Team
Principal Investigator
Blake J. Rasor
Assistant Professor
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
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Additional Affiliations
- Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing Faculty Cluster
- Biotechnology Program
- Microbiology Graduate Program
Education
Postdoc – Biochemistry & Synthetic Metabolism, MPI Marburg (2025)
Ph.D. – Chemical & Biological Engineering, Northwestern University (2023)
B.S. – Biology & Microbiology, Miami University (2017)
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)
Teaching
- CHE 205 – Chemical Process Principles
Graduate Students
Ellie Kornreich
Alexa Wiwi
Khing Masaya-anon
Undergraduates
Lillie O’Neill
Sophia Johnson
Allison Phillips
Kaitlyn Tran
Eliza Greer