Boudouris joins OEVPRP as associate vice president

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Theresa Mayer, executive vice president for research and partnerships, is welcoming Bryan W. Boudouris, a Purdue professor in the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering and (by courtesy) professor in the Department of Chemistry, to the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research and Partnerships as associate vice president for research, strategic interdisciplinary research.

Boudouris will head OEVPRP’s new Strategic Interdisciplinary Research Division, which will advance Purdue’s goals and priorities in research and partnerships through the development of proposals, concentrated teams and long-range planning and through investment in areas of strategic priority for external funding. Under Boudouris’ leadership, the division will also develop initiatives and services to enhance Purdue’s competitiveness for prestigious awards and will collaborate with campus, industry and government partners.

Boudouris brings to the position a broad perspective on research, gained from experiences such as his work as a National Science Foundation intergovernmental personnel act program director in the Division of Materials Research from 2000-22, from his active research program in polymer science and soft materials, and from his participation in the Mi-Bio program at Purdue, which focused on materials design for bioelectronics and combined researchers in multiple disciplines from across four colleges.

As associate vice president for research, Boudouris holds a vision of interdisciplinary research that combines the physical sciences, the health sciences and engineering with social, behavioral and economic sciences to guide and evaluate technological innovations and oversee their development as beneficial tools for society.

At NSF, Boudouris managed two portfolios with projects that cut across the directorates, with investigations in computer science, manufacturing and engineering, chemical and biological engineering, materials research and solid-state physics. In his work with the NSF Materials Genome Initiative, Boudouris pressed for research to impact the community through continuing education and workforce development, enlisting social, behavioral and economic scientists to implement and evaluate the success of those programs. Boudouris also aided in the internal development of programs associated with the NSF Technology, Innovation and Partnerships directorate.

Boudouris joined Purdue in 2011, working his way up from assistant to associate to full professor and accruing numerous awards, including the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program Award, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Young Faculty Award, the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the Owens Corning Early Career Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the Saville Lectureship at Princeton University and the John H. Dillon Medal from the American Physical Society.

Boudouris received his BS in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2004. After receiving his PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota in 2009, he conducted postdoctoral research from 2009-11 at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. 

Writer/Media contact: Mary Martialay, mmartial@purdue.edu

Source: Bryan Boudouris, boudouris@purdue.edu