PMSE Officers, Councilors, and Volunteers

The Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering Division is a part of the American Chemical Society and governed by the bylaws, which can be found on the ACS website (pdf).

A list of officers, councilor and alternative councilors, members-at-large, and the rest of the Executive Committee Volunteers are listed below. See the list of former chairs and chair messages here.

Officers

Technical Programming (email)

Name	Affiliation	Department
Lucas Beagle	AV Technologies/Blue Halo
Joshua Orlicki	Army Research Laboratory	DEVCOM – Aberdeen Proving Ground
Rachel Letteri	University of Virginia	Department of Chemical Engineering

Administration

Councilors and Alternative Councilors, and Members-At-Large

Councilors and alternative councilors are listed with their three year terms.

Name	Affiliation	Email	Councilors Term
Dean Webster	North Dakota State University	[Email]	2024-2026
A. Jay Dias	Formely ExxonMobil	[Email]	2022-2024
Julie L. P. Jessop	Mississippi State University	[Email]	2022-2024	DAC – Chair, Program Enhancement Subcommittee
Christopher L. Soles	NIST	[Email]	2023-2025
Qinghuang Lin	Lintech International	[Email]	2024	Alternate
Melissa Grunlan	Texas A&M University	[Email]	2024-2026	Alternate
Michael Jaffe	NJ Innovation Institute	[Email]	2022-2024	Alternate
Michael S. Silverstein	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology	[Email]	2023-2025	Alternate

Members-at-large are listed by their years of membership and their primary affiliation.

Name	Affiliation	Email	Members At Large Term
Herdeline Ann (Digs) Ardoña	University of California Irvine	[Email]	2026-2027
Cécile Chazot	Northwestern University	[Email]	2026-2027
Paraskevi (Evi) Flouda	University of Arizona	[Email]	2026-2027
Luke Baldwin	AFRL	[Email]	2025-2026
Kaitlyn Crawford	University of Central Florida	[Email]	2025-2026
Katharina Ehrmann	Technische Universität Wien	[Email]	2025-2026

Award and Fellowship Selection

Award and Fellowship Selection Committees are listed on their respective pages.  Volunteers are listed by their PMSE role and their primary affiliation.

Award Committee	Name	Affiliation	Email
ACS Fellowship Selection Chair	Wenyi Huang	DuPont	[Email]
ACS Fellowship Selection	Michele Galizia	University of Oklahoma	[Email]
Awards and Recognitions Committee	Christopher L. Soles	NIST	[Email]
Awards and Recognitions Committee	Jennifer L. Schaefer	University of Notre Dame	[Email]
Awards and Recognitions Committee, Chair	Daniel Savin	University of Florida	[Email]
Awards and Recognitions Committee	Xi (Chelsea) Chen	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	[Email]
Awards and Recognitions Committee	Martin Conda Sheridan	University of Nebraska Medical Ctr.	[Email]
Awards and Recognitions Committee	Nagarjuna Gavvalapalli	Georgetown University	[Email]
Awards and Recognitions Committee	Ashlin Sathyan	DuPont	[Email]
Awards and Recognitions Committee	Taylor Ware	Texas A&M University	[Email]
Awards and Recognitions Committee	Joerg Werner	Boston University	[Email]
Cooperative Research Award, Chair	Howard Creel	3M Center	[Email]
Cooperative Research Award	Dean DeLongchamp	NIST	[Email]
Cooperative Research Award	Bryan D. Vogt	The Pennsylvania State University	[Email]
Distinguished Service Award, Chair	Qinghuang Lin	Lam Research Corporation	[Email]
Distinguished Service Award	Benny Freeman	University of Texas at Austin	[Email]
Distinguished Service Award	Dean Webster	North Dakota State University	[Email]
Distinguished Service Award	Melissa A. Grunlan	Texas A & M University	[Email]
Doolittle Award	Alexa S. Kuenstler	University of Illinois	[Email]
Doolittle Award	Alexa Easley	North Carolina State University	[Email]
Doolittle Award	Whitney Loo	University of Wisconsin	[Email]
Eastman Chemical Student Award, co-Chair	Kelly Burke	University of Connecticut	[Email]
Eastman Chemical Student Award, co-Chair	Tayler Hebner	Purdue University	[Email]
PMSE Global Graduate Student/Mentor Award, Co-Chair	LaShanda Korley	University of Delaware	[Email]
PMSE Global Graduate Student/Mentor Award, Co-Chair	Michael J. A. Hore	Case Western Reserve University	[Email]
Graduate Student Travel Award, Chair	Kaitlyn Crawford	University of Central Florida	[Email]
Graduate Student Travel Award	Sofia Goodrich	University of Florida	[Email]
Roy W. Tess Award, Chair	Jamil Baghdachi	Eastern Michigan University	[Email]
PMSE Fellowship Selection	Peter Johnson	SABIC	[Email]
PMSE Fellowship Selection	Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez	University of Texas	[Email]
PMSE Fellowship Selection	Christopher M. Stafford	NIST	[Email]
Early Investigator & Future Faculty	Stephanie Barbon	Dow	[Email]
Early Investigator & Future Faculty	Christian Pester	The Pennsylvania State University	[Email]
Early Investigator & Future Faculty	Adrianne Rosales	University of Texas, Austin	[Email]
Early Investigator & Future Faculty	Christopher M. Stafford	NIST	[Email]

