Primary Job Title VP of Research & Development & Co-Founder Primary Organization Serionix
Gender Male
Economy received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland and is Professor Emeritus of Material Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois. Economy has 30+ years of experience in industrial R&D management at IBM and Carborundum, and a strong commercialization track record including 6 currently marketed inventions and 14 IR-100
innovation awards.
In 1989, he joined UIUC as Professor and Head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and formerly served as President of IUPAC’s Macromolecular Division (1994-98). He has previously received the Paul J. Flory Polymer Research Prize for extraordinary contribution to polymer science and engineering (2001) and is a Fellow of the PMSE (2001), the National Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003), and the American Chemical Society (2012).
