Sigrid Adriaenssens’s research interest lies in the mechanical interaction between flexible, semiflexible and rigid surface systems and static and dynamic loading and the advancement of shape generation approaches based on analytical formulations, numerical form finding, optimization, fluid/structure interaction models and machine-learning techniques. This research has focused on the optimization of the design and behavior of membranes, compliant and rigid shells (both continuous and lattice) subjected to earthquake, storm surge and environmental loading, and more recently robotic construction constraints. She received the 2018 George Winter Award (American Society of Civil Engineers) and chairs the ASCE Esthetics in Design Committee as well as the Concrete Shell Roofs Working Group (International Association of Shell and Spatial Structures). She directs the Form Finding Lab at Princeton University and teaches classes on (non-)linear mechanics of solids and slender structures, structural design and the integration of engineering and the arts. 

Buse Aktas, from Edirne, Turkey, is a graduate student in mechanical engineering and material science at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. She is a part of the Harvard Biorobotics Lab, working on developing, modeling and analyzing smart tunable structures for use in soft robots. Her research has mostly focused on jamming-based variable stiffness structures. She is also doing a secondary field in Critical Media Practice, in which she is using live performance, installation, sculpture and social practice, as forms to develop affective understandings of how we engage with, design and develop new structures. She’s a fellow at the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, focusing on transdisciplinary teaching and learning practices, critical pedagogies and educational research. Before Harvard, she earned her BSE from Princeton University’s Mechanical Engineering and Visual Arts Departments. She also got an MA from Kadir Has University with a thesis on teaching and learning in the context of traditional craft apprenticeships, for which she completed fieldwork in different craft communities around Turkey. 

Craig B. Arnold is the Susan Dod Brown Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University and the director of the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials.  His research ranges from basic science to applied technology aimed at developing a deeper understanding of fundamental materials synthesis and processing with interests in energy storage systems, laser materials processing and advanced optics.  He earned his PhD in condensed-matter physics from Harvard University, and was an NRC post-doctoral fellow prior to joining the faculty at Princeton in 2003.  He has earned numerous accolades for his work in materials processing including the Edison Patent Award, an R&D 100 award, the Laser Focus World-OSA technology innovation award, and the SPIE PRISM award for photonics innovation.  Prof. Arnold is a fellow of OSA and SPIE.
 

Susan grew up in South Africa during apartheid and through the peaceful transition to democracy.  She left med school for architecture school and Johannesburg for life in Los Angeles by way of Paris and post-professional study at Princeton. As well as practicing architecture independently, after having worked as a designer for Frank Gehry, Susan creates sculptural jewelry through combining high-tech 3D printing with age-old investment casting methods. She shares her love of design and manufacturing with her students at Otis College of Art and Design.  

Susan has worked on local and international projects and proposals of many scales and budgets, including single family homes, an iconic residential tower, game lodges, offices and retail, theatres, a national art gallery, historic train stations, public landscape work, and surprisingly, an aquarium.  Because the evolution of technology is always offering new and beautiful ways to work with materials and vice versa, exploration of this has formed a critical part of Susan’s design process.  Her kinesthetic sensibility and delight in the nuanced line structure in natural forms permeate her work, most noticeably through the sense of movement in her jewelry.  SuBeningfield.com

Malcolm S. Carroll worked on simulation and measurements of phonon imaging with Prof. J. Wolfe at the University of Illinois as an undergraduate. He completed a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering Physics from the University of Illinois. From 1994 to 1995 he was a Fulbright fellow at the Johannes-Guttenberg University of Mainz, Germany, working on Monte-Carlo simulation of spin phase transitions. In 2001 he received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University working for Prof. J. C. Sturm. The thesis work was on scaling of SiGeC heterojunction nanostructures through engineering of point defects. He joined the semiconductor division of Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies at Murray Hill, NJ, which subsequently became Agere Systems in 2002. Part of this research resulted in a patent on epitaxial integration of germanium detectors with CMOS electronics, which was later used for a start-up company called Noble Peak Vision. He worked at Sandia National Laboratories until 2018 as a distinguished member of the technical staff acting as the technical director for the silicon quantum computing program. This included contributions in MOS quantum dots and qubits defined by spin-orbit or single donors. He subsequently worked as a research staff member at IBM Quantum from 2019-2020 on coherence in multi-qubit devices and he is presently a managing principal research physicist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. His present research interests center on multi-qubit superconducting and semiconducting devices and their fabrication for quantum computing. Dr. Carroll has been a first-or co-author on over 100 peer reviewed articles and 8 patents with greater than 2400 citations. He has co-advised 8 graduate students from multiple universities and is an adjunct professor at the University of New Mexico and Sherbrooke University. He has co-founded several continuing international conference series in quantum computing and he has served as an external advisor in a number of different national and international capacities.

