Roger T. Bonnecaze

Biography

Dr. Roger T. Bonnecaze is the dean of the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin and affiliated faculty at the Oden Institute. He served as chair of Cockrell’s McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering from 2005 to 2013. In 2017, he helped launch the start-up Sandbox Semiconductor. 

Roger is an internationally recognized expert in rheology, complex fluids and nanomanufacturing. He co-founded the Nanomanufacturing Systems for Mobile Computing and Energy Technologies (NASCENT) Center, the first National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center led by the Cockrell School. He has won numerous awards, including the NSF Young Investigator Award, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship, the AIChE Thomas Baron Award and several teaching awards. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the Society of Rheology and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 

Roger received his bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and his master’s degree and doctorate from the California Institute of Technology, all in chemical engineering. Prior to joining Texas Engineering, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and the Institute of Theoretical Geophysics at the University of Cambridge.

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