Juan J. de Pablo


Juan J. de Pablo, a chemical engineer, is New York University’s inaugural executive vice president for global science and technology, and the executive dean of the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. He assumed those posts on October 1, 2024. Prior to that, he was Liew Family professor in the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago and has served as senior scientist at Argonne National Laboratory. In 2018, he was appointed Vice President for National Laboratories at the University of Chicago, a title which later expanded to include Science Strategy, Innovation and Global Initiatives in 2020. In 2021, he became Executive Vice President for Science, Innovation, National Laboratories and Global Initiatives at the University of Chicago. He is known for his research on the thermophysical properties of soft materials and was the co-director of the NIST supported Center for Hierarchical Materials Design. and director of the UW-Madison Materials Research Science and Engineering Center.
He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.

Education

De Pablo earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. After completing his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, under the advisement of John Prausnitz, De Pablo conducted his postdoctoral research at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland.

Honors and awards

He was elected into the National Academy of Sciences in 2022, and was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2016 for design of macromolecular products and processes via scientific computation. He is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Physical Society and an honorary member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. He is recipient of the AIChE Charles M.A. Stine Award for outstanding contributions to the field of materials science and engineering, the DuPont Medal for excellence in nutrition and health science, and the American Physical Society 2018 Polymer Physics prize He holds over 20 patents on multiple technologies.