Julio M. Ottino

Julio M. Ottino

Dr. Julio M. Ottino is currently Dean of the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Northwestern University and holds the titles of Distinguished Robert R. McCormick Institute Professor and Walter P. Murphy Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering. He was the founder and co-director of the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems and was Chairman of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering during 1992-2000. Ottino’s research has appeared on the covers of Nature, Science, Scientific American, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the US and other publications and has impacted fields as diverse as fluid dynamics, granular dynamics, microfluidics, geophysical sciences, and nonlinear dynamics and chaos. He was an Advisor to Unilever, a member of the Technical Board of Dow Chemical and the Science Board of AkzoNobel, and was a member of the International Review of Engineering in the UK. Dr. Ottino received several national awards including the Alpha Chi Sigma Award and William H. Walker of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the Fluid Dynamics Prize from the American Physical Society. In 2008, he was selected by the AIChE as one of the “One Hundred Engineers of the Modern Era” and has given numerous named lectureships, including the Lacey Lectures at Caltech, the Corrsin Lecture in Johns Hopkins, and the Danckwerts Lecture in England. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Sigma Xi Lecturer, and is a Fellow of APS, a Member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Personal
Current Position
Teaching and Research Positions
Honors and Lectureships
Main Professional Activities (last five years)
Boards and Advising Activities (last five years)
Publications in Refereed Journals
Abstracts, Professional Meeting Presentations, and Proceedings
Invited Lectures to University and Industry
Industrial Courses Taught
Funding and Advising


Personal

US citizen (naturalized March 21, 1991, Northampton, Massachusetts).
Born in La Plata, Argentina.
Office phone: 847-491-3558.
E-mail: jm-ottino@northwestern.edu
Education
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 1979.
Chemical Engineering Diploma, National University of La Plata, Argentina, 1974.
Executive Program, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 1995.

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Current Position

Dean, R.R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
R.R. McCormick Institute Professor, Northwestern University, 2000-present.
Walter P. Murphy Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, 1991-present.

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Teaching and Research Positions

Co-Director, The Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, 2004-2005.
Chair, Department of Chemical Engineering, Northwestern University, 1992-2001.
Professor of Chemical Engineering, Northwestern University, 1991-present.
George T. Piercy Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Sciences, University of Minnesota, 1998.
Senior Research Fellow, Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University, 1990.
Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1986-1991.
Chevron Visiting Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 1986.
Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1983-1986.
Adjunct Professor, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1979-1991.
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1979-1983.
Instructor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1978-1979.

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Honors and Lectureships

2006 Dean’s Distinguished Lecture, College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, University of Vermont
2006 Reilly Lecturer, University of Notre Dame
2003 Member American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2003 Robb Distinguished Lecture in Chemical Engineering Science, Penn State University
2002 Ernest W. Thiele Award (AIChE, Chicago section)
2001 William H. Walker Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers
2001 John S. Guggenheim Fellowship
2001 Paul J. Flory Lecturer, Stanford University
1999 Danckwerts Memorial Lecture, London, England
1997 Member, National Academy of Engineering
1996 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
1996 Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer (1997-1999)
1996 SON Lecture (Foundation for Chemical Research, The Netherlands)
1994 Alpha Chi Sigma Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers
1994 William N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
1994 College of Engineering Centennial Speaker, University of Maryland
1993 Fellow, American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Mechanics
1991 Fifth Stanley Corrsin Lectureship in Fluid Mechanics, The Johns Hopkins University
1989 Merck Sharp & Dohme Lecturer, University of Puerto Rico
1989 Finalist Scientific Prize, Art for Science, LV-MH, Paris, France
1988 University Fellow, University of Massachusetts
1987 Allan P. Colburn Memorial Lectureship, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware
1984 Presidential Young Investigator Award (NSF)
1982 Outstanding Junior Faculty Scholar Award (University of Massachusetts)

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Main Professional Activities (last five years)

AIChE Journal, Founding Editor Perspectives, 1999-2006; Associate Editor, 1994-2006.
Physics of Fluids, Associate Editor, 1994-1999.
International Journal of Bifurcations and Chaos, Editorial Board, 1990-present.
NAE Peer Committee Chemical Engineering, Committee on Membership (currently).
Member program reviews at Cornell, Houston, etc., University of Illinois, Chicago (currently), UC Santa Barbara, School of Engineering (currently).
Member International review of Engineering in the UK-ESPRC/Royal Academy of Engineering.

