Symposium Speakers
Our 50 Years Symposium & Celebration welcomes leaders in industry and academia, all of whom are former students and colleagues of Dr. Don Paul, to speak in his honor. Speakers are listed alphabetically by last name.
Eric Baer
Professor, Case Western Reserve University
New Polymeric Nanolayered Systems by Continuous Co-extrusion – Forced Assembly
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Richard Baker
Principal Scientist, Membrane Technology and Research, Inc.
A Membrane Approach to CO2 Capture
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Clive Bosnyak
Co-founder and CSO, Molecular Rebar Design, LLC.
Unlocking the Full Potential of Carbon Nanotubes
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Stephen Cheng
Professor, University of Akron
Precisely Functionalized Molecular Nanoparticles are Unique Elements for Macromolecular Science: From “Nanoatoms” to Giant Molecules
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Joe DeSimone
CEO & Co-founder, Carbon, Inc
Future Fabricated with Light: Continuous Liquid Interface Production to Drive Additive Manufacturing
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Enrico Drioli
Emeritus Professor, University of Calabria
Membrane Engineering In Our Life
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Christopher Ellison
Associate Professor, University of Minnesota
Programming Surface Energy Driven Marangoni Convection to Patter Polymer Films
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Benny Freeman
Professor, The University of Texas at Austin
Membranes for Gas and Liquid Separations: From Fundamentals to Applications
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Venkat Ganesan
Professor, The University of Texas at Austin
Mechanisms Underlying Ion Transport in Polymer Electrolytes
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Geoff Geise
Assistant Professor, University of Virginia
Structure/Property Relationships in Polymer Membranes for Water Purification and Energy Applications
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Jaime Grunlan
Professor, Texas A&M University
Oxygen and moisture barrier from polyelectrolyte-clay nanocoatings
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Hal Hopfenberg
Professor Emeritus, NC State University
Don Paul: Fifty Years at Texas; more than fifty years my friend
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William Koros
Professor, Georgia Tech
Seeing Things, Clearly, Saying Them Honestly and Simply: This Defines Don Paul
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Carl Locke
Dean Emeritus, The University of Kansas
Professor Don Paul’s Early Days at UT Austin
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Lynn Loo
Professor, Princeton University
Making Smart Windows Smarter with Near-UV Organic Solar Cells Providing Onboard Power
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Nate Lynd
Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Austin
Living Polymerization of Epoxides using Mono-μ-oxo-dialuminum (MOD) Initiators
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Bryan McCloskey
Assistant Professor, University of California Berkeley
Designing polymer-based electrolytes with high lithium ion transference number and conductivity
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Greg McKenna
Professor, Texas Tech University
Challenging Paradigms of the Glass Transition: Novel Experiments from 20 Million Year Old Amber to Vapor Deposited Ultra-stable Polymer Films
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Daniel Miller
CSD Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Challenges and Opportunities in Solar-Driven Carbon Dioxide Reduction
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Donald Paul
Professor, The University of Texas at Austin
Thermodynamics of Polymer Blends
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Nicholas Peppas
Professor, The University of Texas at Austin
From the Early Contributions of Don Paul in Hydrogels and Drug Delivery to a New Generation on Intelligent Materials
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Judy Riffle
Professor, Virginia Tech
Ionic Membranes for Desalination
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Lloyd Robeson
Air Products, Lehigh University
Permeability, Polymer Blends and Membrane Separation: Over 50 Years of Following Don Paul’s Outstanding Contributions
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Joseph C. Salamone
Chief Science Officer, Rochal Industries
Entrepreneurial Activities in Biomedical Materials
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Isaac Sanchez
Professor, The University of Texas at Austin
Energy Saturation as an Alternative Mechanism of the Glass Transition
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Zachary Smith
Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institutes of Technology
From Fundamentals to Application: Taking Don Paul’s Guidance to Develop New Membrane Materials
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Carl Willis
Research Fellow, Kraton Polymers
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Grant Willson
Professor, The University of Texas at Austin
Polymers for High Resolution Imaging Applications
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Andrew Zydney
Professor, Pennsylvania State University
Membrane Separations for the Purification of Gene Therapy Agents
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