Associate Professor Ryan Lively Wins AIChE’s 2020 Colburn Prize

Ryan P. Lively, an associate professor and the John H. Woody Faculty Fellow in Georgia Tech’s School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE), is the 2020 winner of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ (AIChE) Allan P. Colburn Award for Excellence in Publications by a Young Member of the Institute.

First presented in 1945, the Allan P. Colburn Award for Excellence in Publications by a Young Member of the Institute is awarded to an AIChE member in their early career. The award is sponsored by E. I. DuPont de Nemours and Company, Inc.  Each year, the award recognizes outstanding progress in the field of chemical engineering by one researcher in any area of chemical engineering research who is within 12 years of completing their PhD at the end of the calendar year in which the award is presented. One of the most prestigious awards an early career chemical engineer can be receive, the Colburn award recognizes significant advances and contributions to the field of chemical engineering. Read more about it here.