For the Australian former rowing coxswain, see Megan Robertson.’' Megan L. Robertson is a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Houston noted for her work in polymer chemistry towards achieving "green birth, green life, and green death"[1] via recycling and via biosourced oils and fatty acids to develop new elastomers with the aim of replacing petrochemical sources.
After working at Rohm and Haas (now Dow Chemical) as a senior scientist for two years, she joined the group of Marc Hillmyer at the University of Minnesota as a postdoctoral research associate.
[4] In 2010 she joined the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Houston, and in 2021 she became a full professor.
[5] She has received funding from the Department of Defense to investigate chitin-based bulletproof coatings[6] and leads an interdisciplinary team funded through the Welch Foundation to transform polyolefin plastic waste into useful materials.
[7] Her most cited work, which was published in Science, is a review on the topic of plastics and recycling.