Myers Founder’s Chair in Chemical Engineering
Professor and Vice Chair for Graduate Education
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of California Santa Barbara

Education
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California San Francisco, 2005-2007
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, 2005
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 2000

Address
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of California Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5080

Contact information
Office: (805) 893-4346, Engineering II 3321
Fax: (805) 893-4731
Email: shell@engineering.ucsb.edu

Honors And Awards

  • CoMSEF Impact Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2017
  • Invited Lecture, 14th International Conference on Properties and Phase Equilibria for Product and Process Design (PPEPPD), 2016
  • Dudley A. Saville Lectureship, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, 2015
  • Distinguished Teaching Award, UCSB Academic Senate, 2014
  • Named among 80 seminal papers in the J. of Chemical Physics’ 80th Anniversary Collection, 2013
  • Outstanding Faculty Mentor, CSEP programs, CNSI, UCSB, 2013
  • Outstanding Faculty Award, UCSB Housing & Residential Services, 2012
  • Sloan Research Fellowship, 2012
  • Northrop Grumman Excellence in Teaching Award, 2011
  • Hellman Family Faculty Fellowship, 2010
  • ACS PRF Doctoral New Investigator Award, 2010
  • NSF CAREER Award, 2009
  • Outstanding Faculty Award, UCSB Housing & Residential Services, 2009
  • Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award, 2007
  • Porter Ogbus Jacobus Honorific Fellowship (Princeton), 2004
  • Ticona Outstanding Second Proposition Award (Princeton ChE), 2004
  • William R. Schowalter Travel Award (Princeton ChE), 2003
  • Ticona Excellence in Teaching Assistantship Award (Princeton ChE), 2002
  • Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 2000
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship offer (declined), 2000
  • Gordon Wu Fellowship (Princeton), 2000
  • Andrew Carnegie Scholar (Carnegie Mellon), 1999
  • Tau Beta Pi, 1998

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