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Daphne Wui Yarn Chan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research focuses on designing polymers to address global sustainability challenges. Chan earned her Bachelor's degree in Chemical Biomolecular Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 2013, followed by a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2019. During her doctorate, she developed strategies for designing engineering plastics using renewable protein feedstocks and approaches to recycling waste tire rubber under the supervision of Bradley Olsen at MIT. Following her Ph.D., she served as a postdoctoral researcher with Marc Hillmyer at the University of Minnesota, where her research concentrated on self-assembled block polymers and their applications in ultrafiltration membranes. Chan's contributions to her field have been recognized through several awards, including the University of Minnesota’s President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship and the MIT Tata Center Technology Design Fellowship.
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