ChemE Future Faculty Seminar Series

Welcome to the 2022 National ChemE Future Faculty Seminar Series. This is a set of weekly virtual seminars that feature aspiring future faculty members who highlight the diversity of the field of Chemical Engineering. The series is jointly hosted by Chemical Engineering department chairs at the University of Pennsylvania, Texas Tech and the University of Michigan.
Speaker nominations can be made using this link. Senior faculty interested in serving as session chairs and/or mentors should contact the organizers by email, here.

When: Fridays@12-1pm ET, starting Sep. 16th. Click here to add the schedule to your (Google) calendar.
Where: Zoom. Register for the seminars here.

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Date	Speakers	Title	Session Chairs
Sep 16th	‪Fernanda Piorino‬ Bernardo Gouveia	Bacterial biosensors for low-cost, point-of-care diagnostics Biophysics of spindle assembly and microtubule associated condensates	Sharon Glotzer (Michigan) Rebecca Willits (Northeastern)
Sep 23rd	Tayler Hebner Raul Marquez	Designing functional performance in liquid crystalline elastomers through correlation of fundamental material properties Taking the next step in electrocatalysis: closing gaps between lab-scale electrochemistry and electrochemical engineering	Chinedum Osuji (Penn) Paul Kenis (UIUC)
Sep 30th	Harnoor Sachar Justin Bui	Impact of Cation-Ligand Interaction Strength on the Permselectivity of Ligand-Functionalized Polymer Membranes Continuum modeling to advance the development of electrochemical synthesis devices	Sharon Glotzer (Michigan) Mark Swihart (Buffalo) Chinedum Osuji (Penn)
Oct 7th	James Burrow Aurora Lopez	Structure-Function Relations of N-Rich Physisorbents: Material Property Engineering for Efficient CO2 Capture by Swing Adsorption Systems Engineering Tools for the Separation and Recycling of Multilayer Plastic Films	Gerri Botte (Texas Tech.) Mark Swihart (Buffalo)
Oct 14th	Evan Spotte-Smith Julian Vigil	Leveraging big data and chemical reaction networks to explore and explain electrochemistry Details in diffusion: Finding and controlling defects in halide perovskite semiconductors	Rachel Segalman (UCSB) Chinedum Osuji (Penn)
Oct 21st	Isaiah Borne Monica Neugebauer	Engineering porous liquids for gas separations Engineering enzymes for biocatalysis and gene editing	Paul Kenis (UIUC) Rachel Segalman (UCSB)
Oct 28th	Olivia Lanier Rituparna Samanta	Developing an Oral Delivery Platform for siRNA Using Intelligent Nanotechnology Systems for Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Towards an implicit model to capture electrostatic features of membrane environment	Rachel Segalman (UCSB) Mark Styczynski (Georgia Tech.) Rebecca Willits (Northeastern)
Nov 4th	BREAK
Nov 11th	BREAK
Nov 18th	AIChE Meeting
Nov 25th	BREAK – Thanksgiving
Dec 2nd	TBD
Dec 9th	TBD
Dec 16th	TBD
Date	Speakers	Title	Session Chairs