Paul J. Chirik is the Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Chemistry, is a synthetic chemist with broad in-terests in catalysis and sustainability and interpretation of science for the public. Chirik earned his B.S. in chemistry at Virginia Tech (1995), followed by his Ph. D. at Caltech (2000) under the guidance of John Bercaw. Following a brief post-doctoral appointment with Christopher Cummins at MIT, Chirik began his independent career at Cornell in 2001. In 2009, he was named the Peter J. W. De-bye Professor of Chemistry and 2011 relocated to Princeton University. His research group focuses on chemical reactions that reduce carbon footprint and rely on Earth-abundant elements rather than exotic ones. Applications range from new materials to pharmaceuticals to chemically recyclable plastics. An author of over 220 peer-reviewed publications and inventor on 20 patents, his work has been recognized with a Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering, a Ca-mille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award, the Presidential Green Chemistry Award, the 2019 Eni Environmental Solutions Prize, the 2020 Rylander Award in Catalysis presented by BASF and the 2021 Gabor Samorjai Award for Creative Research in Catalysis. He currently serves as the Edi-tor-in-Chief of the American Chemical Society journal Organometallics. 

Suzanne M. D'Addio is a Director at Merck & Co., Inc. in West Point, PA where she leads a team that supports Discovery programs by leading pharmaceutical developability assessments, contributing to the optimization of physicochemical properties of small molecule, oligonucleotide and large molecule drug candidates, and supporting pre-clinical in vivo studies through a variety of drug delivery techniques.  In prior roles, she has had responsibility for leading the development of novel sterile drug products, including the formulation definition and process development for manufacturing and technology transfer in early development. Before joining Merck, she conducted post-doctoral research and doctoral research at the University of Queensland and Princeton University, respectively, during which time she was awarded research grants from the Australian Academy of Science and Department of Education, Employment and Workplace, the US National Science Foundation, and Merck & Co, Inc. 

Sujit Datta is an Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University. He earned a BA in Mathematics and Physics and an MS in Physics in 2008 from the University of Pennsylvania. He earned his PhD in Physics in 2013 from Harvard, where he studied fluid dynamics and instabilities in porous media and colloidal microcapsules with David Weitz. His postdoctoral training was in Chemical Engineering at Caltech, where he studied the biophysics of the gut with Rustem Ismagilov. He joined Princeton in 2017, where his lab studies soft and living materials in complex settings, motivated by challenges like water remediation, carbon sequestration, and targeted drug delivery. Prof. Datta is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, AIChE 35 Under 35 Award, ACS Unilever Award, APS Andreas Acrivos Award in Fluid Dynamics, APS LeRoy Apker Award, ACS Petroleum Research Fund New Investigator Award, and multiple Commendations for Outstanding Teaching.

Emily Davidson joined Princeton University as an Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering in January 2021. Her Princeton research focuses on the study and development of functional polymeric materials including responsive shape morphing elastomers, and the role of processing via additive manufacturing on locally programming the mesostructure, alignment, and integration of these materials. She carried out her postdoctoral research at UC Berkeley (Ph.D. 2016) and UC Santa Barbara with Professor Rachel Segalman, where she synthesized and studied (1) conjugated block copolymers to probe the interplay between crystallization and self-assembly and (2) sequence-defined block copolymers to gain insights into the role of secondary chain shape in block copolymer self-assembly. In 2017, Emily joined Professor Jennifer Lewis's group at Harvard University as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, where her research focused on the development and 3D assembly of liquid crystal elastomers with light-activated dynamic bonds. Emily received her bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010. From 2010-2012, Emily taught high school chemistry and physics through the Teach for America program. 

Pablo G. Debenedetti is the Class of 1950 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Dean for Research at Princeton University.  He served as vice dean of Princeton’s School of Engineering and Applied Science from 2008 to 2013 and chair of the chemical engineering department between 1996 and 2004.  He obtained his B.S. degree in chemical engineering from Buenos Aires University, Argentina (1978), and his M.S. (1981) and Ph.D. (1985) degrees, also in chemical engineering, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  He joined the faculty of Princeton University in 1985. 

