Bryan BeckinghamDr. Bryan Beckingham is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Auburn University (AU), USA. At Auburn he serves on the Faculty Senate (2017-present), and on the Steering and Educational Committees of the Center for Polymers and Advanced Coposites. Prior to joining Auburn University in 2016, he received his B.S in Chemical Engineering from Clarkson University in 2007, his Ph.D. degree in Chemical and Materials Engineering from Princeton University in 2013, and was a Materials Postdoctoral Fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a member of the Material Science Division and the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis from 2013-2015. Dr. Beckingham is a recipient of a US Department of Energy's Early Career Award and is among the Industrial Engineering & Chemistry Research's 2021 Class of Influential Researchers - The Americas. His research group focuses on leveraging synthetic polymer chemistry and materials characterization to inform the design of novel polymer materials for target applications, with particular emphasis on polymer membranes for fuel cells and solar fuels devices, hierarchically structured matter for applications in energy and water, and additive manufacturing polymer functional polymer systems. Read More Read Less