Bryan Boudouris

Bryan W. Boudouris is the Vice President for Research & Economic Development and a professor in the Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering at The University of Alabama, roles he has held since April 2024. Prior to Alabama, he was the R. Norris and Eleanor Shreve Professor of Chemical Engineering in the Charles D. Davidson School of Chemical Engineering and a professor (by courtesy) in the Department of Chemistry at Purdue University where he also served as the Associate Vice President for Strategic Interdisciplinary Research. From 2020-2022, he served on an Intergovernmental Personnel Act assignment as a Program Director in the Division of Materials Research at the National Science Foundation. Born and raised in Illinois, he received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2004. After receiving his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 2009, he conducted postdoctoral research from 2009 to 2011 at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Since starting his independent career at Purdue University in 2011, he has been the recipient of many awards including the AFOSR YIP award, the DARPA YFA, the NSF CAREER Award, the AIChE Owens Corning Early Career Award, the Saville Lectureship at Princeton University, and the John H. Dillon Medal from the APS.