Julie Rorrer

Dr. Julie Rorrer is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Washington. Her research is centered on sustainable heterogenous catalysis. She received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Barrett, the Honors College at Arizona State University in 2014, and her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2019 with Professors Alexis Bell and Dean Toste. Before starting at the University of Washington, she was an Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow in chemical engineering at MIT in the Yuriy Roman-Leshkov group and a Fellow of the MIT Communication Lab. She is also the founder of the ongoing outreach initiative, ColorMePhD, a free resource communicating current PhD-level research in science and engineering to a broad audience using coloring pages.

April 2024