Wilhelm Lectures

This distinguished lectureship honors the memory of Richard H. Wilhelm, a graduate of Columbia University who spent his entire professional career at Princeton University. He joined the Department of Chemical Engineering in 1934 and served as chairman from 1954 until his death in 1968. In recognition of his distinguished teaching, he was named Henry Putnam University Professor by Princeton University and given the Warren K. Lewis Award in Chemical Engineering Education by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

For his research leadership in numerous areas of chemical reaction engineering, he received from the AIChE the William H. Walker Award in 1951 and the Professional Progress Award in 1952 and the Award in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry from the American Chemical Society in 1966. In 1968 he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, the highest professional distinction that can be conferred upon an American engineer.

In 1973, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers established the R.H. Wilhelm Award in Chemical Reaction Engineering, presented each year to an individual in recognition of significant and new contributions in the field. The Richard H. Wilhelm Lectureship was established through the generosity of his colleagues, friends, and students.

2022 Wilhelm Lecturer: Bernhard Palsson

Bernhard Palsson is the Y.C. Fung Endowed Professor in Bioengineering, Professor of Pediatrics, and the Principal Investigator of the Systems Biology Research Group in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Palsson has co-authored more than 600 peer-reviewed research articles and has authored four textbooks, with more in preparation.

He is a founding member of the NNF Center for Biosustainability and has served as its Director from its inception in 2011. The CFB is now a international research center with over 300 FTEs.

His research includes the development of computational biology methods (flux-balance analysis, and modal analysis), genome-scale models (M models, ME models), data analytic methods (iModulons, pangenomics, alleleome, structural proteomics) and the formulation of specific sysbio models of the red blood cell, E. coli, CHO cells, and many human pathogens.

He has sat on the editorial board of several leading peer-reviewed microbiology, bioengineering, and biotechnology journals. He previously held a faculty position at the University of Michigan for 11 years where he was named the G.G. Brown Associate Professor at Michigan in 1989.

He is inventor on over 40 U.S. patents, the co-founder of several biotechnology companies, and holds several major biotechnology awards. He received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1984. Dr. Palsson is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and is a Fellow of the AIChE, AIMBE, AAAS, and the AAM. Dr. Palsson has been a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher since 2014.

Genome Engineering: A new engineering discipline emerging in the 2020s

Wed, Oct 26, 2022, 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Thu, Oct 27, 2022, 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Location: Friend Center – Convocation Room – 113

Previous Lecturers in the Series

2019	Paula T. Hammond	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2018	Joseph DeSimone	Carbon, Inc.
2017	Matthew Tirrell	University of ChicagoArgonne National Laboratory
2016	Kristi S. Anseth	University of Colorado at Boulder
2015	Ronald G. Larson	University of Michigan
2014	Enrique Iglesia	University of California at Berkeley
2013	Chaitan Khosla	Stanford University
2012	Klavs Jensen	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2011	Martin Feinberg	Ohio State University
2010	Lanny Schmidt	University of Minnesota
2009	George Stephanopoulos	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2008	Mark E. Davis	California Institute of Technology
2008	Frances H. Arnold	California Institute of Technology
2006	Frank S. Bates	University of Minnesota
2005	Carol K. Hall	North Carolina State University
2003	John F. Brady	California Institute of Technology
2002	William R. Schowalter	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2001	Alice P. Gast	Stanford University
2001	Charles F. Zukoski	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1999	Cherry A. Murray	Bell LaboratoriesLucent Technologies
1998	Eduardo D. Glandt	University of Pennsylvania
1997	John Villadsen	Technical University of Denmark
1995	Robert A. Brown	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1994	Roger W.H. Sargent	Imperial College of ScienceTechnologyand Medicine
1992	George K. Batchelor	Cambridge University
1991	R. Byron Bird	University of Wisconsin at Madison
1988	John F. Davidson	Cambridge University
1987	George Gavalas	California Institute of Technology
1985	Reuel Shinnar	City College of the City University of New York
1983	Dan Luss	University of Houston
1981	Rutherford Aris	University of Minnesota
1980	John M. Prausnitz	University of California at Berkeley
1979	Roger A. Schmitz	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1978	Neal R. Amundson	University of Houston
1977	Jack B. Howard	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1976	Michel Boudart	Stanford University
1975	L.E. Scriven	University of Minnesota