Joel Pawlak

Joel Pawlak is the co-Founder of Next Century Spirits and a Faculty Athletics Representative and Associate Professor at North Carolina State University. Joel's responsibilities include maintaining research partnerships, generating new materials with novel functionality, overseeing research programs, managing budgets, and serving as a Scientific Advisor at Tethis Inc. Joel holds a B.S. and Ph.D. in Engineering from Syracuse University/SUNY-ESF, a degree in Strategic Transformational Leadership Program from North Carolina State University, and a sabbatical in Microbiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.