Pablo Debenedetti uses state-of-the-art theoretical and computational tools to study the properties of water and aqueous systems, and their applications in areas ranging from the long-term preservation of biomolecules and pharmaceutical compounds to water desalination. His interests span the thermodynamics and statistical mechanics of liquids and glasses, as well as explorations of water and aqueous solutions, protein thermodynamics, nucleation, metastability, and the origin of homochirality in biological systems.  Using theoretical and computational methods rooted in statistical mechanics and thermodynamics, Debenedetti and his students have provided key insights into the physical properties of cold liquid water (supercooled water), which is found in large quantities in high-altitude clouds.  His team has also computed the phase diagram and evaporation kinetics of water confined by nano-scale hydrophobic surfaces, which are important in understanding the mechanisms of biological self-assembly, and provided powerful insights into the molecular mechanisms underlying the extraordinary slowing down of dynamic processes in liquids close to their glass transition. Debenedetti's research group is applying free energy techniques to compute the phase behavior of molecular models of water, including transitions between distinct forms of liquid water at deeply supercooled conditions.  Other areas of current interest in his research group include anti-freeze proteins, the relationship between chirality and folding of biomolecules, and the stability of proteins at high pressures and low temperatures. 

Pablo Debenedetti is the author of one book, Metastable Liquids, and more than 300 scientific articles. His professional honors include the Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation (1987); the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award from the Dreyfus Foundation (1989); a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (1991); the Professional Progress (1997), Walker (2008), Institute Lecturer (2013) and Alpha Chi Sigma (2019) awards from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers; the John M. Prausnitz Award in Applied Chemical Thermodynamics (2001); the Joel Henry Hildebrand Award in the Theoretical and Experimental Chemistry of Liquids from the American Chemical Society (2008); and the Guggenheim Medal from the Institution of Chemical Engineers (2017).  He received the Distinguished Teacher Award from Princeton’s School of Engineering (2008) and the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching (2008), Princeton’s highest distinction for teaching.  In 2008, Dean Debenedetti was named one of 100 Chemical Engineers of the Modern Era by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.  He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Physical Society. 

Bart J.C. Devolder received his M.A. in painting conservation from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium, in 2002. He held internships at the Akademia Sztuk Pieknych, Krakow, Poland, the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA), Brussels, and the Musée du Louvre, Paris. Bart also received a fellowship from the Straus Center for Conservation at the Harvard University Art Museums (2003–4) and was the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Painting Conservation at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (2004–7). 

Bart has worked for the Kimbell Art Museum and Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas, first as assistant conservator of paintings (2007–10) and later as associate conservator of paintings (2010–12). Before joining the Princeton University Art Museum as conservator of collections in the summer of 2018, he was the on-site coordinator and painting conservator for the restoration of the Ghent Altarpiece by the brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyck (2012–18). 

Bart has studied, published, and lectured on a wide variety of topics, ranging from Fayum portraits, Early Netherlandish canvas paintings, and the representation of gold brocades in Netherlandish paintings to the methods and techniques of Cubist paintings. He is also particularly interested in the newer applications of computer sciences to the field of studying old master paintings. 

Bart likes to use an understanding of the ways artworks are created as a catalyst to interact with people and students from different backgrounds and disciplines. 

Nikita Dutta is a fifth-year Ph.D. student in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, pursuing the joint degree in materials science through PRISM. Her research centers on characterizing structure and structure-property relationships in solution-processed materials for optoelectronics. Outside of the lab, Nikita enjoys working with the Education and Outreach Office of the Princeton Center for Complex Materials to share materials science with younger students. 

Dr. Prasenjeet Ghosh is currently the Global Process Research and Scale up Director at ExxonMobil (Clinton, New Jersey) where he leads a technology organization of ~80 scientists/engineers to develop and commercialize novel materials and processes to address the “dual challenge” – i.e. provide scalable, global access to energy at low cost, and low carbon footprint.

Prasenjeet joined the company in 2002 as a PhD engineer at Exxon Research and Engineering in Clinton, New Jersey.  Over his career, he has progressed through a variety of roles spanning in research and development, operations, strategic planning, oil trading, marketing, business development, and commercial leadership roles at company locations in Paulsboro and Clinton, New Jersey; Baytown and Houston, Texas; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and Fairfax, Virginia.

Prasenjeet spent the first 10 years in various R&D roles in New Jersey and Louisiana focusing on developing new refining and chemical processes and catalysts. In 2012, he became the Strategy and Planning Advisor supporting the President of ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company in Fairfax, VA. In 2013, he became the Senior Energy and Commercial Markets Advisor overseeing the North America markets supporting the Oil and Gas Supply and Trading organization.

