Tours were conducted in the lab spaces of Herman F. Mark Professor Elisa Riedo, Senior Vice Dean & Alstadt Lord Mark Professor Eray Aydil (Pulkita Jain), Professor André D. Taylor and Assistant Professor Nathalie Pinkerton, Ph.D. (Rachel Pollard). Chairs were also shown the New York University Nanofabrication Cleanroom by Director & Associate Professor Davood Shahrjerdi. They were also shown the Urban Future Lab by Director of Carbon to Value Initiative and Interim Managing Director Frederic Clerc.
Welcome remarks for the roundtable were given by Juan J. de Pablo, NYU Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Executive Vice President for Global Science and Technology, and NYU Tandon Executive Dean.
Donald F. Othmer Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering & Sustainable Engineering Initiative Miguel Modestino and NYU Associate Vice Provost for Research Annette ‘Nina’ Gray moderated the roundtable. Faculty, industry & VC panelists included Susan Schofer of SOSV / HAX, Andrew Chang of Activate, Marissa Beatty of Turnover Labs, Minh Tran of Heliotrope Photonics, Azade Hosseini, PhD of NYU Innovation Venture Fund, and Herman F. Mark Professor Elisa Riedo (who is also co-founder of Glaucus).
Roundtable participants included Justin Notestein of Northwestern University, Ive Hermans of The Johns Hopkins University, Shikha Nangia of Syracuse University, Junhang Dong of University of Cincinnati, Millicent Sullivan of University of Delaware, Sanat Kumar of Columbia University, Scott Banta of Columbia University, Hemant Pendse of University of Maine, Rajesh Khare of Texas Tech University, Christopher Kitchens of Villanova University, Levicky Rastislav of NYU Tandon, Dilip Gersappe of Stony Brook University.
