The School of Chemical Engineering is pleased to announce that Dr. Bryan Boudouris has been named the Robert and Sally Weist Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering. At Purdue University, named professorship titles recognize outstanding contributions of faculty members to their academic disciplines.

Dr. Boudouris received his PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota in 2009. He joined the School of Chemical Engineering at Purdue in 2011 as an assistant professor. He was promoted to associate professor in 2016 as well as being named the Director of the School's Professional MS Program.

Dr. Boudouris leads the Polymers for Optoelectronics and Widespread Energy Research (POWER) Laboratory which examines how control of macromolecular design affects the nanoscale structure of homopolymers and block polymer materials. His work provides a handle by which to improve the performance of a variety of thin film applications. Though still early in his career, Dr. Boudouris has authored more than 40 publications and has four pending patents. He has made more than 25 presentations at university and industry seminars and mentored 19 graduate students and 27 undergraduates.

In external recognition, Dr. Boudouris is the recipient of an NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award, a DARPA Young Faculty Award, an AFOSR Young Investigator Research Program Award, and has received numerous invitations to participate in lectureships and programs. Internally he has been honored with the College of Engineering Exceptional Early Career Teaching Award, membership in the Purdue Innovators Hall of Fame, a Purdue University Teaching for Tomorrow Award, and he was selected as an IMPACT Faculty Fellow at Purdue. Dr. Boudouris is, or has been, a reviewer for more than 20 journals, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the Royal Society, The Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource and the Molecular Foundry at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

The Robert and Sally Weist Associate Professorship was created thanks to a donation by Robert (BSChE '62) and Sally Weist.