Case Western Reserve University chemical engineer and researcher Rohan Akolkar has been elected as a Senior Member of The National Academy of Inventors (NAI).
Akolkar is the Milton and Tamar Maltz Professor of Energy Innovation and Ohio Eminent Scholar in Advanced Energy Research in the Case School of Engineering.
He is among the 2021 class of 61 NAI senior members representing 36 research universities, government and nonprofit research institutes. Senior members from this class are named inventors on more than 617 issued U.S. patents. He also joins 10 previous NAI honorees from Case Western Reserve.
Senior members at NAI are active faculty, scientists and administrators who have demonstrated “remarkable innovation producing technologies that have brought, or aspire to bring, real impact on the welfare of society,” according to the academy. They are also innovators who have had “growing success in patents, licensing and commercialization.”
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