Christopher Paolucci joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Virginia in Fall 2018 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2024. He received his BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 2012, and his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 2017 under the guidance of William F. Schneider (2012-2017) and as a visiting scholar at Purdue University under the guidance of Fabio Ribeiro, Nicholas Delgass, and Rajamani Gounder (2015). He continued his research in machine learning guided materials screening between fall 2017 and spring 2018 in the group of Jens Nørskov and Thomas Bligaard at Stanford University. Chris’ expertise is the application of electronic structure calculations, molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo simulation, and kinetic modeling to problems in materials science and heterogeneous catalysis. His main research areas of interest are catalyst stability and catalyst dynamics under reaction conditions. He received the ACS PRF Doctoral New Investigator award in 2021 and the NSF CAREER award in 2022. He served as a director of the Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division of AIChE from 2019-2021, was the president of the Southeastern Catalysis Society in 2023-2024. He is currently the fall programming chair for the ACS Catalysis Division and an Associate Editor for Applied Catalysis B: Energy and Environment.