joined DuPont in 1981 and has held a variety of technology, planning, marketing, and business roles. He received his S.B. in chemistry from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he conducted research in physical and synthetic organic chemistry with C. G. Swain and D. S. Kemp. He received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, where he did his thesis research on physical organometallic chemistry and catalysis with R. G. Bergman.
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Dr. Emily Carter
Emily Carter is a theorist first known for her work combining ab initio quantum chemistry with dynamics and kinetics, especially as applied to surface chemistry. More recently, she merged quantum mechanics, applied mathematics, and solid state physics in her linear scaling orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT) that now handles tens to hundreds of thousands of atoms quantum mechanically, her embedded configuration interaction (ECI) and ab initio DFT+U theories that combine quantum chemistry with periodic DFT to treat electronic excited states and strongly correlated materials, and her linear scaling multi-reference CI method for molecules. She also has constructed quantum-based multiscale simulations of the mechanical response of materials. For the last decade or so, her applications focus has been to determine how materials fail due to chemical and mechanical effects (e.g., corrosion and stress), and how to optimally protect these materials against failure (e.g., by doping, alloying, or coating). At present, she is turning her attention toward materials design for energy applications, including exploring novel materials for solar energy conversion to electricity and water splitting, metal alloy design for fusion reactor walls, and optimization of lightweight metal alloys to improve vehicle fuel efficiency.
Professor Carter received her B.S. degree in Chemistry from UC Berkeley in 1982 and her Ph.D. in Chemistry from Caltech in 1987. After working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Colorado, Boulder for a year, she spent the next 16 years on the faculty of UCLA as a Professor of Chemistry and later of Materials Science and Engineering. She moved to Princeton University in 2004 as Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Applied and Computational Mathematics. She also holds courtesy appointments in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, and two interdisciplinary institutes (PICSciE and PRISM). In 2006, she was named Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor. The author of over 200 publications, she has delivered over 350 invited lectures all over the world and serves on numerous advisory boards spanning a wide range of disciplines.
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Dr. Pablo G. Debenedetti
Pablo G. Debenedetti is the Class of 1950 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University's Chemical Engineering Department, which he chaired between 1996 and 2004. His research interests include the thermodynamics and statistical mechanics of water and aqueous solutions; hydrophobicity; protein thermodynamics; the stabilization of biomolecules in glassy matrices; glasses and supercooled liquids; nucleation theory; and the formation of novel materials with supercritical fluids. He obtained his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Buenos Aires University, Argentina, in 1978, and M.S. (1981) and Ph.D. (1985) degrees, also in Chemical Engineering, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
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Dr. Ryan R. Dirkx
Ryan R. Dirkx is Vice President of research and development, for Arkema Inc. He is responsible for all research and development (R&D) in North America and R&D coordination between the U.S. and France. Arkema research supports the company's businesses in Thiochemicals, Fluorochemicals and Hydrogen Peroxide, Functional Additives, Technical Polymers, and PMMA. A 20-year veteran of Arkema Inc. (formerly Atofina Chemicals), Dr. Dirkx was most recently worldwide director of research and development for PMMA (Altuglas International). Prior to that he directed R&D for businesses within the Technical Polymers and Performance Products divisions, as well as holding business and market management positions within the Specialty Chemicals division. Dr. Dirkx has a Ph.D. in Solid State Science from the Pennsylvania State University and a B.S. in Ceramic Engineering from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. He holds 13 patents, is a member of ACS, AIChE and is active within the Industrial Research Institute.
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Dr. Carol J. Henry
Carol J. Henry is an advisor and consultant to public and private organizations, focusing
on issues in toxicology and risk assessment, public and environmental health, and
domestic and international science and public policy. She retired as Vice President,
Industry Performance Programs at the American Chemistry Council (ACC) in November
2007. She is a member of the Federal Advisory Committee for the National Children's
Study, the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences,
Research, and Medicine; Environmental Health Perspectives Editorial Board, the
American College of Toxicology, of which she has been president; the Society of
Toxicology; the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is President-
Elect of the Chemical Society of Washington of the American Chemical Society and cochair
of the Cyprus International Institute for Public Health and Environment in
Association with the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Henry received her
undergraduate degree in chemistry from the University of Minnesota and doctorate in
microbiology from the University of Pittsburgh. She is a diplomate of the American
Board of Toxicology, certified in general toxicology.
