Paulette Clancy is the Edward J. Schafer Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, with secondary appointments in Materials Science and Engineering and in the Chemistry department. She is a research director in the Data Science and AI Institute at Hopkins. Her research focuses on computational studies of materials, primarily studying semiconductor materials and the development of new AI approaches. She has a PhD from Oxford University in Physical Chemistry. After a long tenure at Cornell, she moved to Johns Hopkins in 2018.

EDUCATION

• D.Phil. 1977, Oxford University
• Bachelor of Science 1974, London University

EXPERIENCE

• July 2023-present: Edward J. Schaefer Professor of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
• April 2023-present: Director of Research, Data Science and AI Institute, Johns Hopkins University.
• Aug. 1, 2018- July 1, 2023:  Professor and Inaugural Head, Dept. of Chem. & Biomolec. Engr., Johns Hopkins University
• 2010-present: Samuel W. and Diane M. Bodman Chair of Chemical Engineering, Cornell University.  Emerita 2018
• 2010-2018:  Founding Director, Institute for Computational Science and Engineering, Cornell.
• 2010-2016: Associate Director, Energy Institute, Cornell.
• 2008-2010:  co-Founder (w/Teresa Jordan) of the Energy Initiative, the precursor to Cornell’s Energy Institute.
• 2004-2010   William C. Hooey Professor and Director, School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell

RESEARCH AREAS

• Computational studies of semiconductor materials
• Kinetics and thermodynamics of crystal growth processes
• Laser annealing processes
• Studies of organic, inorganic and hybrid organic-inorganic semiconductors
• Multiscale modeling: Density functional theory, Molecular Dynamics, kinetic Monte Carlo
• AI/ML algorithm development, especially the development of Bayesian optimization and on-the-fly active learning

AWARDS

• 2023: Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
• 2022: Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• 2021: Elected to the Board of Directors of AIChE
• 2018: Cornell University Graduate School mentoring award. One of three awards University wide
• 2017: Finalist, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor
• 2017: Kaplan Family Distinguished Fellowship for contributions to service learning and civic engagement
• 2016, 2011, 2003 (three separate awards): James M. & Marsha D. McCormick undergraduate advising award, College of Engineering, Cornell University