In 2015, he relocated to Houston, TX to lead ExxonMobil’s Global Adhesions Business as a Commercial Business Development and Product Manager. In 2018, he was appointed as the Global Director for Chemicals Research in Baytown, TX responsible for developing new chemical processes and products for the ExxonMobil Chemical Company.  Following a short stint as the Technology Strategy Planning Executive in 2019, he assumed his current position as the Global Process Research Director in 2020.

Prasenjeet holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University and a MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Barry received his Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Marketing from Ithaca College paired with a Master of Science (M.S.) in Food Science from The Pennsylvania State University. His thesis work focused on Differentiating the Flavor Potential of Cocoa Beans by Geographic Origin. 

Barry began his professional career at Pfizer in Groton, CT as a Confectionery Technologist in 1995. At Pfizer, he worked on novel ingredients that imparted health and wellness benefits to confectionery products. In 1997, Barry joined Mars in Elizabethtown, PA as a Sr. Chocolate Product Scientist. In this role, Barry learned the nuances of industrial chocolate manufacturing, ingredient impact on process, and the relationship between formulation and physical properties. During his 24 years of increased responsibilities, he provided 7 years of leadership as the Global Director for Chocolate Technology and most recently became a Senior Fellow for Chocolate as part of the Science & Technology Product Discovery & Application team. 

Andrea Goldsmith is the Dean of Engineering and Applied Science and the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. She was previously the Stephen Harris Professor of Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, where she is now Harris Professor Emerita. Her research interests are in information theory, communication theory, and signal processing, and their application to wireless communications, interconnected systems, and neuroscience. She founded and served as Chief Technical Officer of Plume WiFi (formerly Accelera, Inc.) and of Quantenna (QTNA), Inc, and she currently serves on the Board of Directors for Medtronic (MDT) and Crown Castle Inc (CCI). Dr. Goldsmith is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a Fellow of the IEEE and of Stanford, and has received several awards for her work, including the Marconi Prize, the IEEE Sumner Technical Field Award, the ACM Athena Lecturer Award, the ComSoc Armstrong Technical Achievement Award, the Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award, the WICE Mentoring Award, and the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal’s Women of Influence Award. She is author of the book ``Wireless Communications'' and co-author of the books ``MIMO Wireless Communications'' and “Principles of Cognitive Radio,” all published by Cambridge University Press, as well as an inventor on 29 patents. She received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from U.C. Berkeley. 

Dr. Goldsmith is currently the founding Chair of the IEEE Board of Directors Committee on Diversity, Inclusion, and Ethics. She served as President of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 2009, as founding Chair of its Student Committee, and as founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Information Theory. She has also served on the Board of Governors for both the IEEE Information Theory and Communications Societies. At Stanford she has served as Chair of Stanford’s Faculty Senate and for multiple terms as a Senator, and on its Academic Council Advisory Board, Budget Group, Committee on Research, Planning and Policy Board, Commissions on Graduate and on Undergraduate Education, Faculty Women’s Forum Steering Committee, and Task Force on Women and Leadership. 

Adam is an entrepreneur and scientist focused on the commercialization of breakthrough technologies in the physical sciences and novel materials. He is a founder of and for the past 7 years has served as CEO of Uniformity Labs, a rapidly growing additive manufacturing materials, software, and printing company born out of IP conceived and developed by himself and Princeton professor Salvatore Torquato. He has led technical and business teams at venture backed high-tech startups developing novel thermoelectric, photonic, and phononic materials, and he is the author of several materials and manufacturing processes patents, including on the topics of granular media density enhancement, additive manufacturing print processes, thermoelectric design and production, and phononic attenuation. He earned his Ph. D. in Theoretical Chemistry from Princeton, where he was awarded a Charlotte Elizabeth Proctor Honorific Fellowship and the Ray Grimm Memorial Prize in Computational Physics. Adam obtained his bachelor's degree also at Princeton (cum laude) in Physics, with minors in Materials Science and Applied Mathematics.

Andrew Houck is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University and Director of the Princeton Quantum Institute. His current research centers on quantum computing and quantum simulation with superconducting circuits. Specific projects include discovering and implementing novel qubits, materials for quantum information, and many-body quantum optics. He teaches quantum information and has helped developed a new series of freshman physics and math courses that significantly reduces the achievement gap among first year students. Houck serves as the Deputy Director of the Co-Design Center for Quantum Advantage, a DOE center run out of Brookhaven National Laboratory, and as Past-Chair of the Division of Quantum Information in the American Physical Society. 

Jason Kawasaki '09 is an Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. His research group focuses on the epitaxial synthesis of magnetic and topological materials, especially Heusler compounds. He received a BSE in Mechanical Engineering with a certificate in Materials Science and Engineering from Princeton (2009) and Ph.D. in Materials from UC Santa Barbara (2014). From 2014-2016 he was a Kavli Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University. He began at UW-Madison in 2016. He is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, ARO and AFOSR Young Investigator Awards, and a DARPA Young Faculty Award.    

