He obtained his B.S in Chemical Engineering with highest honors from Lehigh University in 2000, and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Delaware in 2006. Snyder carried out post-doctoral research in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota from 2006-2008, after which he returned to Lehigh’s Department of Chemical Engineering as an Assistant Professor. Snyder has held a P.C. Rossin Assistant Professorship (2009-2011) and a Frank Hook Assistant Professorship (2011-2013) at Lehigh. He received an NSF Career Award in 2014. Snyder’s research focuses on the design and engineering of functionalized inorganic nanoparticles, nanoparticle assembly, and porous particles and thin films for applications spanning catalysis, sorption, and separations.