Catalyst Expert and Catalyst Scientist Specializing in Mixed Metal Oxides
Technical Consultant #1966
Expertise
- Catalysis science of mixed metal oxides.
- Catalyst configurations as supported for bulk, molecular sieves and layered hydroxides.
- Molecular chemical reaction engineering.
- Establishing catalytic molecular and electronic structure as related to reactivity, selectivity and kinetic relationships for reactions by mixed oxide catalysts.
- In place molecular spectroscopy of working catalysts to observe catalysts in motion.
- Bioinorganic catalysis by enzymes and enzyme mimics.
- Silver and metal oxide systems for the production of formaldehyde.
- Catalytic system for the selective catalytic reduction (SCR) of nitric oxides (NOX) produced from coal combustion.
Experience
Undisclosed University, 1987 - Present
- Chair in Chemical Engineering, 2003 - Present
- Professor, Chemical Engineering Department, 1992 - 2003
- Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering Department, 1987 - 1992
Undisclosed Company, 1977 - 1986
- Research Engineer.
- Oil and petroleum refinery catalysts.
- Catalyst research and development.
Honors & Publications
Academic and Professional Affiliations
Professional Societies
- American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- North American Catalysis Society
- Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York
Editorial Boards
- ACS Catalysis
- Chemistry Central Journal
- Topics in Catalysis
- Catalysis Letters
- Chemical Reaction Intermediates
- Catalysis Today
Professional Activities
- ACS Catalysis Award Selection Committee
- Organizing Committee, 4th International Operando Spectroscopy Symposium
- ACS Division of Catalysis Science and Technology
- Reviewer for European Program on Structure-Performance Relationships, Malaga, Spain
- NSF Nanotechnology Workshop, Arlington,VA
- Organizing Committee, 4th International Operando Spectroscopy Symposium
- DOE Energy Frontiers Research Centers review panel
- NSF International Research Experience for Engineers Workshop
Chaired Conferences - Subjects
- Novel Catalytic Materials
- Materials for Energy Conversion
- In Situ Spectroscopy
- Fundamental of Oxide Catalysis
- Fundamentals of Metal Oxide Catalysts
Awards
- Alexander von Humboldt Award, AvH Foundation-Germany
- Fellow, American Chemical Society
- Visiting Professor, Catalysis Research Center, Hokkaido University, Japan
- Visiting Professor, Catalysis Research Center, Xiamen University, China
- Top Cited Researcher in Chemical Engineering Literature
- Top Cited Researcher in Catalysis Literature
- Consultant, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
- Visiting Professor, Technical University of Lille and University of Caen, France
- G. Olah Award in Petroleum or Hydrocarbon Chemistry, American Chemical Society
Publications and Patents
- Editor of several books and author of many book chapters
- 36 issued patents
Lectures - Keynote Speaker
Delivering National and International Lectures in numerous countries (Japan, China and Algeria, Germany, France, Turkey), with the following topics:
- Monitoring Materials in Action
- Pervasiveness of Surface Metal Oxide Phases in Mixed Oxide Catalysts
- Catalyst by Design: A Molecular Approach
- Anatomy of Semiconductor Photocatalysts for Splitting of Water
- Revisiting Classical Volcano Curves: Formic Acid Decomposition by Metal Catalysts
- Structure-Activity Relationships for Propylene Metathesis by SiO2 supported WOx NPs
- New Insights into the Water-Gas Shift Reactions Cr2O3*Fe2O3 Mixed Oxide Catalysts: A Combined Operando Raman-IR-XAS-MS Investigation
Education
- Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, CA
- M.S. Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, CA
- B.S. Chemical Engineering, City College of the City University of New York, NY