Alicia Kollár received her B.A. in Physics from Princeton University in 2010 and her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2016. In her doctoral studies with Benjamin Lev, she worked on the design and construction of a multimode cavity-BEC apparatus to study superradiant self-organization. She was awarded a Princeton Materials Science Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2017 to work with Andrew Houck on quantum simulation of solid-state physics using circuit QED lattices. Her research will focus on using novel coplanar waveguide lattice techniques and graph theory to design and realize microwave photonic crystals with unusual structures such as gapped flat bands and spatial curvature. She works on combining these structures with multimode/waveguide circuit QED to engineer quantum simulators of lattice and spin models. 

Elena Krieger is Director of Research at Physicians, Scientists, and Engineers for Healthy Energy (PSE), an energy science and policy research institute based out of Oakland, California. Upon joining PSE in 2013, she launched the organization's clean energy practice area, and now oversees its research efforts. Her current research focuses on accelerating the transition to clean and renewable energy resources, and developing transition pathways that realize health, environment, equity and resilience co-benefits, particularly focusing on the role of energy storage in reducing grid emissions and providing resilience. She also works closely with community organizations, non-profits, regulators, and policymakers to understand and use data and science to inform energy policy decisions. She received her PhD from Princeton's Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, where she worked with Professor Craig Arnold to characterize the performance and degradation of batteries under variable renewable energy charging conditions. 

Dr. Manyalibo (“Ibo”) Matthews currently serves as Project Leader for the Accelerated Certification of Additively Manufactured Metals project and Group Leader of the Laser Materials Interaction Science group in the Materials Science Division of the Physical & Life Sciences Directorate at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). He earned his Ph.D. in Physics from M.I.T. in the field of experimental condensed matter physics, and his B.S. in Applied Physics from the University of California at Davis. His research interests include understanding and optimizing metal 3D printing processes, laser materials processing, high power laser damage mechanisms, laser-based nanoscale modification of surfaces, and in situ characterization of transient processes. Prior to LLNL he was Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey where he worked on advanced methods for optical materials characterization and led a research team in advanced broadband access networks. Dr. Matthews has published over 140 peer-reviewed articles, two book chapters, holds 13 U.S. Patents and is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America

Dr. Hanhee Paik is a Research Staff Member at IBM Quantum, IBM T J Watson Research Center. Through her research career, she has been focusing on understanding the coherence mechanisms of superconducting qubits and developing superconducting multi-qubit architectures. Dr. Paik pioneered the novel design of a superconducting qubit that helped the industry to push the boundary of superconducting qubit performance and her research on the quantum processor design has greatly impacted the quantum computing community. Today's IBM Quantum systems coherence times benefit from Dr. Paik's work, and average an industry-best 100 microseconds. She played a pivotal role developing the 16-qubit IBM Q Experience device (Rueschlikon and Melbourne), and she is currently working on developing the next generation of quantum computing processors.

Antonio Perazzo received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Naples Federico II (Italy) in 2015 under the supervision of Prof. Stefano Guido. From 2015 to 2019 he was a postdoctoral research associate in Howard Stone group at Princeton University and since 2019 he joined Novaflux (Princeton, NJ) as a Senior Research Scientist. He broadly works in the field of soft matter for biomedical and biotechnological applications, and he is specialized in the rheology of complex fluids. 

Driven by a commitment she made to pursue a doctoral degree in engineering so that she can use the discipline to improve the lives of people across the globe, Cynthia has made contributions to the industrial community as an inventor, innovator, leader and change agent. Currently, she is the Senior Manager for the Low Carbon Refining & Catalytic Processes Team in Innovation & Engineering at bp. She is excited about leading the research group that is charged with helping bp's refinering portfolio achieve its NetZero ambitions. Previously, she served as a Business Manager for the COO of Fuels, North America, which required her to lead through several significant organizational changes. That experience allowed Cynthia to develop her business acumen and refine her leadership style. She has also used her materials science & corrosion expertise to ensure the mechanical integrity of our refineries to safely and reliably deliver products to our customers.  

Cynthia holds 6 US granted patents. She earned her Ph.D. in Materials Science & Engineering from Northwestern University and a B.S.E. degree in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University.  

Cynthia has committed a significant amount of her personal time over the last 20 years to advocacy and building programs in support of STEM education to build our pipeline of future scientists and engineers. She has been nationally recognized for her efforts by AIChE and NSBE. 

