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.
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 |