Dean New York University, Tandon School of Engineering | Brooklyn, New York We are pleased to announce the appointment of Juan de Pablo as Executive Dean of the Tandon School of Engineering and the Inaugural Executive Vice President for Global Science and Technology at New York University (NYU).Currently the Liew Family Professor of Molecular Engineering and Executive Vice President for Science, Innovation, National Laboratories, and Global Initiatives at the University of Chicago and senior scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, Dr. de Pablo will join NYU on October 1, 2024.Dr. de Pablo brings a nationally recognized record of leading far-reaching, strategic science initiatives; experience in working across disciplines, schools, and national laboratories to advance science in cross-cutting and innovative ways; and his own distinguished record of scholarly accomplishment. He first joined the University of Chicago in 2012 as a faculty member in the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and has been deeply involved in the school’s development. Previously, he was the Curler Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Professor de Pablo is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Mexican Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Physical Society, and the Royal Society of Chemistry. He is also the recipient of the Polymer Physics Prize from the American Physical Society (2018), the DuPont Medal for Excellence in Nutrition and Health Sciences (2016), the Intel Patterning Science Award (2015), and the Charles Stine Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (2011), among other distinctions. Read the full press release here.John Muckle led this search with Elizabeth Weithman, Melissa DePretto-Behan, and Ethan Thomas.