Rodney D Priestley is the first Vice Dean for Innovation at Princeton University. He is also the Pomeroy and Betty Perry Smith Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, the Associate Director of the Princeton Center for Complex Materials, and an entrepreneur. He obtained his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University in 2008. His research involves describing and developing complex materials, especially nanoparticles, thin polymer films, and nanocomposites, focusing on material properties at small length scales. From designing next-generation biocompatible surfactants to creating ultra-stable polymer films resistant to properties changes upon heating, his work impacts industries ranging from personal care to aerospace. His recent interests include the use of polymers in sustainability and their implications on the environment. For example, his team recently developed the Solar Absorber Gel technology that produces purified water from contaminated sources using only natural sunlight. Recent recognitions include the 2020 American Physical Society Dillon Medal and 2020 American Chemical Society Macro Letters-Biomacromolecules-Macromolecules Young Investigator Award. The Root named him to its list of 100 most influential African Americans, and he was also selected as a World Economic Forum Young Scientist. 

Dan Recht is the Global Business Development Lead at Formlabs, where he helps the world's leading companies shape and implement their additive manufacturing strategies. Previously, Dan led Volute, Inc., a startup that commercialized a new kind of fuel tank for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, to profitability and a successful acquisition. Prior to this Dan created a technology scouting and partnerships group at OCI, a large manufacturing and renewable energy company in Seoul, South Korea. Dan earned his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Harvard University and his bachelor's degree in Physics with a certificate in Materials Science and Engineering from Princeton University. 

Alejandro Rodriguez is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer  Engineering and the Director of the Program in Materials Science and Engineering at Princeton University. His research focuses on nanophotonics, the study of light in structured media, where he is known for his contributions to electromagnetic computational and mathematical methods and to the understanding of quantum fluctuations, nonlinear optics, and nanophotonic design. He was recently awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the National Science Foundation Early CAREER Award, the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers Young Investigator Award, and the Department of Energy Frederick A. Howes Award in Computational Science. He has Bachelors and PhD degrees in Physics from MIT and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University.

Michele L. Sarazen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University, where she joined in Spring 2019. Her research group at Princeton couples synthetic, kinetic, and theoretical investigations of porous crystalline materials as catalysts and adsorbents for sustainable fuel and chemical production with an emphasis of reaction and deactivation mechanisms. She earned her BS in Chemical Engineering, summa cum laude, at the Pennsylvania State University and her PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Her thesis, completed under the guidance of Enrique Iglesia, investigated zeolite-catalyzed alkene and alkane chain growth reactions through both experimental and theoretical approaches. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology, working with Christopher Jones on the synthesis of aminopolymer-based adsorbents for direct air capture of CO2 and metal-organic framework catalysts. 

Michele’s research in catalysis has been recognized by the Kokes Travel Award as an undergraduate at North American Catalysis Society (NACS) NAM22, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, UC Berkeley’s Heinz Heinemann Prize for graduate research in catalysis, CRE AIChE Travel Award, ACS Best Presentation in Catalysis Processes at Interfaces Session, AIChE Best Presentation in Catalytic Hydrocarbon Processing Session, and the National Academy of Engineering as a selected participant to US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. She is currently a Director of the CRE Division in AIChE and Chair-elect for the Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York. She is serving on the organizing committees for Northeast Corridor Zeolite Association Annual Meeting as well as for NACS NAM27. 

Barclay Satterfield is the External Innovation Technology Manager for Eastman Chemical Company. She helps to lead an office on the NC State University Centennial Campus that supports the execution of three multi-year research partnerships with NC State, UNC Chapel Hill, and the University of Tennessee. In this role, Barclay and her teammates connect industry and university researchers to drive collaborative innovation. 

Prior to joining Eastman in 2013, Barclay performed life cycle assessment studies as a consultant and was a Science Policy Fellow in the American Chemical Society’s Office of Public Affairs. 

Barclay earned her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University and her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Yale University. 

Joe Scanlan is an artist whose work takes multiple forms, from sculpture and design to publications and fictional personae. Indeed, there is a willful subterfuge running through much of his art, as exemplified in works that address the political economy of site-specific labor (Massachusetts Wedding Bed); scripting the life and work of a fictional artist in collaboration with professional actors (Donelle Woolford); or the founding, archive-building, and day-to-day operation of an art institution (The Broodthaers Society of America). Scanlan is also a widely read, discussed, and translated writer for such venues as Artforum, frieze, and Parkett, and his former website thingsthatfall.com. He has published five books in relation to his work: Object Lessons (Mu.Zee, Ostende) 2013; Passing Through (K21, Düsseldorf) 2007; DIY (Imschoot Uitgevers, Ghent) 2003; Pay Dirt (IKON, Birmingham, England) 2002; and Joe Scanlan (Museum Haus Lange, Germany) 1996. 

