Matteo Pasquali

Rice University

Chemical Engineer

Fellow, Elected 2025

Matteo Pasquali is the A. J. Hartsook Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Chemistry, and Materials Science & NanoEngineering. Prof. Pasquali is also the founding Director of the Carbon Hub, a partnership between academia, industry and federal labs encompassing over 20 organizaTons across four continents. The Carbon Hub develops and deploys pathways for simultaneously harvesting zero-emission hydrogen and carbon materials that can slash emissions from industry and transportation. Prof. Pasquali leads an academic team that received the first Kavli Foundation Exploration Award in Nanoscience for Sustainability. Prof. Pasquali joined Rice University in 2000 and has served as Chair of the Chemistry Department, Magister of Lovett College, Co-Director of the Carbon Nanotechnology Laboratory, and Chief Scientific Advisor for Nanotechnology at Shell (sabbatical). His research lab is credited with laying the scientific foundations for the rheology and phase behavior of carbon nanotube (CNT) solutions and liquid crystals, for the structure-property relationships and the industrial producTon of CNT fibers, for the demonstraTon of their high performance, and for the development of scalable pathways for their manufacturing. His laboratory studies the interplay of energy, materials, and carbon, and is pioneering system-level pathways to decarbonize the industrial sector by using carbon materials while co-producing clean hydrogen. Prof. Pasquali is an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has won numerous awards including the NSF CAREER, Goradia Innovation Grand Prize, Herschel Rich Invention Award, Schlack Prize for Man-Made fibers, and the Rice Presidential Mentoring Award. Prof. Pasquali has advised over 100 graduate students and postdocs, who are now in key positions in leading universities, industry, national laboratories, startups, and finance. Prof. Pasquali has taught rheology and fluid mechanics at the graduate and undergraduate levels since 2000. Prof. Pasquali and his students have co-authored over 230 scientific articles and over 30 patents and patent applications, which have been cited over 20,000 times. Prof. Pasquali and his students have started companies focused on medical applications of CNT fibers and sustainable CNT materials.