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Boards and Advising Activities (last five years)

Dow Chemical (Engineering Sciences Technical Advisory Board), 2000-present.
Unilever, Technical Advisor, 1997-present.
Council for Chemical Research, 1998-2001.
Chemical Engineering Technology Operating Council, AIChE, 2001-2002.
Current areas of research
Complex Systems, Granular Dynamics, Fluid Mechanics of Mixing.

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Publications in Refereed Journals

About 150 publications in refereed journals. See Publications for a complete list. Publications have appeared or are in press in the following journals:

Publications in Magazines

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Abstracts, Professional Meeting Presentations, and Proceedings

Over 270 presentations. One or more invited/plenary presentations given at AIChE Annual Meeting, American Physical Society (Fluid Mechanics Division, American Physical Society (Polymer Division), ANTEC/SPE-New Technology Forum, Applied Mechanics Division of A.S.M.E., Dutch Foundation for Chemical Research (SON), Dynamic Days, Fine Particle Society ( International Symposium), National Congress, Mexican Physical Society, ISCRE (International Chemical Reaction Engineering Meeting), International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanic (Topical and International Meetings), International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Sigma-Xi, Society for Engineering Science, World Congress of Chemical Engineering.

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Invited Lectures to University and Industry

1979
Cornell University, School of Chemical Engineering
Johns Hopkins University, Chemical Engineering Department
University of California at Los Angeles, Department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles

1980
Union Carbide Corporation, Bound Brook, New Jersey (twice)
Tennessee Eastman, Kingsport, Tennessee

1981
Symposium on Contemporary Applications of Mathematics, The Five College Applied Mathematics Program, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts
Celanese Research Co., Summit, New Jersey

1982
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, Department of Chemical Engineering
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, Division of Engineering
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, School of Chemical Engineering
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, Department of Chemical Engineering

1983
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
National Bureau of Standards, Fluid Mechanics Division, Gaithersburg, Maryland
National Bureau of Standards, Polymer Science and Standards Group, Gaithersburg
Rohm & Haas Company, Research Laboratories, Bristol, Pennsylvania
General Electric Company, Polymer Physics and Engineering, Corporate Research and Development, Schenectady, New York
The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325, Department of Chemical Engineering.
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, Applied Mathematics Seminars, Department of Mathematics
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Chemical Engineering, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Tufts University, Department of Chemical Engineering, Medford, Massachusetts
Boston University, Center for Polymer Studies and Department of Physics, Boston, Massachusetts

1984
Rohm & Haas Company, Research Laboratories, Bristol, Pennsylvania
Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
Eastman Kodak Research Laboratories, Rochester, New York
Raychem Corporation, Menlo Park, California
Stanford University, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford, California
University of California Davis, Department of Chemical Engineering, Davis, California
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Xerox Research Centre of Canada, Mississuaga, Ontario, Canada
CIDCA, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina
PLAPIQUI, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
INTEC, Santa Fe, Argentina
3M Center, Process Research and Technology, Division Engineering, St. Paul, Minnesota

1985
Shell Development Company, Westhollow Research Center, Houston, Texas
Eastman Kodak Company, Eastman Chemicals Division Research Laboratories, Kingsport, Tennessee
University of Minnesota, Department of Aerospace and Mechanics (Mechanics Seminars), Minneapolis, Minnesota
National Bureau of Standards, Chemical Engineering and Metrology Division, Gaithesburgh, Maryland
Series of seven two-hour lectures sponsored by the Interamerican Development Bank
INTEC, Santa Fe, Argentina
INTEMA, Universidad de Mar del Plata, Mar del Plata, Argentina
CETAD, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina
Dow Chemical, Central Research Laboratory, Midland, Michigan
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

1986
University of California, Davis, Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Southern California, Department of Chemical Engineering
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Fluid Mechanics Seminars
California Institute of Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Notre Dame, Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Condensed Matter Seminars, Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering

1987
University of Delaware, Department of Chemical Engineering E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co, Experimental Station, Wilmington, DE