Recent projects include Décor and Avant-poste, two exhibitions curated from the permanent collection of the FRAC Pays de la Loire, Nantes; New Tricks, New Schemes, Scanlan’s fifth solo exhibition at Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna; and a large-scale installation as part of Klassenverhältnisse (Class Relations), a group show around the subject of class and art at the Kunstverein Hamburg. 

Scanlan was Director of the Visual Arts Program from 2009–2017 and was responsible for the total overhaul of the Program. During his tenure he revamped the curriculum, helped build a more ambitious, socially engaged environment for VIS concentrators, and greatly increased the visibility of the visual arts on campus. Most important, Scanlan expanded and diversified the full-time faculty to include Fia Backstrom, Martha Friedman, Deana Lawson, Pam Lins, Moon Molson, David Reinfurt, James Welling, and Jeff Whetstone, as well as part-time faculty Alice Chung, Daniel Heyman, Kurt Kauper, Demetrius Oliver, Yaara Sumeruk, Pacho Velez, and Amy Yao. Along with the long-standing contributions of Eve Aschheim and Su Friedrich, their professional accomplishments, commitment to teaching, and collegiality have transformed Princeton into one of the best undergraduate schools anywhere for studying visual art. 

Scanlan is also the holder of U.S. patent no. 6,488,732, which is a process for converting postconsumer waste into viable potting soil. Scanlan holds a BFA in Sculpture from the Columbus College of Art and Design, Ohio, and currently lives in New York City. 

Dr. Anuj Seth is the Executive Director of the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM). He has over 15 years of experience in the industry managing and leading innovation, and more than 20 granted US patents to his credit. He has managed intellectual property portfolios and spearheaded R&D, developing concepts into commercially successful technology platforms. Before coming to Princeton, Dr. Seth worked for Solidia Technologies where he was the head of Technology and Technical Services departments and managed the company’s intellectual property portfolio. Prior to Solidia Technologies, he worked at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP in their Intellectual Property Department as a Technology Specialist, and at Saint-Gobain’s corporate R&D center in Massachusetts as a Research Associate. Dr. Seth holds a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from University of Cincinnati and an MBA from the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 

Judith Sheft is the Executive Director of the New Jersey Commission of Science, Innovation and Technology.  The Commission's mission is to accelerate economic development in New Jersey through science, innovation and technology including stimulating academic-industrial collaboration and encouraging and supporting  entrepreneurs and inventors. Previously she was involved with regional economic and cluster development having responsibilities at the New Jersey Innovation Institute @ NJIT for the HealthIT Connections entrepreneurial cluster development program, the NJIT I-Corps Site and the Procurement Technical Assistance Center. She has been engaged with technology /IP innovation and commercialization efforts working with faculty and students to create startup companies and establishing licensing relationships with corporate partners.  She advised external startups at NJIT’s high technology / life sciences business accelerator/incubator.  She is on the Board of Advisors to the NJIT Murray Women’s Center and serves as a mentor and coach to students and faculty.   She is a former member of the NJ – Israel Commission and serves on the Board of Greater Newark Enterprise Corporation, StartUp Newark, Women’s Center for Entrepreneurship Corporation, Einstein’s Alley, SheTek and NJEDA Technology Advisory Board, working to assist early stage tech and life sciences entrepreneurs foster regional economic growth.  She was a co-chair  of Governor Murphy’s transition advisory committee for Technology Government and Innovation (2017).

Dr. Lara Silverman is the Head of R&D at DiscGenics, a clinical stage cell therapy company developing treatments for low back pain based in Salt Lake City, Utah. She has been at the company for 10 years, and oversees the preclinical program, mode of action research, bioprocess development, and new product development. She is also involved in clinical trial set-up and execution, regulatory writing and manufacturing oversight. Prior to DiscGenics, Lara received a PhD from Penn in Biomedical Engineering and BSE in Chemical Engineering with a certificate in Materials Science Engineering from Princeton. 

James Smith is a materials science lecturer for PRISM where he has developed and taught 3 new courses in the MSE certificate curriculum.  In his previous role at the University of Utah, he spent six years as an instructor and educational specialist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He also spent seven years as an assistant professor and group leader in the engineering group at Salt Lake Community College. Dr. Smith has years of experience developing educational experiences for students using cleanrooms and microscopy facilities. He developed the first nanotechnology and microscopy certificate programs in the state of Utah, and a general engineering associates degree at Salt Lake Community College. As an entrepreneur, he has been a founding team member of four technology startups where he worked for a combined 25 years creating innovative products in the ceramics, mems, computational materials, and high throughput mAb discovery industries. 

