Dr Ejaz Ahmad (PhD MRSC, LIIChE) is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-ISM) Dhanbad. Dr Ahmad's research work includes both theoretical and experimental aspects of developing new catalytic routes for biomass conversion to produce building block chemicals and fuels via synthesis and characterization of heterogeneous catalysts. He is a recipient of the Prime Minister Research Fellowship from DST, CII and HPCL R&D Centre, GYTI Award from Honourable President of India, DAAD Binational Research Grant, American Chemical Society Travel Grant, and DST international travel grant besides several other awards.
Amol Amrute studied chemistry and heterogeneous catalysis at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, where he completed his doctorate, Dr Sc. ETH, in the group of J. Pérez-Ramírez in 2013. After a short stay at Nexam Chemical, Sweden, he returned to ETH Zurich in 2015 as a post-doctoral fellow. In 2018, he joined the group of F. Schüth at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung as a post-doctoral fellow. In this position, he has focused on the development of catalytic materials by mechanochemistry. In 2021, he joined the Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences, A*STAR, Singapore as a Scientist. His research interests include heterogenous catalysis and mechanochemistry for energy and environmental applications.
Marimuthu Andiappan received his PhD degree in chemical engineering at the University of Michigan in 2013 under the supervision of Prof. Suljo Linic. He received his B.S. degree from Anna University, Chennai, and M.S. degree from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, both in Chemical Engineering. He also worked as an associate senior consulting engineer at Lilly Research Laboratories in Indianapolis from 2013 to 2016. He is currently an assistant professor of the School of Chemical Engineering at the Oklahoma State University (OSU). His research group at OSU focuses on localized surface plasmon and Mie resonance-mediated photocatalysis for energy and health applications.
Jun Cai is a postdoct at the School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University. He obtained his PhD at Shanghai Institute of Microscopy and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Science in 2019. During his PhD he focused on the in-situ characterization of chemical reactions at gas–solid interfaces by synchrotron based ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy instruments. His current research centers on the study of chemical reactions using well-defined model catalysts and explores the underlying mechanistic explanations.
Prashant Deshlahra is an assistant professor at Tufts University. He received his Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 2006 and his PhD from the University of Notre Dame in 2012, performing his dissertation research on spectroscopic and computational probes of electric fields near catalyst–support interfaces. His post-doctoral research at the University of California Berkeley was focused on mechanisms of dehydration and oxidative dehydrogenation reactions of alcohols on polyoxometalate catalysts. His research group at Tufts is focused on understanding effects of structure and composition of oxide and bimetallic catalysts on selective oxidation reactions.
Chen Feng is a PhD candidate at the National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei. Her advisor is Prof. Jie Zeng. She received her B.S. degree in Materials Science and Engineering at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2016. Her current research interests include electrochemistry and single-atom catalysts for water splitting.
Dr Fushimi is a research scientist in the Biological & Chemical Science & Engineering Department, Idaho National Laboratory working in the emerging areas of dynamic catalyst science and flexible chemical manufacturing. Her research is focused on using/developing transient kinetic tools where dynamics in chemical systems can reveal reaction networks and mechanism. She is an expert in the TAP (Temporal Analysis of Products) technique. Using TAP and other dynamic techniques her research group investigates selective oxidation, dehydrogenation, selective hydrogenation, ammonia synthesis and other reactions on supported metals and mixed metal oxide catalysts. These experiments provide fundamental information for the development of advanced materials that can reduce the energy intensity of chemical manufacturing.
Oz M. Gazit is an assistant professor in the Chemical Engineering faculty at Technion and a member of the Grand Technion Energy Program. He received his BSc in Chemical Engineering from Ben Gurion University and his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the Israeli Institute of Technology-Technion and conducted postdoctoral studies at the University of California Berkeley. His research interest includes the study and development of advanced catalytic materials for energy applications and the selective conversion of small molecules to alternative fuels and chemicals.
