The Department of Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon has for decades promoted excellence in academic research, and a significant number of our graduates go on to academic careers. More than 130 CMU ChemE alumni are currently or have until recently been faculty members at major universities in the United States and overseas. These alumni are outstanding ambassadors of the quality and innovation of the research in our department, and we are proud to recognize many of them here.
Spotlight stories: Alumni in academia
Ph.D. alumni in academia
- Luke Achenie, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- Nick Alvarez, Drexel University
- Kimberly Anderson, University of Kentucky
- Aravind Asthagiri, The Ohio State University
- Ruth Baltus, Clarkson University
- Rene Bañares, Oxford University
- David Bernal, Purdue University
- Alex Bertuccio, The University of Kansas
- Michael Bevan, Johns Hopkins University
- Stacy Birmingham, Saint Vincent College
- Donna Blackmond, Scripps Research Institute
- Lisa Bullard, North Carolina State University
- Stephanie Butler Velegol, The Pennsylvania State University
- Jaime Cerda, Universidad Nacional del Litoral
- Ray Dagostine, The University of Melbourne
- Alex Dowling, University of Notre Dame
- Christodoulos Floudas, Texas A&M University
- Dimitrios Gerogiorgis, The University of Edinburgh
- Elisabeth Gilmore, Carleton University
- Aaron Goldstein, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- Rakesh Govind, University of Cincinnati
- Scott Guelcher, Vanderbilt University
- Keshava Halemane, National Institute of Technology Karnataka
- Lea Hildebrandt, University of Texas at Austin
- Christine Hrenya, Rutgers University
- Andrew Hrymak, Western University
- Annette Jacobson, Carnegie Mellon University
- Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Nagoya University
- Carl Laird, Carnegie Mellon University
- Jaewoo Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology
- Jinwon Lee, Sogang University
- Can Li, Purdue University
- JitKang Lim, Universiti Sains Malaysia
- Christos Maravelias, Princeton University
- Il Moon, Yonsei University
- Alexandra Newby, Carnegie Mellon University
- Casey O'Brien, Texas Tech University
- Robert Ofoli, Michigan State University
- Nuno Oliveira, University of Coimbra
- Joseph Pekny, Purdue University
- Jeffrey Pierce, Colorado State University
- Lilo Pozzo, University of Washington
- Albert Presto, Carnegie Mellon University
- Efstratios Pistikopoulos, Texas A&M University
- Rees Rankin, New Jersey Institute of Technology
- Tim Raymond, Bucknell University
- Vicente Rico, Instituto Tecnológico de Celaya
- Ellis Robinson, University of Arizona
- Nikolaos Sahinidis, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Eva Sevick-Muraca, UTHealth Houston
- Joseph Shaeiwitz, West Virginia University
- Charles Stanier, Iowa State University
- Anirudh Subramanyam, The Pennsylvania State University
- Millicent Sullivan, University of Delaware
- Ross Swaney, University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Metin Turkay, Koc University
- Darrell Velegol, The Pennsylvania State University
- Andreas Waechter, Northwestern University
- Kristina Wagstrom, University of Connecticut
- John Walz, Milwaukee School of Engineering
- Jason West, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chris Wirth, Case Western Reserve University
- Fengqi You, Cornell University
- Juan Zamora, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
- Victor Zavala, University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Qi Zhang, University of Minnesota
- John Zondlo, West Virginia University
Undergraduate alumni in academia
- Nasser Abukhdeir, University of Waterloo
- John Berg, University of Washington
- Mark Byrne, Rowan University
- Eric Furst, University of Delaware
- Jordan Green, Johns Hopkins University
- Matthew Hegelson, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Bri-Mathias Hodge, University of Colorado Boulder
- David Kofke, University at Buffalo
- Christopher Macosko, University of Minnesota
- James Newell, Rowan University
- Michael Nigra, The University of Utah
- Michelle O'Malley, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Maria Santore, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Kristen Schell, Carleton University
- Charles Schroeder, Princeton University
- Scott Shell, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Anita Shukla, Brown University
- Maureen Tang, Drexel University
- Sebastian Vega, Rowan University
- Norm Wagner, University of Delaware
Former postdoctoral fellows in academia
- Elvis Ahmetovic, University of Tuzla
- Nihal Berktas, Durham University Business School
- Eugenio Bringas, Universidad de Cantabria
- Jose Caballero, Universidad de Alicante
- Eduardo Camponogara, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
- Pedro Castro, Instituto Superior Técnico
- Henry Chu, University of Florida
- Felipe Diaz, Universidad de Chile
- Marcelo Escobar, Universidad Federal de Río Grande del Sur
- Antonio Flores-Tlacuahuac, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education
- Anibal Galan, University of Valladolid
- Berta Galan, Universidad de Cantabria
- Gonzalo Guillen, ETH Zurich
- Truls Gundersen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
- Iiro Harjunkoski, Aalto University
- Ramalingam Kailasham, Indian Institute of Technology, Indore
- Brage Knudsen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
- Zdravko Kravanja, University of Maribor
- Jan Kronqvist, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
- Ricardo Lima, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
- Jose Maria Ponce, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo
- Mariano Martin, Universidad de Salamanca
- Nancy Medina, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
- Jilian Melamed, University of Pennsylvania
- Carlos Mendez, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe
- Fabricio Oliveira, Aalto University
- Inês Portugal, Universidade de Aveiro
- Joshua Pulsipher, University of Waterloo
- Juan Reyes Labarta, Universidad de Alicante
- Ilona Riipinen, Stockholm University
- Analia Rodriguez, University of Córdoba
- Ruben Ruiz, University of Alicante
- Raquel Salcedo, University of Alicante
- Javier Tovar Facio, Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua
- Aldo Vecchietti, Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
- Ryan Weiss, Carlow University
- Sai Yerneni, University of Texas at Austin
- Zhihong Yuan, Tsinghua University
- Hongyu Zhang, University of Southampton
- Shengnan Zhao, Northeastern University
- Edwin Zondervan, University of Twente
If we missed recognizing you on this list, please email lsmith2@andrew.cmu.edu to be added.