Bryan W. Boudouris

Dr. Bryan W. Boudouris currently serves as the Vice President for Research & Economic Development at The University of Alabama and Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering, following an illustrious career at Purdue University where he held the R. Norris and Eleanor Shreve Professorship. After earning his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2004 and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 2009, he completed postdoctoral research at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory before joining Purdue in 2011. His groundbreaking research spans polymer chemistry and physics, with particular focus on developing optoelectronically active polymers, functional block polymer self-assembly, and materials for quantum applications and national security. His exceptional contributions have earned him numerous prestigious awards, including the APS John H. Dillon Medal, AIChE Owens Corning Early Career Award, NSF CAREER Award, DARPA Young Faculty Award, and AFOSR Young Investigator Award. As a co-founder of the water purification company Anfiro, Inc., and through his extensive research publications, he has significantly impacted fields ranging from bioelectronic sensing to water purification, while serving two years as a program director at the National Science Foundation in the Division of Materials Research.