The Thiele Lectureship was established in 1986 to honor Dr. Thiele’s association with Notre Dame’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. The Lectureship is intended to recognize outstanding research contributions by a younger member of the chemical engineering profession. This lecture occurs annually each fall. Previous lecturers in the series are listed below.
- 2022 Ying Diao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 2021 Ashlee Ford Versypt, University of Buffalo
- 2020 No Thiele speaker this year due to COVID.
- 2019 Bradley Olsen, MIT
- 2018 Jodie Lutkenhaus, Texas A&M University
- 2017 Paul J. Dauenhauer, University of Minnesota
- 2016 Thomas H. Epps, III, University of Delaware
- 2015 Samuel K. Sia, Columbia University
- 2013 Suljo Linic, University of Michigan
- 2012 Amy E. Herr, University of California at Berkeley
- 2011 Rachel A. Segalman, University of California at Berkeley
- 2010 Yiannis Kaznessis, University of Minnesota
- 2009 Michael S. Strano, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 2008 Thomas M. Truskett, University of Texas at Austin
- 2007 Lynn Loo, Princeton University
- 2006 Patrick S. Doyle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 2005 Annelise E. Barron, Northwestern University
- 2004 William H. Green Jr., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 2003 Linda Broadbelt, Northwestern University
- 2002 Lynn Russell, Princeton University
- 2001 Richard D. Braatz, University of Illinois
- 2000 Julia Kornfield, California Institute of Technology
- 1999 Eric Stefan G. Shaqfeh, Stanford University
- 1998 Chaitan Khosla, Stanford University
- 1997 Jackie Y. Ying, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 1996 Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos, Cornell University
- 1995 Henry C. Foley, University of Delaware
- 1994 Doros N. Theodorou, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 1993 Charles F. Zukoski, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 1992 Alice P. Gast, Stanford University
- 1991 Vemuri Balakotaiah, University of Houston
- 1990 Gerald G. Fuller, Stanford University
- 1989 Bob Brown, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 1988 Mark A. Barteau, University of Delaware
- 1987 Manfred Morari, California Institute of Technology
- 1986 Douglas A. Lauffenburger, University of Pennsylvania