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Dr. Rigoberto Hernandez
Rigoberto Hernadez is an associate professor of chemistry at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Hernandez received his B.S.E. from Princeton University in 1989 and his Ph.D. from University of California at Berkeley in 1993. He has served as the Goizueta Foundation Jr. Professor (2002-2007) and Blanchard Assistant Professor of Chemistry (1999-2001). He is an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow (2006), and has been recognized as an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (2000), a Research Corporation Cottrell Scholar (1999) and an NSF CAREER awardee (1997). His research involves the development of theoretical and computational tools to describe chemical reactions and processes in complex solvents. He was elected as fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2004.
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Dr. Charles E. Kolb
Charles E. Kolb, Jr. is the president and chief executive officer of Aerodyne Research,
Inc. He joined Aerodyne as a Senior Research Scientist in 1971. At Aerodyne, his
personal areas of research have included atmospheric and environmental chemistry,
combustion chemistry, chemical lasers, materials chemistry, and the chemical physics of
rocket and aircraft exhaust plumes. In the area of atmospheric and environmental
chemistry, Dr. Kolb initiated Aerodyne's programs for the identification and
quantification of sources and sinks of trace atmospheric gases and aerosols involved in
regional and global pollution problems, as well as the development of spectral sensing
techniques to quantify soil pollutants. He received a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from
Princeton University.
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Dr. Charles T. Kresge
Charles T. Kresge is the R&D vice president for the Basic Plastics & Chemicals Portfolio and Hydrocarbons & Energy R&D at The Dow Chemical Company. Before joining Dow, Kresge was a senior member of the technical leadership of the Mobil Oil Corporation. In April 1999, Kresge joined Dow to lead catalysis research in Corporate R&D. He became Global R&D Director of Chemical Sciences in 2000 and head of Research and Engineering Sciences in 2005. Kresge holds a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Swarthmore College and a doctorate in physical chemistry from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Dr. Josef Michl
Josef Michl received his M.S. in Chemistry in 1961 from Charles University, Prague and his Ph.D. (1965) from the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. He became a full professor at the University of Utah and served as chairman from 1979-1984. From 1986-1990 he held the M. K. Collie-Welch Regents Chair in Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin and subsequently moved to the University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, where he is presently Professor of Chemistry. He has also held an appointment at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of Czech Academy of Sciences since 2006. The primary emphasis in his current research is centered around the use of a molecular-size construction set for the assembly and characterization of surface mounted molecular rotors, novel concepts in solar energy conversion, new structures and reactive intermediates in the chemistry of boron, silicon, and fluorine, catalysis with "naked" lithium cations, and the use of quantum chemical and experimental methods for better understanding of excited electronic states of saturated molecules.
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Dr. C. Dale Poulter
Dale Poulter is currently a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of Utah, where he focuses his research on the interface between chemistry and biology. His current work studies enzymes in the isoprenoid biosynthetic pathway and the pathways that catalyze activation and bond-forming reactions. He received is PhD degree in 1967 in organic photochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley under the direction of W.G. Dauben and moved to the University of Utah in 1969 after two years as a NIH Postdoctoral Fellow with S. Winstein. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Dr. Poulter is the author of countless papers and the recipient of many awards, among them the James Flack Norris Award and the Repligen Award from the American Chemical Society, the Rosenblatt Prize from the University of Utah, the NIH Merit Award, and the Governor's Medal for Science and Technology. Dr. Poulter also serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Organic Chemistry, and has been on the editorial advisory boards of Chemical Reviews, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, and the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Not merely a sought-after lecturer and academician, Dr. Poulter was also a founding scientist of Acacia Biosciences, Inc., and Echelon Biosciences, Inc., both drug discovery companies.
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Dr. Mark A. Ratner
Mark A. Ratner is the Charles and Emma Morrison Professor of Chemistry and
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University. He is
interested in structure and function at the nanoscale, and the theory of fundamental
chemical processes. He tries to bring together structure and function in molecular
nanostructures, based on theoretical notions, on exemplary calculations, and (very
importantly) on collaborations with experimentalists and other theorists, in the US and
around the world. Some areas of interest are molecular electronics, electron transfer, selfassembly,
nonlinear optical response in molecules, and theories of quantum dynamics. In
the interstices, he spends as much time trout fishing as he possibly can. He graduated
from Harvard University in 1964 with an undergraduate degree in chemistry. He obtained
his Ph.D. in chemistry from Northwestern University working with G. Ludwig Hofacker,
did postdoctoral work in Aarhus and Munich with Jan Linderberg, and taught chemistry
at New York University from 1970 until 1974. Later he served as a visiting professor
with the National Sciences Research Council at Odense University. He served as
department chair at Northwestern University from 1988 until 1991 and as associate dean
of the College of Arts and Sciences from 1980 until 1984. He was nominated to the
National Academy of Sciences in 2002. He is a member of the International Academy of
Quantum Molecular Science.
