Sibani Lisa Biswal
William M. McCardell Professor of Chemical Engineering, Rice University
Dr. Sibani Lisa Biswal is the William M. McCardell Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Rice University in Houston, Texas, and leads the Soft Matter Engineering Laboratory. She has a B.S in chemical engineering from Caltech (1999) and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Stanford University (2004). She is the recipient of an ONR Young Investigator Award (2008) and a National Science Foundation CAREER award (2009). She has received the George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching (2015), the Rice University Chemical Engineering Alumni Professional Progress Award (2017), and the South Texas Section American Institute of Chemical Engineers Best Applied Paper Award (2018). She was selected as a 2020 Fellow in Drexel University's Executive Leadership in Academic Technology, Engineering and Science (ELATES) program. She has published more than 100 papers in the area of colloidal and interfacial engineering.