Carol K. Hall

Carol Klein Hall is an American chemical engineer, the Camille Dreyfus Distinguished University Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University. Her research involves biomolecule simulation, self-assembly of soft materials, and the design of synthetic peptides.

Education and career

Hall majored in physics at Cornell University, graduating in 1967. She completed her doctorate in physics in 1972 at Stony Brook University, under the supervision of George Stell.

After postdoctoral research at Cornell, and a brief stint as a researcher in corporate economics at Bell Labs, she joined the chemical engineering faculty at Princeton University in 1977, and moved to North Carolina State University in 1985. She was one of the first women to be appointed to a chemical engineering faculty in the United States.

Recognition

In 2005, Hall was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering "for applications of modern thermodynamic and computer-simulation methods to chemical engineering problems involving macromolecules and complex fluids".

She currently serves as Home Secretary for National Academy of Engineering. She became a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2007, "for creating a new paradigm to simulate protein aggregation through a combination of intermediate-resolution molecular models and the discontinuous molecular dynamics method". She is also a fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).