Buddie Mullins is a Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin. He received a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1990 and was a visiting scientist at the IBM Almaden Research Center from 1989-1991. Mullins joined UT-Austin in 1991 and holds the Z. D. Bonner Professorship and the Matthew Van Winkle Regents Professorship.