Paul T. Daniell

Paul T. Daniell was born in New York City and raised on Eastern Long Island where he attended public schools. He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and went on to obtain his M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from WVU. His research topics involved process modeling and combustion gas clean up.

Paul joined Union Carbide in 1986 in UNIPOL Process R&D. His work covered scale up of new products for polyethylene and polypropylene, and optimization of the UNIPOL process. He has numerous patents and research reports resulting from his work with films, extruded resins, and blow molded materials. Paul also served as an R&D licensing representative for several international licensees.

Paul received the corporate engineering excellence award on multiple occasions for his work with scale up of the UNIPOL process, and was awarded the highest corporate research award on two occasions for his work with bimodal molecular weight distribution polymers and solution catalyst delivery. He went on to serve as a research lead on the Dow-Exxon joint venture (UNIVATION).

After his retirement from Dow, Paul joined the engineering faculty at Marietta College where he achieved tenure and won the McCoy Teaching Excellence award. In 2018, Paul joined the faculty in the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at WVU.

Paul has two sons, Benjamin and Joshua, and lives in Morgantown with his wife Debbie Daniell. Over the years, Paul has been an avid astrophotographer, and has mentored young people in astronomy as well as STEM subjects. His other interests are in math research and critical thinking in education.