Bill Green
MIT
Hoyt C. Hottel Professor in Chemical Engineering
William Green, Hoyt C. Hottel Professor of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is a world leader in quantitatively predicting chemical reactions, and in methods for computing molecular properties. In addition to his extensive fundamental research, he has addressed a variety of industrial engineering problems involving fuels, engines, catalysis, emissions, and production of chemicals and pharmaceuticals, and he has received several patents. Dr. Green is the Faculty Chair of MIT’s Mobility of the Future study. He was a Principal Investigator at Exxon’s Corporate Research Laboratory from 1991 through 1997, when he joined the MIT faculty. He was the Executive Officer of the MIT Department of Chemical Engineering from 2012 to 2015, and the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Chemical Kinetics from 2008 to 2013. Dr. Green was named an inaugural Fellow of the Combustion Institute in 2018, he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2016, and he received the American Chemical Society’s Glenn Award in Fuel Chemistry in 2013. Dr. Green holds a BA in chemistry from Swarthmore College, a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and performed postdoctoral research at both Cambridge University and the University of Pennsylvania.