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With an eye toward renewable energy, biotech specialist Giannakopoulou is named a Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Biotechnology specialist Archontoula Giannakopoulou has joined Princeton CBE as a 2023 Presidential Postdoctoral Research Scholar, bringing expertise in the use of biotechnologies to address problems in energy and health.

Bioengineering postdoc wins three-year fellowship to study physical origins of lung disease

She is one of 18 fellows for 2023, according to an LSRF announcement. The awards not only provide financial support but also experience managing a research budget and the opportunity to build independent research programs. LSRF was founded in 1981 by the late Dr. Donald D. Brown and announced its…

AIChE honors Sujit Datta with the Colburn Award for Excellence in Publications

The Colburn Award goes annually to a member of the Institute who has made significant contributions to the chemical engineering literature and who has received a Ph.D. within the past 12 years. AIChE first gave the award in…

Computational modeling pioneer Yannis Kevrekidis wins AIChE's 2023 Walker Award

Yannis Kevrekidis, a pioneer in the computational study of complex systems, has won the 2023 William H. Walker Award for Excellence in Contributions to Chemical Engineering Literature from the American Institute of Chemical Engineering (AIChE).

Soft matter expert Sujit Datta promoted to associate professor

Datta joined the department as an assistant professor in 2017. Since then, he has established himself as a leading researcher in the study of how soft materials — everything from synthetic fluids to living cells — interact with and move through complex real-world environments.

'Creative, tenacious' work on soft robotics wins department's top dissertation award

Recent Ph.D. recipient Trevor Jones, whose work on soft robotics has been featured in several top journals, won the department’s Jui Dasgupta Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award. Graduate students Drew Carson and Evelyn Navarro-Salazar each won an Outstanding AI Award for their teaching.

Class Day ceremony honors excellence in a "tight-knit community"

"Remember to think critically and independently," said Christos Maravelias, Anderson Family Professor of Energy and the Environment and chair of chemical and biological engineering. "This is the hallmark…

Engineering leader Richard Register recognized for outstanding service

Register, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and director of the Princeton Materials Institute, is the recipient of the SEAS Faculty Distinguished…

Sustainable materials expert Emily Davidson wins SEAS junior faculty award

Emily Davidson, an expert in designing sustainable materials, has won the Alfred Rheinstein Faculty Award from Princeton's School of Engineering and Applied Science, one of the school's annual honors for junior faculty. Each recipient of a 2023 junior faculty award will receive $50,000 to support their work.

Nine students receive NSF funding for graduate research

Four current and incoming graduate students and five graduating seniors from Princeton CBE have been awarded graduate research fellowships from the National Science Foundation, a five-year program that includes three years of funding for their graduate studies.