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Megan L. Robertson is a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Houston noted for her work in polymer chemistry towards achieving "green birth, green life, and green death" via recycling and via biosourced oils and fatty acids to develop new elastomers with the aim of replacing petrochemical sources.

Education

Robertson earned her B.S. in Chemical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis and her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley working under the direction of Prof. Nitash Balsara. After working at Rohm and Haas (now Dow Chemical) as a senior scientist for two years, she joined the group of Marc Hillmyer at the University of Minnesota as a postdoctoral research associate.

Career

In 2010 she joined the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Houston, and in 2021 she became a full professor. She has received funding from the Department of Defense to investigate chitin-based bulletproof coatings and leads an interdisciplinary team funded through the Welch Foundation to transform polyolefin plastic waste into useful materials. Her most cited work, which was published in Science, is a review on the topic of plastics and recycling. She is an Associate Editor at Macromolecules (journal) and is on the editorial advisory board of the European Polymer Journal. She is a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology.

Awards and recognition

• 2014 – NSF CAREER Award
• 2015 – Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences
• 2017 – PMSE Young Investigator
• 2018 – Sparks–Thomas award from the ACS Rubber Division
• 2022 – Fellow of the American Chemical Society
• 2023 – National Science Foundation Special Creativity Award

References

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3. DeWeerdt, Sarah (Jan 2023). "PLASTIC'S MESSY END-GAME". Scientific American. Vol. 328, no. 1. Nature America, Inc.
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6. "UH Engineers Develop "Bulletproof" Coatings". Materials Performance. 25 June 2020. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
7. "UH RESEARCH TEAM AWARDED $4M TO CONVERT PLASTIC WASTE INTO USEFUL MATERIALS". Retrieved 23 October 2023.
8. Jeanette M., Garcia; Megan L., Robertson (17 Nov 2017). "The future of plastics recycling". Science. 358 (6365): 870–872. Bibcode:2017Sci...358..870G. doi:10.1126/science.aaq0324. PMID 29146798. S2CID 30431371. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
9. "Editorial". acs.org. American Chemical Society. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
10. "Editorial Advisory Board". elsevier.com. Elsevier. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
11. "About the Board of Chemical Sciences and Technology". www.nationalacademies.org. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
12. "Kavli Frontiers of Science". Retrieved 13 December 2024.
13. "Rubber Division reveals five S&T award winners". Rubber and Plastics News. Crain. 10 October 2017. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
14. "2018 Science & Technology Award Winners Announced". Rubber World. Lippencott and Peto. November 2017. Retrieved 5 June 2023.

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