Green chemistry,similar to sustainable chemistry or circular chemistry,is an area of chemistry and chemical engineering focused on the design of products and processes that minimize or eliminate the use and generation of hazardous substances. While environmental chemistry focuses on the effects of polluting chemicals on nature,green chemistry focuses on the environmental impact of chemistry,including lowering consumption of nonrenewable resources and technological approaches for preventing pollution.
Menachem Elimelech is the Sterling Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at Yale University. Elimelech is the only professor from an engineering department at Yale to be awarded the Sterling professorship since its establishment in 1920. Elimelech moved from the University of California,Los Angeles (UCLA) to Yale University in 1998 and founded Yale's Environmental Engineering program.
Angela K. Wilson is an American scientist and former (2022) President of the American Chemical Society. She currently serves as the John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of Chemistry,associate dean for strategic initiatives in the College of Natural Sciences,and director of the MSU Center for Quantum Computing,Science,and Engineering (MSU-Q) at Michigan State University.
Paul T. Anastas is an American scientist,inventor,author,entrepreneur,professor,and public servant. He is the Director of Yale University's Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering,Previously he served as the Science Advisor to the United States Environmental Protection Agency as well as the Agency's Assistant Administrator for Research and Development,appointed by President Barack Obama.
Paula Therese Hammond is an Institute Professor and the Vice Provost for Faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She was the first woman and person of color appointed as head of the Chemical Engineering department. Her laboratory designs polymers and nanoparticles for drug delivery and energy-related applications including batteries and fuel cells.
Sharon Hammes-Schiffer is a physical chemist who has contributed to theoretical and computational chemistry. She is currently a Sterling Professor of Chemistry at Yale University. She has served as senior editor and deputy editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry and advisory editor for Theoretical Chemistry Accounts. As of 1 January 2015 she is editor-in-chief of Chemical Reviews.
CatherineJ. Murphy is an American chemist and materials scientist,and is the Larry Faulkner Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). The first woman to serve as the head of the department of chemistry at UIUC,Murphy is known for her work on nanomaterials,specifically the seed-mediated synthesis of gold nanorods of controlled aspect ratio. She is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,National Academy of Sciences,and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019.
John Charles Warner is an American chemist,educator,and entrepreneur,best known as one of the founders of the field of green chemistry. Warner worked in industry for nearly a decade as a researcher at Polaroid Corporation,before moving to academia where he worked in various positions at University of Massachusetts Boston and Lowell. Warner is co-founder,President,and Chief Technology Officer at the Warner-Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry,as well as co-founder and President of Beyond Benign. He is the recipient of the 2014 Perkin Medal,widely acknowledged as the highest honor in American industrial chemistry.
The contributions of women in climate change have received increasing attention in the early 21st century. Feedback from women and the issues faced by women have been described as "imperative" by the United Nations and "critical" by the Population Reference Bureau. A report by the World Health Organization concluded that incorporating gender-based analysis would "provide more effective climate change mitigation and adaptation."
Omowunmi "Wunmi" A. Sadik is a Nigerian professor,chemist,and inventor working at New Jersey Institute of Technology. She has developed microelectrode biosensors for detection of drugs and explosives and is working on the development of technologies for recycling metal ions from waste,for use in environmental and industrial applications. In 2012,Sadik co-founded the non-profit Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization.
Janet Gordon Hering is the former Director of the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology and Professor emeritus of Biogeochemistry at ETH Zurich and EPFL. She works on the biogeochemical cycling of trace elements in water and the management of water infrastructure.
Sherine O. Obare is the dean of the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. She works on nanomaterials for sensing and drug delivery.
Jodie L. Lutkenhaus is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University who develops redox active polymers for energy storage and smart coatings. In 2019 Lutkenhaus and Karen L. Wooley demonstrated the world's first biodegradable peptide battery. Lutkenhaus is a World Economic Forum Young Scientist.
Ying Shirley Meng is a Singaporean-American materials scientist and academic. She is a professor at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago and Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science (ACCESS) chief scientist at Argonne National Laboratory. Meng is the author and co-author of more than 300 peer-reviewed journal articles,two book chapter and six patents. She serves on the executive committee for battery division at the Electrochemical Society and she is the Editor-in-Chief for MRS Energy &Sustainability.
Fengqi You is a professor and holds the Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Chair at Cornell University in the United States. His research focuses on systems engineering and data science. According to Google Scholar,his h-index is 82.
Walter Leitner is a German chemist,the director of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion heading the department "Molecular Catalysis" as well as a university lecturer at the RWTH Aachen University,where he holds the position of chair for technical chemistry and petrochemistry.
Anjelica L. Gonzalez is a biomedical engineer,scientist,Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Yale University,and is part of the Vascular Biology and Therapeutics Program. Her work focuses primarily on biomimetic materials,or the development of materials that mimic human organs,to study how drugs and other medical interventions can reverse tissue damage caused by environmental pollutants,inflammation,and diseases. She is also the principal investigator for the "PremieBreathe" device which has developed a low-cost device designed to save the lives of premature babies in settings that lack safe respiratory devices.
Manjusri Misra is an Indian engineer. She is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Biocomposites at the University of Guelph's School of Engineering. Misra is also the lead scientist at U of G's Bioproducts Discovery and Development Centre and a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Ann Marie Grover Carlton is an American academic working as a professor of chemistry at the University of California,Irvine,with expertise in atmospheric chemistry. She is a reviewing editor for the journal Science,and the winner of multiple awards and fellowships,notably the quadrennial Roger Revelle Fellowship for Global Stewardship from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In this fellowship,she advised the Biden administration on climate and the environment in the Office of Science and Technology Policy,beginning in September 2021. Early in the COVID-19 pandemic,she was a proponent of the theory of airborne transmission of the virus,consequently appearing as an expert guest on NPR. She is the scientific leader on the Southern Oxidant &Aerosol Study (SOAS),the largest U.S. atmospheric chemistry field project in decades,for which the short documentary Skycatcher was made.
Desirée Plata is an American environmental engineer known for her work in the fields of sustainability and energy in both research and industrial settings. Currently an associate professor at MIT,she is also the co-founder of methane conversion startup Nth-Cycle,in addition to informally advising other sustainability related companies.