Other Committees

Award and Fellowship Selection Committees are listed on their respective pages.  Volunteers are listed by their PMSE role and their primary affiliation.

Committee	Name	Affiliation	Email
By-Laws	Malancha Gupta	University of Southern California	[Email]
Communications	Qinghuang Lin	Lam Research Corporation	[Email]
Communications	Megan L. Robertson	University of Houston	[Email]
Communication – PMSE Corner, Chair	Bindu Krishnan	The Dow Chemical Company	[Email]
Communication – PMSE Portal, co-Chair	Hendrik Heinz	University of Colorado Boulder	[Email]
Communication – PMSE Portal, co-Chair	Huyunki Kim	3M Corporate Research Laboratory	[Email]
Communication – PMSE portal	Baxter Huntington	AFRL	[Email]
Communication – PMSE portal	Eleni Papananou	University of California – Santa Barbara	[Email]
Communication	Eileen Ernst	PMSE	[Email]
Communication	Hee Jeung Oh	Pennsylvania State University	[Email]
Communications	Eleftheria Roumeli	University of Washington	[Email]
Communications	Abhishek Shete	Dow	[Email]
Communications	Samanvaya Srivastava	University of California – Los Angeles	[Email]
Fair Practices Committee, Chair	Enrique Gomez	The Pennsylvania State University	[Email]
Fair Practices Committee	Joerg Werner	Boston University	[Email]
Education/Outreach-Student Chapters	Julie L. P. Jessop	Mississippi State University	[Email]
Education/Outreach-Student Chapters	Jason Linn	University of Minnesota – Twin Cities	[Email]
Education/Outreach- Database	Lisa S. Baugh	ExxonMobil Technology & Engineering	[Email]
Education/Outreach- Database	Meisha Shofner	Georgia Institute of Technology	[Email]
Education/Outreach-Happy Hour Coordinator	Ying Yang	University of Nevada, Reno	[Email]
Finance & Investment Chair	A. Jay Dias	Formely ExxonMobil	[Email]
Finance & Investment	Robert Hickey	Pennsylvania State University	[Email]
Historian	Lisa S. Baugh	ExxonMobil Technology & Engineering	[Email]
International Advisory Committee, Co-Chair	Zhihao Shen	Peking University	[Email]
International Advisory Committee, Co-Chair	Michael S. Silverstein	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology	[Email]
International Advisory Committee, Co-Chair	Christian Pester	The Pennsylvania State University	[Email]
International Advisory Committee, Co-Chair	Matthew Webber	University of Notre Dame	[Email]
MACRO (Macromolecular Alliance for Community, Resources, and Outreach) Co-Chair	Elizabeth S. Sterner	Lebanon Valley College	[Email]
MACRO (Macromolecular Alliance for Community, Resources, and Outreach) Co-Chair	Philip Costanzo	California Polytechnic & State University	[Email]
MACRO (Macromolecular Alliance for Community, Resources, and Outreach)	Bhavya Singhi	Zeus Industrial Products, Inc.	[Email]
MACRO (Macromolecular Alliance for Community, Resources, and Outreach)	Dominik Konkolewicz	Miami University	[Email]
Membership, Chair	Rafael Verduzco	Rice University	[Email]
Membership	Rong Yang	Cornell University	[Email]
Membership	Vikas Varshney	Air Force Research Laboratory	[Email]
Membership	Yabin Lei	International Flavors and Fragrances	[Email]
Membership	Lucas Beagle	Blue Halo	[Email]
Membership	Nazakat Ali	Punjab Tianjian U of Technology	[Email]
Panels	Christopher L. Soles	NIST	[Email]
Panels, Chair	Dhriti Nepal	Air Force Research Laboratory	[Email]
Panels	Akhilesh Gaharwar	Texas A&M University	[Email]
Panels	Jennifer L. Schaefer	University of Notre Dame	[Email]
Panels	Christopher Soles	NIST	[Email]
Symposium Funding	A. Jay Dias	Formerly ExxonMobil	[Email]
PMSE/POLY Student Chapters	Kaitlyn Crawford	University of Central Florida	[Email]
PMSE/POLY Student Chapters	Sofia Goodrich	University of Florida	[Email]
Regional Meetings, Chair	Robert Hickey	Penn State University	[Email]
Regional Meetings	Patricia Calvo	Kansas State University	[Email]
Regional Meetings	Luke Baldwin	Air Force Research Laboratories	[Email]
Regional Meetings	Reza Foudazi	University of Oklahoma	[Email]
Special Issues, Chair	Qinghuang Lin	Lam Research Corporation	[Email]
Special Issues	Jihua Chen	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	[Email]
Special Issues	Mark Kozlowski	DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory	[Email]
Special Issues	Julio Terán	North Carolina State University	[Email]
Special Issues	Gang Wang	Donghua University	[Email]
Special Issues	Beihang Yu	Lawrence Berkeley National Laborator	[Email]
Volunteer Pipeline	Jason Benkoski	The Johns Hopkins University	[Email]
Volunteer Pipeline	Sergio Granados-Focil	Clark University	[Email]
Volunteer Pipeline	Robert Hickey	Penn State University	[Email]
Webinars, Chair	Dominik Konkolewicz	Miami University	[Email]
Webinars	Michael S. Silverstein	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology	[Email]
Webinars	Dhriti Nepal	Air Force Research Laboratory	[Email]
Webinars	Thaiesha Wright	University of California, Los Angeles	[Email]
Web Presence	Peter Johnson	SABIC	[Email]
Web Presence	Hendrik Heinz	University of Colorado at Boulder	[Email]