Georgios Giannakakis is a PhD candidate in the Nanocatalysis and Energy Laboratory in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Tufts University. He worked under Professor Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos (1950–2019) to examine catalysts consisting of single atoms of precious metals (Pd, Pt, Rh, Ir) supported on oxides and zeolites and in metal hosts. His thesis focuses on Cu- and Au-based single-atom alloy catalysts for selective CO and C–H bond activation under industrially relevant hydrogenation, dehydrogenation, and oxidation reaction conditions.
Dr Jianli Hu is a Chair Professor and the Director of Shale Gas Center at West Virginia University. He leads an interdisciplinary team carrying out cutting edge research in natural gas conversion and renewable energy utilization. He has demonstrated strong leadership in partnering with U.S. national laboratories and industrial companies. His research interests span across the fields of reaction engineering, surface chemistry, plasma and microwave-enhanced catalytic reactions. Before joining WVU, Dr Hu led innovation efforts at Koch Industries, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and BP Oil. He has been granted 32 U.S. patents and published over 150 journal and conference papers.
Yang Huang is a PhD student in Prof. Hongliang Xin's lab in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Virginia Tech. He received a B.E. in materials physics from University of Science and Technology Beijing in 2015 and a M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from University of California San Diego in 2017. His current research mainly focuses on machine learning assisted catalytic materials discovery and simulations.
Prof. Changbum Jo received a BS (2008) and PhD (2013) from KAIST in South Korea. In 2013–2018, he worked as a Research Fellow in the Institute for Basic Science(South Korea). Since 2018, he has held an assistant professor position in the Department of Chemistry, Inha University. His current research focuses on designing functional nanomaterials(e.g., zeolites, mesoporous materials, supported metal catalysts) for H2 production from substrates, CO2 utilization (CCU), adsorption for separation, and purification.
Christine Khoury received her B.Sc. in chemical engineering from Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. She obtained a master's degree during her studies in the direct track PhD at the Grand Technion Energy Program (GTEP). Currently, she is a PhD student in the lab of heterogeneous catalysis under the supervision of Assistant Professor Oz M. Gazit at the GTEP. Her research interests deal with the development, characterization, and catalytic testing of heterogeneous acid–base cooperative catalytic materials.
Dong-il Kwon is an undergraduate student at Inha University under the supervision of Prof. Changbum Jo. He has received a BS degree from Inha University in South Korea. He researches H2 production with metal supported hierarchical zeolites, CO2 adsorption, and gas-phase catalytic reactions.
Tien Le is a PhD student at the School of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering, the University of Oklahoma. She obtained her B.E. degree in Chemical Engineering from Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology in 2016. Before joining graduate school at the University of Oklahoma, she was a Project Engineer at Nghi Son Refinery and Petrochemical LLC (Vietnam) working on revamping projects in the refinery. Her research interest focuses on computational simulation of plasmonic reactions on zeolites and other semiconductors.
Dr Zhi Liu received his BSc in Geophysics/Physics from Peking University, and MSc in Electrical Engineering and PhD in Physics from Stanford University. Before joining the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab as a career staff scientist, he was a research associate at Stanford University/Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory. Dr Liu is currently a Professor and Vice Dean of the School of Physical Science and Technology at ShanghaiTech University. Dr Liu's research interest is surface and interface science. Particularly, phenomena at gas–solid interfaces and liquid–solid interfaces, and synchrotron/FEL based in-situ characterization techniques and advanced instrumentation development. Dr Liu has published over 220 papers in peer reviewed academic journals.
Prof. Paivi Maki-Arvela received her Doctor of Technology (chemical engineering) in 1994 at Abo Akademi University, Turku, Finland. Her research area is catalytic three-phase reactions, especially transformations of renewable raw materials to valuable products using heterogeneous catalysts. She has published more than 330 peer-reviewed publications, several review papers, and patents. Her research has been acknowledged by several prizes. She has served as President of the Nordic Catalysis Society and the Finnish Catalysis Society and a board member of the European Federation Catalysis Societies.
