2020 Chemical Engineering Outstanding Recent Faculty Hires

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The department has 33 tenured/tenure-track and affiliated faculty who have received over $14M in external research awards between 2018 and 2020. Our downtown Boston campus facilitates collaborations with major medical centers, other universities, research laboratories, national laboratories, and industry. Our faculty actively contribute to scholarship to solve problems related to health, sustainability, and energy.

About Northeastern Chemical Engineering

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360 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115

OUTSTANDING RECENT FACULTY HIRES

Rebecca Kuntz Willits, chairperson of Northeastern’s Chemical Engineering Department, is proud to recognize our most recent faculty’s accomplishments.

Debra Auguste Professor PhD: Princeton University, 2005 Joined Northeastern: September 2016 Scholarship Focus: Bioresponsive drug delivery, cell and tissue engineering, tissue architecture, targeted therapeutics Awards and Recent Projects: • Fellow, AIMBE, 2020 • Fellow, Biomedical Engineering Society, 2018 • Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering, 2012 • NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, 2012 • NSF CAREER Award, 2011 Sidi A. Bencherif Assistant Professor PhD: Carnegie Mellon University, 2009 Postdoctoral Fellow/Research Associate: Harvard Wyss Institute, 2009-16 Joined Northeastern: September 2016 Scholarship Focus: Polymer chemistry and engineering; biomaterials; biomedical engineering; drug delivery; tissue engineering; regenerative medicine; immunotherapy; immunoengineering; vaccines Awards and Recent Projects: • MTTC MA Acorn Innovation Award, 2020 • “Oxygen-controlling Cryogels for Cell Culture Applications,” NSF (PI), 2020 • NSF CAREER Award, 2019 • “Modulating Local Tumor Hypoxia using Cryogel Scaffolds to Regulate Dendritic Cell Function and Activity,” NSF (PI), 2019

Joshua Gallaway

DiPietro Assistant Professor PhD: Columbia University, 2007 Senior Research Associate: CUNY Energy Institute, 2010-17 Joined Northeastern: August 2017 Scholarship Focus: Electrochemical engineering, batteries and energy storage, energy sustainability Awards and Recent Projects: • “Engineering the Metal Sulfide Interface in All Solid State Batteries through Operando Study,” NSF (co-PI), 2019 • “Understanding Phase Change Processes of Energy Storage Materials,” Department of Energy, OE (PI), 2018

Sara M. Hashmi

Assistant Professor PhD: Yale University, 2008 Joined Northeastern: August 2019 Scholarship Focus: Complex fluids, biomaterials & soft materials: manipulation of nanoscale and single-particle properties to control macroscale transport & assembly; microfluidics for biomedical, pharmaceutical & energy applications

Steven Lustig Associate Professor; Associate Chair for Research PhD: Purdue University, 1989 Principal Investigator: Central Research & Development, DuPont, 1990-2016 Joined Northeastern: September 2016 Scholarship Focus: Design and manipulation of molecular/materials chemistry and structure by combining theoretical and experimental methods; high performance computing, quantum chemistry, statistical mechanics, polymer physics, materials and biomolecular engineering Awards and Recent Projects: • Joint Faculty Appointee U.S. Army Research Laboratory, lightweight and highstrength materials, 2019 • “Covetic Materials Design and Synthesis,” DoD, 2019 • “Two-Dimensional Polymers Design Synthesis and Characterization,” DoD, 2019 • “Performance Enhancement of Liquid Crystalline Polyaramides,” DuPont, 2019 • AIChE Industrial R&D Institute Award, 2013

Andrew Jones

Assistant Professor PhD: Massachusettes Institute of Technology, 2018 Postdoctoral Fellow/Future Faculty Fellowship: Northeastern University, 2017 - 2019 Joined Northeastern: August 2019 Scholarship Focus: Systems engineering approaches to understand the impact of engineered and environmental stresses on bacteria life cycles with applications in health, ecology, water and wastewater treatment Awards and Recent Projects: • “Enabling a Lab-On-A-Faucet,” Sloan Scholars Mentoring Network (PI), 2020 • Post-doctoral Student Award, The American Institute of Chemists, 2019 • Montana State University Center for Biofilm Engineering Young Investigator Award, 2018

Rebecca Willits

Professor and Chairperson PhD: Cornell University, 1999 Joined Northeastern: July 2020 Scholarship Focus: Neural regenerative strategies, neural mechanosensing, diversity and inclusion in engineering Awards and Recent Projects: • Fellow, BMES, 2020 • Fellow, AIMBE, 2017 • “Toward a Mechanotransduction Mimic of the Neural Stem Cell Niche,” NSF (PI), 2019 • “Collaborative Research: Professional Preparation of Underrepresented Minority PhD’s and Post-Docs for a Career in Engineering Academia,” NSF (Co-PI), 2017

Benjamin Woolston

Assistant Professor PhD: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017 Joined Northeastern: January 2020 Scholarship Focus: Metabolic engineering and synthetic biology for sustainable biochemical production and human health

