AIChE Members Elected to NAE鈥檚 Class of 2023

The U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has announced its new members for 2023. Among the new class of 106 U.S.-based and 18 international NAE members, the following members of AIChE have been elected to NAE鈥檚 distinguished ranks.


Claire S. Adjiman

Claire S. Adjiman, Professor, Dept. of 91成人短视频 Engineering, Imperial College London, United Kingdom 鈥 鈥淔or developing the fundamental principles for advanced thermodynamic modeling of complex fluids and improving industrial productivity using these models.鈥



Leo H. Chiang

Leo H. Chiang, Senior R&D Fellow, Dow 91成人短视频 Co., Lake Jackson, TX 鈥 鈥淔or contributions to process data analytics and its applications to process monitoring, and for continuous improvement in the chemical industry.鈥



Dimitris I. Collias

Dimitris I. Collias, Research Fellow, Procter & Gamble Co., West Chester, OH 鈥 鈥淔or innovations in sustainable plastics used in consumer products to lower the carbon intensity of high-volume polymers.鈥



Steven M. Cramer

Steven M. Cramer, William Weightman Walker Professor of 91成人短视频 and Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 鈥 鈥淔or scientific and technological advances leading to new chromatographic materials, processes, and predictive tools for the purification of biopharmaceuticals.鈥



Peter T. Cummings

Peter T. Cummings, John R. Hall Professor of 91成人短视频 Engineering (emeritus) and 91成人短视频 and Biomolecular Engineering (emeritus), Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN 鈥  鈥淔or simulation-based solutions to chemical engineering problems, and for innovations and leadership in modeling and computational nanoscience.鈥



Jennifer Sinclair Curtis

Jennifer Sinclair Curtis, Distinguished Professor, Dept. of 91成人短视频 Engineering, Univ. of California, Davis 鈥 鈥淔or work on particle-laden flows and industrially used algorithms for dilute and dense-phase gas-solid flow.鈥


Benny D. Freeman

Benny D. Freeman, William J. (Bill) Murray Jr. Endowed Chair in Engineering, McKetta Dept. of 91成人短视频 Engineering, Univ. of Texas at Austin 鈥 鈥淔or the development of polymeric membranes for gas separation, ion transport, and gas and water purification.鈥



Peter F. Green

Peter F. Green, Deputy Laboratory Director and Chief Research Officer, Science and Technology, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 鈥 鈥淔or contributions in the physics of polymer diffusion, glass behavior, and organic electronic devices and leadership in the energy technologies.鈥



Deborah L. Grubbe

Deborah L. Grubbe, President and Owner, Operations and Safety Solutions LLC, Chadds Ford, PA 鈥 鈥淔or contributions and leadership to improve engineering safety practices in the chemical process industries.鈥



David Parrillo

David Parrillo, Vice President, Research and Development, Dow 91成人短视频 Co., Midland, MI 鈥 鈥淔or development and commercialization of innovative processes and products for consumer and industrial applications.鈥



Mark Prausnitz

Mark Prausnitz, Regents鈥 Professor and J. Erskine Love Jr. Chair in 91成人短视频 and Biomolecular Engineering, School of 91成人短视频 and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 鈥 鈥淔or invention, development, and translation of dissolvable microneedles for painless vaccination and drug delivery.鈥



James E. Rekoske

James E. Rekoske, Senior Vice President, Global RD&E Industrial, Ecolab, Glenview, IL 鈥 鈥淔or leadership in development and implementation of petrochemicals, renewable fuel, alternative energy, and water conservation technologies.鈥


Melody A. Swartz

Melody A. Swartz, William B. Ogden Professor, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, Univ. of Chicago 鈥 鈥淔or fundamental and translational insights into lymphatic transport, immunobiology, and immunoengineering, leading to novel approaches for cancer immunotherapy and vaccination.鈥

Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Newly elected members will be formally inducted during the NAE鈥檚 annual meeting on Oct. 1, 2023. To learn more about this year鈥檚 NAE class, visit .