NYU Tandon Professor Accepts Leadership Posts in the Chemical Engineering World
Assistant Professor Ryan L. Hartman, who oversees the Flow Chemistry with Microsystems Laboratory at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, has been elected to a five-year term as the programming chair of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Catalysis and Reaction Engineering (CRE) division, the largest subgroup in the national organization.
Hartman’s duties will include serving on the CRE executive board, setting the agenda for the division’s sessions at the AIChE annual meeting and ensuring that the 70 CRE sessions held during the event feature high-quality research with the correct balance of core topics, current themes, and emerging trends.
Hartman was elected on the strength of his service to the AIChE as well as for his reputation in both academia and industry. His area of expertise involves continuous-flow technology, which streamlines the chemical reaction and purification process safely, cleanly, and cost-effectively and is generally employed for large-scale industrial purposes. Using continuous-flow micro-reactors, Hartman is bringing those advantages to laboratories, and his theoretical models promise enormous value in the pharmaceutical industry, energy sector, and elsewhere. Working “in flow” in the lab ultimately makes it much easier for manufacturers to scale up the process and could potentially expedite the discovery, development, and manufacture of fine chemicals, materials, and pharmaceuticals.