NORTHEASTERN ENGINEERING INNOVATING FOR SOCIETY

Debra Auguste Professor PhD: Princeton University, 2005 Joined Northeastern: September 2016 Scholarship Focus: Bioresponsive drug delivery, cell and tissue engineering, tissue architecture, targeted therapeutics Awards and Recent Projects: • Fellow, AIMBE, 2020 • Fellow, Biomedical Engineering Society, 2018 • Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering, 2012 • NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, 2012 • NSF CAREER Award, 2011 Sidi A. Bencherif Assistant Professor PhD: Carnegie Mellon University, 2009 Postdoctoral Fellow/Research Associate: Harvard Wyss Institute, 2009-16 Joined Northeastern: September 2016 Scholarship Focus: Polymer chemistry and engineering; biomaterials; biomedical engineering; drug delivery; tissue engineering; regenerative medicine; immunotherapy; immunoengineering; vaccines Awards and Recent Projects: • MTTC MA Acorn Innovation Award, 2020 • “Oxygen-controlling Cryogels for Cell Culture Applications,” NSF (PI), 2020 • NSF CAREER Award, 2019 • “Modulating Local Tumor Hypoxia using Cryogel Scaffolds to Regulate Dendritic Cell Function and Activity,” NSF (PI), 2019

Joshua Gallaway

DiPietro Assistant Professor PhD: Columbia University, 2007 Senior Research Associate: CUNY Energy Institute, 2010-17 Joined Northeastern: August 2017 Scholarship Focus: Electrochemical engineering, batteries and energy storage, energy sustainability Awards and Recent Projects: • “Engineering the Metal Sulfide Interface in All Solid State Batteries through Operando Study,” NSF (co-PI), 2019 • “Understanding Phase Change Processes of Energy Storage Materials,” Department of Energy, OE (PI), 2018

Sara M. Hashmi

Assistant Professor PhD: Yale University, 2008 Joined Northeastern: August 2019 Scholarship Focus: Complex fluids, biomaterials & soft materials: manipulation of nanoscale and single-particle properties to control macroscale transport & assembly; microfluidics for biomedical, pharmaceutical & energy applications

Steven Lustig Associate Professor; Associate Chair for Research PhD: Purdue University, 1989 Principal Investigator: Central Research & Development, DuPont, 1990-2016 Joined Northeastern: September 2016 Scholarship Focus: Design and manipulation of molecular/materials chemistry and structure by combining theoretical and experimental methods; high performance computing, quantum chemistry, statistical mechanics, polymer physics, materials and biomolecular engineering Awards and Recent Projects: • Joint Faculty Appointee U.S. Army Research Laboratory, lightweight and highstrength materials, 2019 • “Covetic Materials Design and Synthesis,” DoD, 2019 • “Two-Dimensional Polymers Design Synthesis and Characterization,” DoD, 2019 • “Performance Enhancement of Liquid Crystalline Polyaramides,” DuPont, 2019 • AIChE Industrial R&D Institute Award, 2013

Andrew Jones

Assistant Professor PhD: Massachusettes Institute of Technology, 2018 Postdoctoral Fellow/Future Faculty Fellowship: Northeastern University, 2017 - 2019 Joined Northeastern: August 2019 Scholarship Focus: Systems engineering approaches to understand the impact of engineered and environmental stresses on bacteria life cycles with applications in health, ecology, water and wastewater treatment Awards and Recent Projects: • “Enabling a Lab-On-A-Faucet,” Sloan Scholars Mentoring Network (PI), 2020 • Post-doctoral Student Award, The American Institute of Chemists, 2019 • Montana State University Center for Biofilm Engineering Young Investigator Award, 2018

Rebecca Willits

Professor and Chairperson PhD: Cornell University, 1999 Joined Northeastern: July 2020 Scholarship Focus: Neural regenerative strategies, neural mechanosensing, diversity and inclusion in engineering Awards and Recent Projects: • Fellow, BMES, 2020 • Fellow, AIMBE, 2017 • “Toward a Mechanotransduction Mimic of the Neural Stem Cell Niche,” NSF (PI), 2019 • “Collaborative Research: Professional Preparation of Underrepresented Minority PhD’s and Post-Docs for a Career in Engineering Academia,” NSF (Co-PI), 2017

Benjamin Woolston

Assistant Professor PhD: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017 Joined Northeastern: January 2020 Scholarship Focus: Metabolic engineering and synthetic biology for sustainable biochemical production and human health

NORTHEASTERN ENGINEERING INNOVATING FOR SOCIETY

Nonprofit Organization U.S. Postage PAID Holliston, MA Permit No. 74

The department has 33 tenured/tenure-track and affiliated faculty who have received over $14M in external research awards between 2018 and 2020. Our downtown Boston campus facilitates collaborations with major medical centers, other universities, research laboratories, national laboratories, and industry. Our faculty actively contribute to scholarship to solve problems related to health, sustainability, and energy.

About Northeastern Chemical Engineering

coe.northeastern.edu

360 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115

OUTSTANDING RECENT FACULTY HIRES

Rebecca Kuntz Willits, chairperson of Northeastern’s Chemical Engineering Department, is proud to recognize our most recent faculty’s accomplishments.