Robert W. Vaughan Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
The yearly special lectures honoring Robert W. Vaughan recognize outstanding research and are held during the winter or spring quarters.
Robert W. Vaughan was at the center of developments of high-resolution, solid-state NMR techniques at the time of his untimely death in 1979. At that time, Dr. Vaughan was very early into his career. His research has contributed much to our understanding of hydrogen-bonding in organic and inorganic solids, chemical bonding in metallic hydrides and metal carbonyl clusters, motion and structure in polymers, and motion and structure of surface hydroxyl groups on oxide catalysts.
The Vaughan Lectures in Chemical Engineering are made possible by the Robert W. Vaughan memorial fund established by the friends and associates of Robert Vaughan. The objective of the Vaughan Lectureship is to honor distinguished young scientists in any of the fields of Chemical Engineering, Chemical Physics or Applied Physics.
Our 2025 Vaughan Lecturer is Markita Landry of UC Berkeley.
Past Speakers
| Name | Institution | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Alexander Pines | University of California, Berkeley | 1981 |
| Alkiviades C. Payatakes | University of Houston | 1982 |
| Manfred Morari | University of Wisconsin | 1983 |
| Robert E. Cohen | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1984 |
| Matthew Tirrell | University of Minnesota | 1985 |
| Ignacio Grossmann | Carnegie Mellon University | 1986 |
| Robert A. Brown | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1987 |
| T. Michael Duncan | AT&T Bell Labs | 1989 |
| Mark Davis | Virginia Polytechnic Institute | 1990 |
| Sangtae Kim, | University of Wisconsin | 1991 |
| Pablo Debenedetti | Princeton University | 1992 |
| Charles F. Zukoski IV | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 1993 |
| Doros N. Theodorou | University of California, Berkeley | 1994 |
| Frank S. Bates | University of Minnesota | 1995 |
| Thomas F. Kuech | University of Wisconsin at Madison | 1996 |
| Chaitan S. Khosla | Stanford University | 1997 |
| Norman J. Wagner | University of Delaware | 1998 |
| George Georgiou | University of Texas at Austin | 1999 |
| Arup K. Chakraborty | University of California, Berkeley | 2000 |
| Nicholas L. Abbott | University of Wisconsin at Madison | 2001 |
| Daniel A. Hammer | University of Pennsylvania | 2002 |
| Joan F. Brennecke | University of Notre Dame | 2003 |
| Spyros N. Pandis | Carnegie Mellon University | 2004 |
| Roger T. Bonnecaze | University of Texas at Austin | 2005 |
| Michael Tsapatsis | University of Minnesota | 2006 |
| Michael W. Deem | Rice University | 2007 |
| David V. Schaffer | University of California, Berkeley | 2008 |
| Christopher A. Voigt | University of California, San Francisco | 2009 |
| Christopher W. Jones | Georgia Institute of Technology | 2010 |
| Shekhar Garde | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy | 2011 |
| Rachel Segalman | University of California, Berkeley | 2012 |
| Michael Gordon | University of California, Santa Barbara | 2013 |
| Athanasios Nenes | Georgia Institute of Technology | 2014 |
| Yi Tang | University of California, Los Angeles | 2015 |
| Michael Strano | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2016 |
| Todd Squires | University of California, Santa Barbara | 2017 |
| Clifford Brangwynne | Princeton University | 2018 |
| Chang C. Liu | University of Irvine, California | 2019 |
| Nga Lee (Sally) Ng | Georgia Institute of Technology | 2021 |
| Bryan D. McCloskey | University of California, Berkeley | 2022 |
| Elizabeth Nance | University of Washington | 2023 |
| Kevin Dorfman | University of Minnesota | 2024 |
| Markita Landry | University of California, Berkeley | 2025 |