{"id":9742,"date":"2017-02-22T11:30:37","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T16:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/chembe\/?p=9742"},"modified":"2021-12-02T11:29:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T16:29:37","slug":"bryan-benson-10-b-s-chemical-and-biomolecular-engineering","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/chembe\/news\/bryan-benson-10-b-s-chemical-and-biomolecular-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Using research to break the mold"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bryan Benson, ’10 BS kicked off his research career the moment he walked into the lab on the first day of his freshman year, and hasn\u2019t slowed down since.<\/p>\n

Since graduating from Johns Hopkins with a bachelor\u2019s degree in chemical and biomolecular engineering in 2010, Benson has earned a PhD in chemical and biological engineering at Princeton, had three children, and accepted a position as research engineer at Solvay Specialty Polymers in Alpharetta, Georgia.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t normal to join a lab that early,\u201d Benson acknowledged, \u201cbut I used the opportunity to make my formal education better because I related the lab work to what I was doing in class.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Benson, who was the first in his family to go to college, got interested in microsystems during a presentation he attended on a visit to Hopkins. Exchanging the time he\u2019d spent playing varsity sports in high school for 20- to 30-hour weeks in the lab, he\u2019d embarked on his first research paper by the end of his first year, received a Provost\u2019s Undergraduate Research Award to continue his research over the summer, and went on to win several fellowships that helped support his education.<\/p>\n

He graduated as co-author of five papers and recipient of a National Science Foundation graduate research fellowship, which he used to attend Princeton. Since January 2016, he\u2019s been doing process research for high-performance polymers at Solvay, where he says he relies on his background in microfluidics and translation from bench to scale.<\/p>\n

The ChemBE lab\u2019s mindset has followed him, too, as his lab mentors supported his pattern of breaking the mold. They taught him to give the unconventional a chance, he says, lending him confidence to pursue unlikely prospects. \u201cWe wouldn\u2019t throw an idea out the window because it looked crazy; we\u2019d try things we didn\u2019t think would work, and get surprised by the results,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

View Bryan’s 2008 video of chemically actuated microgrippers: https:\/\/figshare.com\/articles\/Pick_and_Place_Using_Chemically_Actuated_Microgrippers\/2011134<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-9742","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_categories-alumni"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nUsing research to break the mold - Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/chembe\/news\/bryan-benson-10-b-s-chemical-and-biomolecular-engineering\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Using research to break the mold - Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"  Bryan Benson, ’10 BS kicked off his research career the moment he walked into the lab on the first day of his freshman year, and hasn\u2019t slowed down since.…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/chembe\/news\/bryan-benson-10-b-s-chemical-and-biomolecular-engineering\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-12-02T16:29:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Using research to break the mold - 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