Joseph D. Henry, Jr.

Joe Henry grew up in Morgan County and graduated from Berkeley Springs High School in 1959. He received a BSChE from WVU in 1964. He then worked at Exxon Research and Engineering for a year prior to entering graduate school at the University of Michigan where he received a PhD in chemical engineering in 1968.

Henry's research on separation processes is widely recognized. He developed the cross flow filtration process while he was leader of the separations research group at Continental Oil Company in 1970. He continued his separations research after joining the chemical engineering faculty at WVU in 1972. He has published extensively, been chairperson of the Gordon Research Conference on Separation and Purification and edited or been on the editorial boards of Separation and Purification Methods, AIChE Journal and Separation Science and Technology. He is editor of the new separations section of the Chemical Engineers Handbook.

Henry was chairperson of the chemical engineering department at WVU from 1981 until 1988. He worked to organize the Chemical Engineering Academy in 1986 in conjunction with the founding members.

He was appointed chairperson of the department of chemical, bio and materials engineering at Arizona State University in 1988 and served until 1993. He is presently a professor at ASU and is working to expand the environmental research programs of the College of Engineering and Applied Science.

Henry and his wife, Clare, have four sons.