Engineers and computer scientists

Chris L. Dwyer

Chris L. Dwyer is a computer engineer and nanotechnologist at Duke University who builds computing, sensing, and storage devices from self-assembled DNA nanostructures, and received the 2008 Presidential Early Career Award.

Chris Lattner

Chris Lattner is an American software engineer who created LLVM, Clang, and Swift at Apple, later co-authored MLIR and co-founded Modular, whose Mojo language Qualcomm acquired in 2026.

Chris T. Hendrickson

Chris T. Hendrickson is an American civil and environmental engineer, Hamerschlag University Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon, a National Academy of Engineering member known for economic input-output life-cycle assessment.

Chris Wolverton

Chris Wolverton is a computational materials scientist and professor at Northwestern University who created the Open Quantum Materials Database, predicting new materials before they are made in a lab.

Christian Breyer

Christian Breyer is a German engineer and Professor of Solar Economy at Finland's LUT University since 2014, known for modeling 100% renewable energy systems and Power-to-X.

Christian J. Lambertsen

Christian J. Lambertsen (1917–2011) was an American physician at the University of Pennsylvania who invented a self-contained underwater breathing apparatus and coined the term SCUBA.

Christian Joachim

Christian Joachim is a French nanoscientist and CNRS research director at CEMES in Toulouse, a pioneer of single-molecule electronics and molecular machinery who won the Feynman Prize in 1997 and 2005.

Christian Laszlo Belady

Christian Laszlo Belady is a data center engineer who originated the Power Usage Effectiveness metric, led Microsoft's data center research until retiring in 2023, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024.

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Christian Otto Mohr

Christian Otto Mohr (1835–1918) was a German civil engineer and professor of engineering mechanics at Stuttgart and Dresden, known for Mohr's circle, the moment-area method, and railway bridge design.

Christian Theobalt

Christian Theobalt is a German computer scientist who directs the Visual Computing and Artificial Intelligence department at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken.

Christina Delimitrou

Christina Delimitrou is a Greek computer systems researcher and MIT associate professor known for applying machine learning to cloud resource management, who received a 2025 PECASE award.

Christina Payne

Christina (Christy) M. Payne is an American chemical engineer who used molecular simulation to study cellulose- and PET-degrading enzymes, earned tenure at Kentucky, and now directs NSF programs.

Christina Smolke

Christina Smolke is an American synthetic biologist and Stanford adjunct professor of bioengineering who led the first biosynthesis of opioids in yeast and co-founded Antheia.

Christina Wildfire

Christina Wildfire is an American research engineer at the National Energy Technology Laboratory who leads its Center for Microwave Chemistry and won a 2025 PECASE award.

Christine A. Ehlig-Economides

Christine A. Ehlig-Economides is an American petroleum engineer, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003, who developed the industry-standard well-test analysis methods and now researches geologic carbon dioxide storage.

Christine A. Wang

Christine A. Wang is a semiconductor materials scientist at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019 for epitaxial crystal growth of III-V semiconductors and OMVPE reactor design.

Christine Darden

Christine Darden, born 1942, is an American mathematician and aerospace engineer who spent 40 years at NASA Langley and became a leading expert on sonic boom minimization.

Christine Duval

Christine E. Duval is an American chemical engineer at Case Western Reserve University whose membranes purify radionuclides and rare earths; she received a 2025 PECASE award.

Christine Ortiz

Christine Ortiz is an American materials scientist, the Morris Cohen Professor at MIT, who studies biological materials like bone and mollusc armor and founded the nonprofit Station1 in 2016.

Christoph J. Brabec

Christoph J. Brabec, also cited as Christoph Brabec, is a German materials scientist who works on organic and perovskite solar cells, chairing materials science at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.

Christoph R. Müller

Christoph R. Müller is a professor at ETH Zurich who leads the Laboratory of Energy Science and Engineering, researching CO2 capture, catalysis, and granular systems.

Christophe Ballif

Christophe Ballif (born 1969) is a Swiss physicist directing EPFL's Photovoltaics Laboratory in Neuchâtel and the CSEM Sustainable Energy Center, working on high-efficiency silicon solar cells.

Christopher A. Mattson

Christopher A. Mattson is an American mechanical engineer and professor at Brigham Young University, known for multi-objective design optimization and for products serving people in poverty, who received a 2011 PECASE award.

Christopher A. Schuh

Christopher A. Schuh is an American metallurgist, dean of Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering since 2023, known for nanocrystalline metals research and co-founding Desktop Metal.

Christopher A. Voigt

Christopher A. Voigt is a synthetic biologist known for programmable genetic circuits and the Cello design software; he is Daniel I.C. Wang Professor and heads MIT's Department of Biological Engineering.

Christopher B. Burke

Christopher B. Burke is an American civil engineer who founded Christopher B. Burke Engineering in Rosemont, Illinois, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021.

Christopher Boehnen

Christopher Boehnen is an American computer engineer and biometrics researcher who earned his Ph.D. at the University of Notre Dame. He led programs on biometric security at IARPA.

Christopher Burcham

Christopher Luis Burcham is an American chemical engineer and Professor of the Practice at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who specializes in pharmaceutical crystallization and process control.

Christopher C. Kraft

Christopher C. Kraft (1924–2019) was an American aerospace engineer who became NASA's first flight director, known as the "Father of Mission Control," directing all Mercury missions.