Dr. Clifford L. Henderson is the Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Alabama and a Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. Prior to joining the University of Alabama in 2022, he previously served as Department Chair for the Department of Chemical, Biological, and Materials Engineering at the University of South Florida from 2016 through 2022, and prior to that spent the first 18 years of his academic career at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Throughout his career, Dean Henderson has a track record of building and growing outstanding engineering programmatic efforts. For example, while at the University of South Florida, Dr. Henderson led the Department of Chemical, Biological, and Materials Engineering through a significant growth and expansion to become the fastest rising engineering department of any type in the U.S. according to U.S. News and World Report. Dean Henderson received his Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering with Highest Honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology and his Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. He has served in a variety of national leadership roles across various science and engineering organizations, and in particular within AIChE he has served in many different leadership roles including being a member of the Executive Board of the Programming Committee, a member of the Career and Education operating Council, Division Chair for the Materials Engineering and Sciences Division (MESD), Chair of Group 8a Polymers within the MESD Division, and Chair of the Student Chapters Committee. of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Dean Henderson’s research focuses on problems at the intersection of chemical engineering, organic and polymeric materials science, and micro- and nanotechnology in a variety of application areas including electronics, energy, and biotechnology. Professor Henderson also has previously served in a national leadership role related to his research interests through his service as the Functional Materials Program Director within the Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) Division at the National Science Foundation. Dean Henderson has received numerous awards and recognition for his research and service work including an NSF CAREER Award, the inaugural Intel/STC Outstanding Lithography Researcher Award, the AIChE Herb Epstein Award, and the AIChE Gary Leach Award. Dr. Henderson has been elected as a Fellow of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) in 2010, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2017, and a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) in 2018.