Co-Chairs
F. Fleming Crim, NAS, University of Wisconsin
Gary S. Calabrese, NAE, Corning, Inc.
Members
Benjamin Anderson, Lilly Research Laboratories
Pablo G. Debenedetti, NAE, Princeton University
Ryan R. Dirkx, Arkema, Inc.
George W. Flynn, NAS, Columbia University
Mauricio Futran, NAE, Bristol-Meyers Squibb Company
Mary Galvin-Donoghue, Air Products and Chemical Materials Research Center
Paula T. Hammond, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rigoberto Hernandez, Georgia Institute of Technology
Jay D. Keasling, University of California, Berkeley
James L. Kinsey, NAS, Rice University
Martha A. Krebs, Science Strategies
Charles T. Kresge, NAE, Dow Chemical Company
Joseph A. Miller, NAE, Corning, Inc.
Scott J. Miller, Yale University
Gerald Poje, Independent Consultant
Donald Prosnitz, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
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. 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. George W. Flynn
George W. Flynn is the director of the Environmental Molecular Sciences Institute, and a Higgins Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University. Dr. Flynn is a physical chemist, using spectroscopic techniques to perform dynamic studies of changes in molecular quantum states. He has served on the NRC's Panel for Physics and Subpanel for JILA, which review programs at NIST. Dr. Flynn is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Dr. Mauricio Futran
Dr. Futran is Vice President for Process Research and Development at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. He is recognized for his work in process development for small molecule active pharmaceutical ingredients. This process engineering background is desirable to maintain sufficient BCST expertise in this core area of chemical engineering. Dr. Futran is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
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Dr. Mary Galvin-Donoghue
Mary Galvin-Donoghue joined Air Products and Chemicals Corporation in 2005 as the corporations' Senior Associate for Materials and Polymer Science. As a senior associate, Dr. Galvin-Donoghue is accountable to identify trends in materials and polymer science and institute programs in these disciplines to address new advances and meet the business technology needs for growth at Air Products. Prior to joining Air Products Dr. Galvin was a Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Delaware. Dr. Galvin-Donoghue received M.S. and Sc.D. degrees in Polymer Science from the Materials Science Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Dr. Paula T. Hammond
Paula T. Hammond is the Bayer Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research and educational program emphasizes the use of molecular aspects in the study and development of new materials and processes. Her general areas of interest include electrical and optical properties of polymers, biomaterials, and nano to microscale fabrication using directed and self-assembly of polymers. Her research program on self-assembling polymeric systems and directed assembly and patterning includes ultrathin patterned polymer films, liquid crystalline polymers and block copolymers. More recent applications investigated in her group include ultrathin film systems for microbatteries and fuel cells, drug delivery and cellular templates for biomaterials.
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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. Jay D. Keasling
Jay D. Keasling is a professor of chemical engineering at University of California, Berkeley. He is also the director for the Physical Sciences Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He was a blue-green lecturer for University of Michigan in 2005, Inaugural Schwartz Lecturer for Johns Hopkins University in 2003, and Allan P. Colburn Memorial Lecturer in 2002. Dr. Keasling became an elected fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering in 2000. Dr. Keasling has received the AIChE Award for Chemical Engineering Excellence in Academic Teaching (1999), the NSF CAREER award (1995), the Zeneca Young Faculty Fellowship (1992-1997), and the NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship (1991-1992). In 2006, Dr. Keasling was chosen by Discover Magazine as the 2006 Scientist of the Year. Dr. Keasling received his PhD and M.S. from the University of Michigan and his B.S. from the University of Nebraska.
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Dr. James L. Kinsey
Dr. Kinsey is the Bullard-Welch Professor of Science, Rice University. Kinsey is a spectroscopist focusing on photoemission during dissociative events. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Dr. Martha A. Krebs
Dr. Krebs is President of Science Strategies, a consulting firm that works with academic and private organizations to identify and address critical issues and opportunities in S&T that will affect their R&D and business activities. Prior to this, she was an Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and founding Institute Director of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), where she was responsible for establishing the initial leadership, strategic direction and administration of the Institute. Dr. Krebs has also served as Director and Assistant Secretary of the Office for Science for the Department of Energy from 1993-2000. She received her Bachelor's degree and Ph.D. in Physics from the Catholic University of America. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Fellow of the Association of Women in Science.
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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. Joseph A. Miller
Joseph A. Miller, NAE has been Executive Vice President for Corning, Inc, since 2001. Before joining Corning, he served as Senior Vice President of E.I. DuPont de Nemours from 1999 to 2001. Dr. Miller also serves on the board of Avanex Corporation and on the audit and compensation committees of that board and the board of Dow Corning Corporation and the corporate responsibility committee of that board.
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Dr. Scott J. Miller
Scott J. Miller is Professor of Chemistry at Yale University. His research focuses on the discovery of new catalysts and reactions that enable the selective synthesis of complex, biologically active molecules. He received his B.S. from Harvard University in 1989 and a PhD from Harvard in 1994.
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Dr. Gerald Poje
Gerald V. Poje has served as a Board Member of the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board since its inception in November 1997 to November 2005. He also has been the Board's Executive/Administrator responsible for personnel administration, conduct of work, and representing the CSB before the Congress and the Executive Branch. Prior to joining the Board, Poje directed international programs and public health for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, focusing on issues of disease prevention, health promotion and environmental justice. He also served on U.S. delegations to intergovernmental meetings on chemical safety and promoted the development of international information networks to enhance global understanding of chemical hazards and their risks. He received his Ph.D. from New York University and served on the faculty at Miami University of Ohio. He has been a senior scientist for the National Wildlife Federation, and as vice president for Research at Green Seal. Poje has testified before Congress advocating improvements to public health and worker protection and safety, pollution prevention policy, Clean Air policy and regulations, chemical accident prevention, and Y2K and chemical safety policies.
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Dr. Donald Prosnitz
Donald Prosnitz is the Deputy Director of Strategic Plans for Homeland Security at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). His responsibilities include guiding strategy for comprehensive solutions; integrating threat, vulnerability, and tradeoff analyses; and advanced technologies' field-demonstrated prototypes and operational capabilities to assist federal, state, local, and private entities in defending against catastrophic terrorism. His previous positions at LLNL have included Chief Scientist for Nonproliferation, Arms Control, and International Security, and he has provided technical support for DOE's Chemical and Biological National Security Program. In 1999, he became the first Chief Science and Technology Advisor for the Department of Justice, a position he held until 2003.
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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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