Lynn Loo *01

Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo received her BSE from University of Pennsylvania and her Ph.D. from Princeton University. She spent a year at Bell Laboratories before joining the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Austin. She returned to Princeton in 2007 where she is now the Theodora D. ’78 and William H. Walton III ’74 Professor in Engineering and director of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. She is interested in the processing and structural development of materials for organic solar cells and circuits, the combination of which forms the basis of wireless “smart” windows that can increase building energy efficiency and occupant comfort. Highlighted in the Wall Street Journal, Loo co-founded Andluca Technologies to further develop this innovation. She is an APS fellow and a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. She has been recognized with Sloan and Beckman Fellowships, the APS John H. Dillon Medal, the Peter and Edith O’Donnell Award from the Texas Academy of Medicine, Science and Engineering, and the Alan P. Colburn Award from the AIChE.