Co-Chairs
F. Fleming Crim, NAS, University of Wisconsin
Gary S. Calabrese, NAE, Corning, Inc.
Members
Benjamin Anderson, Lilly Research Laboratories
Henry E. Bryndza, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company
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
Mark A. Ratner, NAS, Northwestern University
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. 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. 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. 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. 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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