Mark E. Martínez-Klimov (Mexico, 1992), is a PhD student at the Laboratory of Chemical and Process Engineering at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. He received his BSc and MSc at the Faculty of Chemistry at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 2016 and 2018, respectively. During his BSc he focused on the application of Pd/titania nanotubes for the Heck and Suzuki reactions, while for his MSc he studied the effect of catalyst basicity on the production of biodiesel. His current research is focused on the development of shaped catalysts for the production of renewable fuels through hydrodeoxygenation and hydrocracking.
Farshid Mohammadparast is a PhD student in the School of Chemical Engineering at Oklahoma State University (OSU). Before joining OSU, he received his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Zahedan University, Iran, and his master's degree in chemical engineering from Amir Kabir University of Technology, Iran.
Matthew M. Montemore is an assistant professor at Tulane University in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Previously, he received his BA in physics at Grinnell College and his PhD in mechanical engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder, followed by postdoctoral studies in chemistry at Harvard University. His research interests include computational studies of catalysts and computational design of materials for energy applications.
Tong Mou received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from China University of Petroleum (Beijing) and Missouri University of Science and Technology in 2015. She then obtained her PhD in 2020 under the supervision of Prof. Bin Wang in Chemical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. Her research interests include computational simulations on nanomaterials and their applications in catalysis and solar energy conversions.
Pranjali Muley, PhD is a Research Scientist at the DOEs National Energy Technology Laboratory. Dr Muley has over 10 years of research experience focused on carbon conversion for sustainable energy using state-of-the-art technology through the confluence of interdisciplinary collaborations. Her work is a combination of numerical modeling and experimental evaluation of application of electromagnetic energy for carbon conversion. Dr Muley has over 25 journal and conference publications, 2 book chapters and numerous presentations at international conferences and invited talks. She is the winner of the Tipton Team Research Award, 2017 of Louisiana State University Agricultural Center.
Dmitry Yu. Murzin studied Chemical Technology at the Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology in Moscow and graduated with honors. He obtained his PhD and DrSc degrees at Karpov Physico-Chemical Institute in 1989 and 1999, respectively. After working at University of Strasbourg and Åbo Akademi as a post-doc he was associated from 1995–2000 with BASF. Since 2000 he has been a Professor of Chemical Technology at Åbo Akademi. He is an elected member of Academia Europaea, the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, and holds honorary professorships from Tianjin University and St. Petersburg Technological Institute. Prof. Murzin is an author or co-author of ca. 830 journal articles and book chapters, and several textbooks.
Sergio Obregón received his B.S. degree in Industrial Chemistry and M.Sc. in Materials Engineering from Autonomous University of Nuevo León, México. Afterwards, he obtained M.Sc. and PhD degrees (2015) from the University of Seville, Spain. Since then, he has been working as a researcher at the Autonomous University of Nuevo León, México. His research interests focus on the preparation and novel applications of nanomaterials, semiconductor photocatalysis, up- and down-conversion processes, fluorescence sensing, electrophoretic deposition, environmental pollution control and hydrogen production.
Prof. Kamal Kishore Pant (PhD, FRSC, FIIE, FIIChE, FBRSI) is a Head and Petrotech Chair Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at IIT Delhi, Adjunct Faculty in the Centre for Rural Development at IIT Delhi and University of Saskatchewan as well as Honorary Faculty at the University of Queensland, Australia. Prof. Pant's research contribution involves a wide range of innovative studies covering both theoretical and experimental aspects of heterogeneous catalysis for hydrocarbon conversion, CO2 capture, and conversion, coal to chemicals, bioenergy, waste to wealth, and value-added chemicals. Prof. Pant has 30 years of research and teaching experience.
Sang-Eon Park Emeritus Professor of Inha Univ., had been the director of Nano-Green Catalysis Center and process engineer in Chon Engrg. Co., a principal investigator in KRICT, and outside director for S-Oil since obtaining his PhD (1981) from KAIST. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of CO2 Utilization and CSO of CEN, a mesoporous silica company. He serves as an Honorary Prof. of several Universities, on the editorial boards of scientific journals, and as an international scientific member of ICCDU. He has published 350 papers and 80 patents with 8 industrialized projects. His research interests are microwave synthesis of porous materials, green catalysis, and CO2 utilization as an oxidant.