James C. Sturm is a “Jersey Guy,” and currently the Forrest Professor of Electrical Engineering, the Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Electrical Engineering, and co-director of the Princeton Program in Plasma Science and Technology.   He received his B.S.E. degree in electrical engineering and engineering physics from Princeton University in 1979, and then joined Intel, working on the design of early microprocessors such as the 8086. He later received his M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University, and returned to N.J. to join Princeton in 1986. His work at Princeton and its impact on industry and academia has spanned new materials and device structures for VLSI microchips, such as silicon-based heterojunctions, photovoltaics, flat panel displays and flexible electronics, and the nano/bio interface.  

At Princeton Dr. Sturm was the director of the Princeton Photonic and Optoelectronic Materials Center (POEM) from 1997-2003, and was founding director of PRISM from 2003-2015. Dr. Sturm is a fellow of IEEE and of the National Academy of Inventors. He has co-founded multiple start-ups, and is proudest of all of his students.

Jeff Thompson is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton. His research focuses primarily on experimental quantum information, in particular using atomic or atom-like systems in the solid state. Before joining Princeton in 2016, he received his BS from Yale University, a PhD from Harvard University where he was a Hertz Foundation graduate fellow, and was a postdoc at MIT. He has recently been recognized with several awards, including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, a DOE Early Career Award, an AFOSR Young Investigator Award and a Sloan Foundation fellowship. 

Emre Turkoz is currently a research scientist for Engineering Physics within the Corporate Strategic Research laboratory at ExxonMobil Research and Engineering. He earned a B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Bogazici University in 2012 and 2014, respectively. His M.S. research was on the modeling of low-temperature plasma for electric propulsion applications. Emre visited Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory as a visiting scholar in 2013. He earned a Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University in 2019. His Ph.D. research focused on understanding the dynamics of Newtonian and non-Newtonian liquid jets and filament breakup using experiments and simulations. Emre joined ExxonMobil Research and Engineering in 2019. His primary research centers on multiphase flows in porous media. He designs and conducts multiphase fluid flow experiments in lab-based systems representative of a range of flow conditions relevant to business problems to test hypotheses he develops and draw scientific conclusions into the fundamental behavior of these systems. He develops physics-based models of multiphase flow dynamics in heterogeneous porous media to address scientifically challenging questions at the frontier of both fluid dynamics and soft-matter physics. 

Jason Wexler is the Head of Research at Treau, a seed-stage hardware startup in San Francisco, CA making high efficiency heat pumps for the home that are better for the environment, easier to install, and more pleasant to use.  Treau spun out of Otherlab, a commercial research lab whose mission is to develop technological solutions to the climate crisis.  Jason and his team are responsible for the thermal architecture of Treau's heat pump, as well as the development of advanced technologies to be integrated into future generations of the product (polymeric heat exchanger, membrane compressor).  Prior to Treau, he was the technical lead at Volute, another Otherlab startup.  Under his direction, Volute developed a novel hydrogen pressure vessel that is conformable to any shape and more effectively dissipates the heat of compression of hydrogen gas.  Volute licensed this technology to Linamar, a Tier 1 auto supplier.  Jason completed his PhD in the MAE department at Princeton University, where he investigated the durability of a novel class of drag reducing surfaces under the direction of Howard Stone.  He completed his BS at UC Berkeley, also in Mechanical Engineering. 

Judy Yang is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering at the University of Minnesota. She is broadly interested in the transport of fluids, particles, bacteria, and chemicals in the natural environment. Her current research includes the transport of mud, a natural soft material, in rivers and coastal areas, and the transport of chemicals and microbes in and out of mud and soil. Yang was a Princeton postdoc in Howard Stone’s lab from 2018-2020. She is always open to new ideas and collaborations. 

Siavash Yazdanfar is the Director of Applied Optical Physics at Corning Research & Development Corporation.  In this capacity he leads strategy and execution of research in optical physics and light-matter interactions for Corning’s next generation of products for consumer electronics, display, augmented/mixed reality and specialty materials. His organization's technology covers the modification of materials (cutting, bonding, drilling, etc.) via laser processing, as well as micro- and nano-structured materials for light management. 

Dr. Yazdanfar received a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and was a postdoctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  He has published 40 articles in peer-reviewed journals and is an inventor on 30 issued US patents.