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The Jones Research Group in November 2011
Top row: Roxy Zhou, Andrew Brown, Steph Didas, Sarah Russell, Tobias Berto, Praveen Bollini, Rebecca Key, Yasutaka Kuwahara; Middle row: Grace Chen, Miles Sakwa-Novak, Prof. Chris Jones, Wei Long, Megan Lydon, Weiyin Xu, Linda Al-Hmoud, Nick Brunelli, Watcha Chaikittisilp; Front row: Mustafa Alkhabbaz, Seung Won Choi, Hyung-Ju Kim, Yan Feng, Dun-Yen Kang, Josh Thompson, Hiroko Okatsu

Jones Group News

January 2012 –The group’s first publication describing the use of supported amine adsorbent’s for the extraction of CO2 from ambient air in Environmental Science and Technology (2011, 45, 2420) is the second most cited paper in the journal for 2011 out of 1517 papers.

January 2012 –New students join the group: Miles Sakwa-Novak, Grace Chen and Mustafa Alkhabbaz will study CO2 capture, while Seung Won Choi and Xiaojuan Zhao will study catalysis.

December 2011 –Dr. Fateme Rezaei joins the group after completing her PhD at Monash University (Australia) and Luleå University of Technology (Sweden) working with Paul Webley and Jonas Hedlund.

December 2011 –Dr. Watcharop Chaikittisilp departs the group after his post-doctoral stay to take a position at the National Institute of Materials Science in Japan.

December 2011 –Dr. Yasutaka Kuwahara departs the group after his post-doctoral stay to continue his JSPS-sponsored studies in Japan.

December 2011 –Mr. Tobias Berto finishes his Diploma Thesis studies on Co-porphyrin catalyzed epoxide ring-opening reactions and returns to Germany for his PhD work at the Technische Universität München.

August 2011 –Dr. Yan Feng joins the group as a post-doctoral fellow after earning his PhD working in the L. Que Group at the University of Minnesota.

August 2011 –Dr. Sunho Choi departs the group after a three year post-doctoral stint to take a position as an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Northeastern University

August 2011 –Dr. Sarah Russell joins the group as a post-doctoral fellow after earning her PhD working in the P. Chirik Group at Cornell University and Princeton University.

June 2011 –Dr. Yasutaka Kuwahara joins the group as a JSPS Post-doctoral fellow after earning his PhD working in the H. Yamashita Group at Osaka University.

June 2011 –Rataykorn Khunsupat successfully defends her MS thesis.

May 2011 –After 4 years in the group, first as a post-doctoral fellow, then as a research scientist, Krishnan Venkatasubbaiah leaves the group to take a position as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at NISER in India

March 2011 –Eric Ping successfully defends his PhD thesis and leaves for his new position as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Colorado, Boulder

March 2011 –Mariefel Valenzuela Olarte successfully defends her PhD thesis and departs for her new position as a staff member at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

March 2011 –Dr. Jones is selected as the Georgia Tech Outstanding Faculty Research Author for the period of 2005-2010, from among the 900+ Georgia Tech faculty.

October 2010 –Ms. Hiroko Okatsu joins the group.  She will study the catalytic conversion of syngas to higher alcohols.

October 2010 –Jeff Drese successfully defends his PhD thesis and departs for his new position at ConocoPhillips.

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Research Focus:

Energy - Biofuels, CO2 Capture, Lignocellulose conversion

Catalysis - heterogeneous (supported organometallics, zeolites, oxides, etc.); homogeneous (soluble organometallics and coordination compounds); interface of homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis (catalyst leaching)

Polymers and polymerization - miniemulsions, controlled radical polymerization (RAFT, ATRP), renewable monomers and polymers

Separations - materials for adsorptive and membrane separations

 

Current Research Topics:

Silica Surface Chemistry
Organometallic Chemistry
Polymer Chemistry
Molecular Design of Immobilized Metal Complex Catalysts
Molecular Design of Adsorbent Materials
Low Energy Separation Processes
Catalytic Olefin Polymerization
Catalytic Conversion of Renewable Resources
Magnetic Nanoparticles as Catalyst Supports
Recyclable Polymerization Catalysts