1988
3M Technical Forum, 3M Technical Center, Corporate Research Laboratory, St. Paul, MN
Universty of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Yale University, Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Food Engineering
Cornell University, Center for Applied Mathematics/Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
University of California, Berkeley Applied Mechanics Division of A.S.M.E. and Society for Engineering Science
Stanford University, Stanford, Summer Course, Center for Turbulence Research, Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Michigan, Department of Chemical Engineering
Levich Institute, City College, University of New York, New York, New York
Edison Research Center, Mobil Chemical Company, Edison, New Jersey
University of Houston, Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Applied Mathematics

1989
Merck Sharp & Dohme Lectures, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
Sigma Xi Research Society Annual Meeting, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
Chaos '89, sponsored by the American Physical Society, University of Rhode Island
Shell Development Company, Westhollow Research Center, Houston, Texas
University of California, Berkeley, Department of Chemical Engineering
Amherst College, Department of Physics
University of Michigan, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
University of Akron, Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Akron, Department of Polymer Engineering
University of Massachusetts, Amherst Applied Mathematics
Union Carbide Corporation, Weston Canal Center, Somerset, NJ

1990
Stanford University, Department of Chemical Engineering
California Institute of Technology, Fluid Mechanics Seminars
University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering
University of Washington, Department of Chemical Engineering
Northwestern University, Department of Chemical Engineering
Stanford University, Seminar in Fluid Mechanics (E298)
Stanford University, Center for Turbulence Research
Raychem Corporation, Menlo Park, California
University of Texas, Austin, Department of Chemical Engineering
Harvard University, Division of Applied Sciences and Engineering
EPRI Workshop on Application of Chaos, San Francisco, California

1991
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Physics E.I. du Pont, Kingston, North Carolina
Rohm & Haas Research Laboratories, Bristol, PA
The Johns Hopkins University, Chemical Engineering Dow Chemical, Central Research, Midland, MI
General Electric Company, Research and Development Center, Schenectady, NY
University of Notre Dame, Chemical Engineering Department
Princeton University, Applied Mathematics
Louisiana State University, Department of Chemical Engineering
Northwestern University, Chemical Engineering Department
Northwestern University, Department of Mathematics
Northwestern University, Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
Murphy Lecture, Northwestern University
Rutgers State University, Department of Chemical & Biochemical Engineering
Procter and Gamble Company, Cincinnati, Ohio

1992
Department of Geological Sciences, Northwestern University
Sigma Xi Spring Lecture, Northwestern University
École Polytechnique, Université de Montréal
DSM Research, Geleen, The Netherlands (series of several lectures)
E.I. du Pont Experimental Station, Wilmington, Delaware
The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Chemical Engineering
Case Western Reserve University, Department of Macromolecular Science
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Department of Agricultural and Chemical Engineering
Texas A&M University, College Station, Department of Chemical Engineering

1993
University of Hawaii, Department of Oceanography, School of Earth Science and Oceanography
Northwestern University, Department of Physics
Northwestern University, Departments of Civil and Mechanical Engineering
Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering
Washington University, Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Illinois, Urbana, Department of Chemical Engineering
Integrated Science Program, Northwestern University, Evanston
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, Department of Chemical Engineering
Duke University, Center for Nonlinear and Complex Systems
2nd Experimental Chaos Conference, Washington, DC

1994
Allied-Signal/UOP Research Center, Des Plaines, Illinois
Lacey Lectures, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
College of Engineering Centennial Speaker, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Physics
ANTEC/SPE - New Technology Forum, San Francisco, California
3M Technical Forum, 3M Technical Center, Corporate Research Laboratory, St. Paul, MN

1995
University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Chemical Engineering
Purdue University, School of Chemical Engineering
University of Minnesota, Chemical Engineering and Materials Sciences
Carnegie-Mellon University, School of Chemical Engineering
Alcoa Technical Center, Pennsylvania
Michigan State University/University of Michigan, combined seminar, Departments of Chemical Engineering
University of Chicago (with T. Shinbrot) (featured in Science, 268, 1277-8, 1995).

