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Christy Payne, PE, Ph.D.

    Adjunct Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering

    Contact

    (703) 292-2895

    Appointments

    2018 – present: Program Director, Molecular Separations, National Science Foundation

    2018: Acting Program Director, Engineering of Biomedical Systems and Disability and Rehabilitation Engineering, National Science Foundation

    2017 – present: Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Kentucky

    2017 – 2018: Associate Program Director, National Science Foundation

    2012 – 2017: Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky

    2013 – 2017: August T. Larsson Guest Researcher, Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences

    2012 – 2017: Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Kentucky

    2011 – 2012: Research Scientist, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

    2011: Postdoctoral Research Associate, NREL

    2008 – 2011: Process Engineer, URS

    2005: DOE Computational Science Intern, Sandia National Laboratory

    2003 – 2007: DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellow, Vanderbilt University

    2002 – 2006: IBM Fellow, Vanderbilt University


    Education

    Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 2007

    B.S. Chemical Engineering, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN 2002


    Research Interests:

    Biotechnology

    Chemical process technology

    Enzyme structure-function relationships

    Molecular modeling

    Molecular thermodynamics