Prof. Clifford L. Henderson

Dr. Clifford L. Henderson is the Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Alabama and a Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. Prior to joining the University of Alabama in 2022, he previously served as Department Chair for the Department of Chemical, Biological, and Materials Engineering at the University of South Florida from 2016 through 2022, and prior to that spent the first 18 years of his academic career at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dean Henderson received his Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering with Highest Honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology and his Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin.

Dean Henderson’s research focuses on problems at the intersection of chemical engineering, organic and polymeric materials science, and micro- and nanotechnology in a variety of application areas including electronics, energy, and biotechnology. Dean Henderson has served in a variety of national leadership roles related to his academic engineering career and his research interests, including prior service as the Functional Materials Program Director within the Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) Division at the National Science Foundation.

Dean Henderson has received numerous awards and recognition for his research and service work including an NSF CAREER Award, the inaugural Intel/STC Outstanding Lithography Researcher Award, the AIChE Herb Epstein Award, and the AIChE Gary Leach Award. Dr. Henderson has been elected as a Fellow of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) in 2010, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2017, and a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) in 2018.