Liaisons to other committees within ACS and outside of ACS are listed here.

Liaison To	Name	Affiliation	Email
Liaison to the Biomaterials Society	Vacant
Macromolecular (MACR) Secretariat	Javid Rzayev	University at Buffalo	[Email]
Biotechnology (BTEC Secretariat)	Jamil Baghdachi	Eastern Michigan University	[Email]
ACS Multidisciplinary Program Planning	Eva Harth	University of Houston	[Email]
YCC Liaison to PMSE	Bhavya Singhi	Zeus Industrial Products, Inc.	[Email]
Representative to the Soft Matter Association	Tim Bunning	AFRL	[Email]
Liaison to the Rubber Division	Richard Spontak	North Carolina State University	[Email]

Volunteers

Name	Affiliation	Email
Adam B. Burns	ExxonMobil Research & Engineering	[Email]
Luis Campos	Columbia University	[Email]
Gustavo Carri	ExxonMobil Research & Engineering	[Email]
Kevin Cavicchi	University of Akron	[Email]
Honggang Cui	The Johns Hopkins University	[Email]
Cher Davis	NIST	[Email]
Chris Ellison	University of Minnesota	[Email]
Todd Emrick	University of Massachusetts	[Email]
John W. Gilmer	King University	[Email]
Padma Gopalan	University of Wisconsin	[Email]
Jaime C. Grunlan	Texas A & M University	[Email]
Zhiqun Lin	National University of Singapore	[Email]
David Lohse	Retired	[Email]
Kenny Mineart	Bucknell University	[Email]
Anjali Patil	Chanel, Inc.	[Email]
Vivek Prabhu	NIST	[Email]
Theodore Provder	Polymer and Coatings Consultants, LLC	[Email]
Arjun Raghuraman	Dow	[Email]
Yuanqiao Rao	Dow	[Email]
Abhishek Roy	National Renewable Energy Laboratory	[Email]
Chad Snyder	NIST	[Email]
Shu Yang	University of Pennsylvania	[Email]