John L. Anderson

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Dr. John L. Anderson is the President of Illinois Institute of Technology and Professor of Chemical Engineering. He received his BChE degree from the University of Delaware and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois. He served on the faculty (Chemical Engineering and Applied Mathematics) of Cornell University before joining the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University in 1976, where he served until 2004. At Carnegie Mellon he was University Professor of Chemical Engineering and held the positions Director of Biomedical Engineering (1980-85), Head of the Chemical Engineering Department (1983-94), and Dean of the College of Engineering (1996-2004). He was Provost and University Vice President at Case Western Reserve University during 2004-2007.

Dr. Anderson is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and has chaired the NAE section for Chemical Engineering as well as several study committees of the National Research Council. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering. He received the Professional Progress Award of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. He has held visiting professorships at MIT, University of Melbourne and Landbouwuniversiteit Wageningen (the Netherlands). He has published in areas of membrane separations, electrokinetics, dynamics of polymer chains and colloidal particles in porous media and near surfaces, and fluid dynamics.

Dr. Anderson was associate editor of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research between 1988-2007, and is or has been a member of advisory boards at numerous universities. He has served as the Vice-Chair of the National Engineering Deans Council.