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Dat Huynh is a PhD candidate in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware. He received his B.S. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Mathematics from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2019. Before beginning his graduate studies, he worked as a process engineer at ExxonMobil. He is a recipient of the GAANN Fellowship and the Departmental Teaching Fellowship at the University of Delaware. His research focuses on sustainability, policy, optimization, and process systems engineering, with additional interests in engineering education.

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Dr. Joshua Enszer is an associate professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware. He has taught core and elective courses across the curriculum, from introduction to engineering science and material and energy balances to

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Marianthi Ierapetritou is the Bob and Jane Gore Centennial Chair Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware. Prior to that, she was a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Rutgers University. During the last year at Rutgers University, she led the efforts of the university advancing the careers in STEM for women at Rutgers as an Associate Vice President of the University.
Dr. Ierapetritou’s research focuses on the following areas: 1) process operations; 2) design and synthesis of flexible production systems with emphasis on pharmaceutical manufacturing; 3) energy and sustainability process modeling and operations, including biomass conversion and plastics upcycling, and recycling; and 4) modeling of biopharmaceutical production. Her research is supported by several federal (FDA, NIH, NSF, ONR, NASA, DOE) and industrial (BMS, J&J, GSK, PSE, Bosch, Eli Lilly) grants.
Among her accomplishments are the 2025 Sargent Medal, the 2024 AIChE Excellence in Pharmaceutical Process Development Award, the 2024 College of Engineering Award for Excellence in Service and Community Engagement, the 2022 AICHE Excellence in Process Development Research Award, the appointment as the Gore Centennial Chair Professor in 2019, the promotion to distinguished professor at Rutgers University in 2017, the 2016 Computing and Systems Technology (CAST) division Award in Computing in Chemical Engineering which is the highest distinction in the Systems area of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), the Award of Division of Particulate Preparations and Design (PPD) of The Society of Powder Technology, Japan; the Outstanding Faculty Award at Rutgers; the Rutgers Board of Trustees Research Award for Scholarly Excellence; and the prestigious NSF CAREER award. She has served as a Consultant to the FDA under the Advisory Committee for Pharmaceutical Science and Clinical Pharmacology, elected as a fellow of AICHE, and as a director in the board of AIChE. She has more than 350 publications and has been an invited speaker at numerous national and international conferences.
Dr. Ierapetritou obtained her BS from the National Technical University in Athens, Greece, her PhD from Imperial College (London, UK) in 1995 and subsequently completed her post-doctoral research at Princeton University (Princeton, NJ).

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