Prof. Alexander W. Dowling

Assistant Professor, Notre Dame, 2017 – current
Postdoctoral Fellow, UW-Madison, 2015 – 2017
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, Chemical Engineering, 2015
B.S.E., University of Michigan, Chemical Engineering, 2010

Alexander W. Dowling is an Assistant Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Notre Dame (Indiana, USA) with a concurrent appointment in Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics. His research combines chemical engineering, computational optimization, and uncertainty quantification to enable principled molecular-to-systems engineering of sustainable energy and environmental technologies. Applications areas include energy markets and infrastructure, carbon sequestration, shale gas utilization, and advanced separations (membranes, ionic liquids). Prof. Dowling has been recognized with an NSF CAREER award (2019) and two R&D 100 awards. He holds a B.S.E from the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor and a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University, all in chemical engineering.