Dr. Stephen Frayne

Dr. Stephen Frayne

Senior Principal Scientist

Steve combines technical innovation, team building, and strategic planning to drive product development and bring new technologies to market. Most recently he spent 5+ years at Via Separations, where he developed a novel membrane technology to decarbonize industrial separations, guiding it from proof of concept to commercial deployment.

Steve earned his Ph.D. in chemistry from Wesleyan University, working on selective thiol-Michael reactions for synthesizing multifunctional polymers and dendrimers. Following his Ph.D., he was a postdoctoral scholar at MIT, where he designed chemically resilient polymers for separations.

Steve has authored 14 peer-reviewed papers on the design and synthesis of organic materials, holds four issued patents with several more pending, and is passionate about applied chemistry, energy efficiency, and triathlons.