Anne
Skaja Robinson
|
2012-Present | Chair, Department of Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering Tulane University |
2008-2011 |
Full Professor and Associate Chair for Biochemical
Engineering |
2003-2008 |
Associate Professor |
1997-2003 |
Assistant Professor |
1994-1997 |
Postdoctoral Fellow |
Anne Skaja
Robinson joined Tulane
University in January 2012 as the Chair of Chemical and
Biomolecular
Engineering. Prior to Tulane, Dr. Robinson was a Full Professor
and Associate
Chair at the University of Delaware, where she started her
academic career in
1997. Her honors include a DuPont Young Professor Award, and a
National Science
Foundation Presidential Early Career Award for Science and
Engineering (PECASE)
Award, and she is a fellow of the American Institute for Medical
and Biological
Engineering. Dr. Robinson has raised over $8 million in grants
as a principal
investigator from NSF, NIH and private foundations, and $24
million as a
co-investigator from NIH and NSF. She also has led a $2.5
million NSF-funded
IGERT multidisciplinary graduate training program in
biotechnology. She has
several patents and over 75 publications in the field of
biochemical
engineering, and has graduated 18 PhD and 4 MS students.
Dr. Robinson has
been a member of
AIChE since 1989, and has been actively involved in the AIChE
and American
Chemical Society for her entire career. She
has
been active in programming for both societies, and was chair in
2006 of the
ACS Biochemical Technology division after being the 2004 Program
Co-chair. In
2015, she was elected to the Board of Directors of the American
Institute of
Chemical Engineers. She is on the advisory board of Biotechnology and Bioengineering and the editorial board of
Biotechnology Journal, and has been an
ad hoc reviewer for many NIH and NSF study sections. She is also
a member of
the Advisory Committee for Pharmaceutical Sciences of the Food
and Drug
Administration.