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Team

Principal Investigator

Blake J. Rasor
Assistant Professor
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

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Education

Postdoc – Biochemistry & Synthetic Metabolism, MPI Marburg (2025)
Ph.D. – Chemical & Biological Engineering, Northwestern University (2023)
B.S. – Biology & Microbiology, Miami University (2017)

Professional Experience

  • Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University (2025-present)
  • EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology (2023-2025)
  • NDSEG Fellow, Northwestern University (2017-2023)

Honors and Awards

  • Miami University 18 of the Last 9 Award (2023)
  • EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship (2023)
  • Schmidt Science Fellows – Finalist (2023)
  • AIChE Division 15 Oral Presentation Award (2022)
  • Distinguished Graduate Researcher Award in Chemical & Biological Engineering (2022)
  • Brady Fellowship in Ethics and Civic Life (2019)
  • DOW Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge Award (2018)
  • National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (2018)
  • NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2018)
  • Orton K. Stark Award (2017)
  • Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship (2016)
  • Arnold and Mabel Beckman Scholarship (2016)
  • National Merit Scholarship (2013)

Graduate Students

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Undergraduates

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