Brian Grady joined the School of Sustainable Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering (SCBME) at the University of Oklahoma in 1994. His research focuses on structure-property relationships of polymers, polymer composites, carbon nanotubes in polymers, surfactants in solution, surfactant adsorption at the liquid-solid interface, detergency, polymer-coated surfaces, biodegradable polymers, polymer film recycling, ion-containing polymers, and x-ray characterization techniques (scattering, absorption). He is Editor of Polymer Engineering and Science and sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Surfactants and Detergents and SPE Polymers. He has 167 refereed journal publications and has an h-index of 39 (Web of Science) and 47 (Google).

He served as Chair of the Surfactants and Detergents division of the American Oil Chemists Society from 2016-2018 and served as President of the North American Thermal Analysis Society in 2014 and the Society of Plastics Engineers in 2018-2019. Recent awards include being named as a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (2021), the President’s Cup Winner of the Society of Plastics Engineers (2020), an Honored Service Member (2016) and Technical Fellow of the Society of Plastics Engineers (2012), and the President’s Distinguished Faculty Mentoring Program Outstanding Mentor Award at the University of Oklahoma (2014). As well as a fellow of the Society of Plastics Engineers. He is also an NSF CAREER award winner. Grady’s research has been supported by NSF, DOE, NIH and DOD, and a number of industries, with total funding of over $12 M. During 2000-2001, he was awarded a Humboldt Research Award to work at the Max Planck Institute for Colloid and Interface Science in Potsdam, Germany.

Since 2009, he has been the Director of the Institute for Applied Surfactant Research at the University of Oklahoma and served as Director of SCBME from 2014-2022.

Curriculum Vitae

Douglas and Hilda Bourne Chair
School of Chemical Engineering in Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering

Fellow
American Institute of Chemical Engineer

Director
Institute for Applied Surfactant Research