1996
Dutch Foundation for Chemical Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Chemical Engineering
Syracuse University, Department of Chemical Engineering BF Goodrich, Cleveland
NATO Workshop in Mixing, Cargèse, Corsica, FRANCE

1997
University of California, Berkeley, Mechanical Engineering
University of Washington, Seattle, Department of Chemical Engineering
California Institute of Technology, GALCIT
University of Arizona, Chemical Engineering
University of Pittsburgh, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
XL National Congress of Physics; Mexico (plenary talk)
Florida Atlantic University (Sigma Xi Lecture)
Council for Chemical Research, St. Louis
Unilever Research, Port Sunlight, UK

1998
Princeton University, Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Tennessee, Department of Chemical Engineering
Oak Ridge Sigma Xi Chapter (Sigma Xi Lecture)
Oak Ridge, AIChE Section
Harvard University, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
UCLA, Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Minnesota, Chemical Engineering and Materials Sciences (twice)
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications

1999
Tulane University, Chemical Engineering
University of California at Irvine (Chemical and Biochemical Engineering)
University of California at Irvine (Aerospace Engineering) (Aerospace Engineering)
University of Colorado (Boulder), Chemical Engineering
University of Chicago (James Frank Institute)
University of Akron, Department of Polymer Engineering
Royal Institution, Danckwerts Memorial Lecture, London

2000
Plenary Presentation, 20th International Symposium of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Merck and Co., West Point, PA
Unilever, Port Sunlight, England

2001
Paul Flory Symposium, invited speaker, Stanford University
Abbott Laboratories
Georgia Institute of Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Cincinnati, Department of Chemical Engineering
Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chemical Engineering
Ohio State University, Chemical Engineering

2002
University of Virginia, Chemical Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara, Chemical Engineering
Penn State University, The Robb Lecture in Chemical Engineering Science, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
University of Texas, Austin, Nonlinear Dynamics
University of California, Berkeley, Chemical Engineering
Brooklyn Polytechnic, Office Interdisciplinary Studies

2003
University of Texas, Nonlinear Dynamics
Princeton University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Workshop on Scientific Issues in Multiphase Flows
Argonne National Laboratory, DOE Nanotechnology symposium
Illinois Institute of Technology, Institute of Fine Particle Research
Ohio State University, Chemical Engineering
Princeton School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

2004
University of South Carolina, Images in Nanotechnology Conferences
University of South Carolina, Chemical Engineering
State University of New York at Buffalo, Chemical Engineering
Los Alamos National Laboratories, Physics-Theory Seminars
University of Cambridge

2005
University of Florida
World Congress of Chemical Engineering (plenary), Glasgow, Scotland
University of Illinois, Chicago
Eight talks presented at American Physical Society Meeting, Fluid Mechanics Division.

2006
Theoretical and Applied Mechanics seminars, Northwestern University
University of Illinois, Chemical Engineering, Chicago
University of Notre Dame, Reilly lectures
University of Vermont
Consulting (last 10 years)
3M (1994-2000), DSM-Netherlands (1993-94), Gardner, Carton & Douglas (1994), B.F. Goodrich (1996-97), Unilever (1997-), Helene Curtis (1997), Intellicoat (1998-), Dow Chemical (2000-2004), Merck (2000), Abbott (2001), Baxter (2002-3), Resodyn Corp. (2004-), Unilever (1997-), Brookwood Pharmaceuticals (2006-).

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Industrial Courses Taught

Rohm & Haas (Fluid Mixing, 1991), DSM (Mixing, Dispersion, Chaos Theory, Netherlands, 1992), Northwestern University (Fluid Mixing and Dispersion, attendees from several companies, 1993, 1994, 1995), Helene Curtis/Unilever (Mixing and Dispersion, 1998), 3M (Creativity and Innovation, 1998), SC Johnson (Mixing Processes, 2004).

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Funding and Advising

Advised 33 Ph.D. students currently working in industry and academia. Federal sources have included NSF, DOE, AFOSR, and the U.S. Army. Industrial sources have included ALCOA, 3M, Exxon, Xerox, Dow Chemical, Owens Corning, Union Carbide, Rohm & Haas, du Pont. Other sources have included The Petroleum Research Fund and the Dreyfus Foundation.

Thesis Advisor and Post-Graduate-Scholar Sponsor Current research group, 6 PhD students: Ashley Smart, Steve Meier, Pengfei Chen, Ben Severson, Dean Malgrem, Gabe Juarez. For more information see Group & Alumni.

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