Dr Shireen has a PhD in Chemical Engineering from IIT (ISM) Dhanbad on the topic “Production of fuels & value-added chemicals from renewable biomass sources” from 2019. She joined the CRE group in 2018 as a Research Associate and received a National Postdoctoral Fellowship (NPDF) in 2019 to work on the synthesis and characterization of heterogeneous catalysts for the production of building block chemicals from bio-renewable resources. Prior to this, Dr Shireen completed a B.E. in Chemical Engineering from Jiwaji University, Gwalior in 2013 and worked as a Process Engineer for one year. Her accolades include a Young Research Ambassador from Elsevier.
Sundaram Bhardwaj Ramakrishnan received his B. Tech in Chemical Engineering from Anna University, India in 2016. Before joining Dr Andiappan's group he worked as a senior project assistant and a consultant at Indian Institute of Technology Madras and in start-up, respectively. His research focuses on the design and development of novel catalysts for catalytic and photocatalytic applications.
Dr Vicente Rodríguez-González is a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Scientific and Technological Research of San Luis Potosi (IPICyT-Mexico). He received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering (1999) and M.S. (2002) in Mexico City and his PhD (2006) from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) in France. He was a visiting professor for a year at the Photocatalysis International Research Center at Tokyo University of Science (2019) and a Brain Pool Program Fellow (2015) through the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies. His research interests are focused on Environmental Materials Science and New Nanostructures for Green Chemistry and Heterogeneous Photocatalysis.
Ferdi Schüth studied chemistry and law at Münster University, Germany, and completed his PhD in Chemistry in 1988. After a post-doc with L. D. Schmidt at the University of Minnesota, he joined the group of K. Unger in Mainz for his habilitation. In 1995 he became a full professor at Frankfurt University, and in 1998 moved to Mülheim to become a director at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung. He served as vice president of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Max Planck Society. His research interests include catalysis, porous materials, and energy-related topics.
Dr Dushyant Shekhawat leads the Reaction Engineering team at National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), U.S. Department of Energy, Morgantown, USA. Dr Shekhawat's research interests include: fuel processing for fuel cell applications, reaction engineering, surface chemistry, heterogeneous catalysis, energy, and microwave-assisted catalytic reactions. Currently, his team at NETL is leading efforts in developing microwave-assisted technologies and approaches to produce value-added fuels and chemicals from natural gas, higher hydrocarbon fuels, and coal. He was among the key contributors to a pyrochlore-based reforming catalyst, which was licensed to a spin-off company, Pyrochem Catalyst Company. He is a registered Professional Engineer (PE) in West Virginia and also serves in the NCEES's PE Chemical Engineering Examination Development committee. Dr Shekhawat received his BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in Twin Cities and his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the Michigan State University in East Lansing.
Hongyang Su is a PhD candidate at National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei. His advisor is Prof. Jie Zeng. He received his B.S. degree in chemistry from Shandong University in 2013. His current research interests include electrochemistry and operando characterizations of heterogenous catalysis using X-ray spectroscopy.
Ravi Teja Addanki Tirumala received his M. Tech degree in Chemical Engineering (Spl. Process Design) at the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun in 2015 and B.Tech. degree in Chemical Engineering at Satyabhama University, Chennai in 2013. He also worked as an Associate-R&D at Pluss Advanced Technologies in Gurgaon from 2015 to 2017. He is currently pursuing his PhD degree from the School of Chemical Engineering at the Oklahoma State University (OSU), Stillwater. He is part of a research group with novel aspirations on harvesting solar energy through LSPR and Mie resonance-mediated photocatalysis for green energy and pharmaceutical applications.
Bin Wang is an Associate Professor in the School of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. He obtained a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from East China University of Science and Technology, and PhD in Chemistry from Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon. Before joining OU in 2014, he conducted postdoctoral research in condensed matter physics at Vanderbilt University. He was a Marie Curie Fellow and received an ACSIN Young Scientist Prize and a US Department of Energy Early Career Award.
