Brief biography of Bernhardt L. Trout
				 Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, MIT
Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, MIT
                    Vice-President 
				and Senior Fellow, Institute for the Study of Nature
				Dr. Bernhardt Trout is a Professor in the Department of Chemical 
                    Engineering at MIT, where he was an undergraduate before earning his Ph.D. from 
                    UC Berkeley in 1996. Bernhardt is Director, Novartis-MIT Center for Continuous 
                    Manufacturing and Co-Chair, Singapore-MIT Alliance, Chemical and Pharmaceutical 
                    Engineering, as well as the head of the MIT Molecular Engineering group. He was 
                    also the winner of the Ford Motor Company Young Investigator Award (2001), the 
                    NSF CAREER Award (2000), and 
                    the holder of the Henry L. and Grace Doherty Professorship for 2001-2003. He 
                    also directs the Concourse program 
                    of alternative and liberal studies at MIT.
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