Arup K. Chakraborty
	Robert T. Haslam Professor of Chemical Engineering Professor of Chemistry Professor of Biological Engineering
	Department of Chemical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Room E19-502C 77 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge MA 02139 USA	Phone: 617.253.3890 Fax: 617-258-5766 Email: arupc@mit.edu Web: http://web.mit.edu/akcgroup

Ph.D., University of Delaware, 1988
B. of Tech., Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 1983

Honors and Awards
Distinguished Alumnus Award, Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur (2008)
Elected Fellow of American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2007)
E.O. Lawrence Award for Life Sciences (2007)
NIH Director’s Pioneer Award (2006)
Presidential Citation for Outstanding Achievement, Univ. of Delaware (2005)
Wilber Lecture, Rice University (2005)
Doraiswamy Lecturer, Iowa State Univ. and National Chemical Laboratory, India (2005)
Dept. of Chem. Eng. Teaching Award, UC Berkeley (2005)
Engineering Foundation Endowed Lectureship, U.T. Austin (2005)
Election to National Academy of Engineering (2004)
Professional Progress Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (2004)
Merck Collaboratus Lectures, Rutgers University (2004)
Trotter Lecturer, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (2004)
Chemcon Distinguished Lecturer Award, Bhubaneswar, India (2003)
Robert W. Vaughan Memorial Lecturer, Caltech (2000)
Research Professor, Miller Institute for Basic Science, Berkeley (1999-00)
Featured Speaker, NAE Frontiers of Engineering Meeting (1999)
Allan P. Colburn Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (1996)
Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (1994)
AIChE, Berkeley Student Chapter, Distinguished Teaching (1996-97)
National Young Investigator Award (1992-1997)
Allan P. Colburn Memorial Lecture, University of Delaware (1993)
Royal Academy of Engineering (U.K.), ICI Fellowship (1993- 1998)
Shell Young Faculty Fellow (1989-1992)
Best Review Paper, Intnl. Conf. on Polymer/Solid Interfaces, Belgium (1991)

Current Research
Selected Publications and Lectures