Ruilan Guo

Ruilan Guo is a Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Notre Dame (USA). She earned her B.E. and M.E. degrees in Materials Science & Engineering from Beijing University of Chemical Technology (China) and completed her Ph.D. at the Georgia Institute of Technology (USA). She was a postdoctoral fellow with the late Professor James E. McGrath at Virginia Tech before joining the University of Notre Dame. Prof. Guo’s research focuses on the design and development of functional polymer membranes for energy-efficient chemical separations. She is the recipient of the U.S. Department of Energy Early CAREER Award, Inaugural Class of Influential Researchers by I&EC Research, MSDE Emerging Investigator, the Frank M. Freimann Endowed Professorship, and the AIChE FRI/Neil Yeoman Innovation Award. Prof. Guo currently serves as Deputy Co-Director and Thrust Lead of CISTAR, a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center. She is also an Editor of Polymer (Elsevier) and member of the Editorial Advisory Board of ACS Applied Energy Materials (2019-2022), Frontiers in Environmental Science and Industrial Chemistry & Materials.