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Dr. Robert E. Roberts
Robert Roberts is the Director of the Science and Technology Policy Institute and Chief Scientist at the Institute for Defense Analyses. He is the former Vice President for Research and Director of IDA's Science and Technology Division. Before joining IDA, he spent several years with the Department of Energy, and prior to that, he was associate professor of chemistry at Indiana University. Dr. Roberts is founder, former director, and mentor for the IDA Defense Science Study Group, a program established to foster interest in national security issues among outstanding young professors of science and engineering. Dr. Roberts received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon), his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Wisconsin, and was a National Science Foundation postdoctoral research fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Dr. Darlene J.S. Solomon
Darlene J.S. Solomon is Agilent's Chief Technology Officer. Her responsibilities include developing the company's long-term technology strategy and overseeing the alignment of Agilent's objectives with its centralized research-and-development activities.
Solomon brings extensive experience in R&D and management to her current leadership role at Agilent. She joined Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in 1984 as a member of the technical staff, subsequently holding a variety of research and management positions there, including R&D manager for the Chemical and Biological Systems Department. She joined Agilent Technologies when the company was formed in 1999. Prior to being named to her current post, Solomon was Vice President and Director of Agilent Laboratories, which was preceeded by her dual role of director of the Life Sciences Technologies Laboratory within Agilent Labs, as well as senior director, research and development/technology, for Agilent's Life Sciences and Chemical Analysis business.
Solomon received her bachelor's degree in chemistry from Stanford University, a doctorate in bioinorganic chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and completed Stanford University's Executive Development Program. With numerous patents and publications to her name, Solomon was inducted into the Women in Technology International's Hall of Fame in 2001, received the YWCA Tribute to Women and Industry Award in 2004, and named to Diversity Journal's Women Worth Watching in 2007 and to Corporate Board Member's 50 Top Women in Technology in 2008.
Solomon serves on multiple academic and government advisory and review boards, including the National Research Council Review Committee for the National Institute of Standards and Technology, California's Blue Ribbon Task Force on Nanotechnology (chair of R&D), NSF/NIST/NIBIB's Committee to Sustain America's Competitive Edge, and external advisory boards for the National Science Foundation Nanobiotechnology Center, A-STAR Board for Singapore Economic Development, Stanford University Interdisciplinary Biosciences Advisory Coucil and the US Army Science Board.
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Dr. Erik J. Sorensen
Erik J. Sorensen is the Arthur Allan Patchett Professor in Organic Chemistry at
Princeton University. He received his B. A. degree in Chemistry from Syracuse
University, where he performed undergraduate research with Professor Roger Hahn. In
1989, he began his graduate studies in chemical synthesis at The University of California,
San Diego. Under the direction of Professor K. C. Nicolaou, he synthesized a novel
family of DNA cleaving, 10-membered ring enediynes, contributed to a laboratory
synthesis of the cancer drug Taxol? co-authored a book titled Classics in Total Synthesis,
and obtained his Ph. D. degree in 1995. From 1995-1997, he was a National Science
Foundation postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Professor Samuel Danishefsky at The
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, where he contributed to total
syntheses of the epothilone class of antitumor agents. In 1997, he started his independent
career at The Scripps Research Institute and became an Associate Professor with tenure
in 2001. In 2003, he moved his research group to Princeton University where he is the
Arthur Allan Patchett Professor in Organic Chemistry.
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Dr. William C. Trogler
William C. Trogler is Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, San Diego.
His current research focuses on inorganic chemistry applied to problems of
environmental and technological interest. Dr. Trogler’s research group is exploring the
use of photoluminescent and electroluminescent silole polymers as sensors for detecting
electron deficient organics, the design of sensors specific for the fluorophosphonate G
nerve agents, micellar catalysts incorporated into a porous silicon sensor to detect Sarin,
and chemoresponsive transistors as manufacturable chemical sensors. He received his
B.A., M.A. from Johns Hopkins University in 1974 and his Ph.D. from the California
Institute of Technology in 1977.
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Dr. Thomas H. Upton
Thomas H. Upton currently serves as Research Manager for ExxonMobil Chemical Company. In his current assignment he is responsible for new technology development for all Chemical Company businesses. Prior to this position, Dr. Upton has served in a variety of Technology Management positions including Fuel Products Development Manager, Downstream Research Laboratory Director, and Polymers Technology Planning Manager. .He joined Exxon Research and Engineering Company in 1980 where he was a member of the technical staff and a leader of theory and modeling activities in the Corporate Research Sciences Laboratory until 1990. He obtained a B.S. Degree in Chemistry from Stanford University in 1974, and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Chemistry from California Institute of Technology in 1980.
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