Weijia Wang works as a postdoc at the School of Physical Science and Technology (SPST) of ShanghaiTech University (since 2020). She was admitted to the degree of doctor of engineering in Nuclear Science and Technology at the National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (NSRL), University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2017. She carried out postdoc research at the Institute of Functional Interfaces (IFG) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (2017–2019). Her research activities focus on the surface chemistry of model surfaces, especially metal oxide surfaces.
Yixiao Wang is currently a research scientist in the department of Biological & Chemical Processing at Idaho National Laboratory, USA. She earned her doctorate in Chemical Engineering in 2017 from Delft University of Technology, Netherlands. She specializes in materials science and industrial catalysis, e.g., energy and environmental catalysis. She is an expert in the Temporal Analysis of products (TAP) technique. Her main research interests are focused on using TAP to mechanistically understand chemical reactions at the fundamental level, to provide information on how new materials can be designed to increase the efficiency of a chemical reaction.
Dr Yuxin Wang is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at West Virginia University. He obtained his doctorate degree in Chemical Engineering at Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Dr Wang's research interests span across the fields of heterogenous catalysis, microwave catalysis, and catalytic materials. His research currently focuses on microwave catalytic natural gas conversion, microwave catalytic ammonia synthesis, and microwave sensitive catalyst development.
Hongliang Xin is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He received his PhD in Chemical Engineering under the guidance of Prof. Suljo Linic from the University of Michigan in 2011. At Virginia Tech, Dr Xin won the Dean's award for Outstanding New Assistant Professor (2018) and Engineering Faculty Fellow (2019). He is also the recipient of the prestigious NSF CAREER Award (2019). His research focus is the development of theory-infused machine learning for tackling problems in fundamental surface science and catalysis.
Prof. Gregory Yablonsky is an expert in the area of chemical kinetics and chemical engineering. He graduated from Kyiv Polytechnic University (Ukraine) in 1962 and completed his PhD and Dr Sci at the Boreskov Institute of Catalysis (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation) in 1971 and 1989, respectively. His theory of complex steady-state and non-steady state catalytic reactions is widely used by research teams in many countries (USA, UK, Belgium, Germany, France, Norway and Thailand). Since 1995, Gregory Yablonsky has served as a Professor in the McKelvey School of Engineering, Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering at the Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He is an Honorary Professor of the University of Ghent, Belgium.
Fan Yang is an associate professor at ShanghaiTech University, China. He received his B.S. in Chemistry from Peking University in 2001 and PhD in Chemistry from Texas A&M University in 2007. After postdoc experience at Texas A&M University and Brookhaven National Laboratory, he joined the State Key Laboratory of Catalysis at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences as a faculty member in 2012 and then moved to ShanghaiTech University in December 2019. His research interest is in the fields of surface/interfacial science and catalysis.
Jie Zeng received his B.S. degree in Applied Chemistry at the University of Science and Technology of China in 2002 and his PhD in Condensed Matter Physics (with Prof. Jianguo Hou) in 2007. He worked in Prof. Younan Xia's group as a postdoctoral fellow at Washington University in St. Louis from 2008 to 2011. Since 2012, he has held the position of Professor for Chemistry in the Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale. His current research focuses on heterogeneous catalysis including atomic-level design of active sites and understanding of catalytic mechanisms.
Zhaoru Zha is a PhD student in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Tufts University. His research work focuses specifically on understanding effects of surface coverage and catalyst composition for vinyl acetate synthesis on noble metal based monometallic and bimetallic catalysts. Prior to joining Tufts, he completed his MS in Chemical Engineering at the University of Science and Technology of China.
Qin Zhou works as a postdoc at the School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University. She received her PhD and BS degrees in chemistry from Xiamen University in 2018 and Beijing Normal University in 2013, respectively. Her research interests are surface chemistry of solid materials especially metal nanoclusters and metal oxide single crystals by utilizing STM/AFM and XPS.
