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Jones Group News

January 2013 –Dr. Jones is selected as the ASEE Engineering Research Council Curtis W. McGraw Research Award winner. The Curtis W. McGraw Research Award was established in 1957 to recognize outstanding early achievements by young engineering college faculty and to encourage the continuance of such productivity.

January 2013 –Seung Won Choi is selected for a Young Researcher Travel Award to attend the NASCRE meeting, where he will present on his research. Congratulations Seung Won!

November 2012 –Dr. Jones is selected as the winner of the 2013 Paul H. Emmett Award in Fundamental Catalysis, given by the North American Catalysis Society and sponsored by the Grace Davison. He will deliver a plenary lecture at the 23^rd NAM meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, in June 2013. The award is given every other year and serves to recognize individual contributions in the field of catalysis with emphasis on discovery and understanding of catalytic phenomena, proposal of catalytic reaction mechanisms and identification of and description of catalytic sites and species. Past award winners include a distinguished array of scientists and engineers.

August 2012 –The group begins collaboration with the Center for Selective C-H Functionalization , a new Phase Center for Chemical Innovation based in Emory University. Dr. Yan Feng will be the lead researcher working with the center.

July 2012 –Josh Thompson’s paper on hybrid ZIF materials, " Hybrid Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks: Controlling Framework Porosity and Functionality by Mixed-Linker Synthesis," published in Chemistry of Materials (Chem. Mater. 2012, 24, 1930-1936), is highlighted in Science as an Editor’s Choice article (Science, 2012, 336, 782).

June 2012 –Wei Long successfully defends her PhD thesis, entitled: "Designing Immobilized Catalysts for Chemical Transformations: New Platforms to Tune the Accessibility of Active Sites." Dr. Long will start work in July at Color Imaging Inc., in Norcross, GA. Wei is the first PhD graduate in chemistry from the group.

June 2012 –Hiroko Okatsu successfully defends her MS thesis, entitled: "New Synthetic Methods to Alter Catalytic Properties of Supported K/MoS₂ Catalysts for Syngas Conversion to Higher Alcohols." Hiroko will start work at Kaneka in Japan later this year.

June 2012 –Yasutaka Kuwahara’s JACS communication is highlighted in C&ENews . In this paper (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 10757-10760), Dr. Kuwahara demonstrated how tuning the acid/base properties of the silica support in class 1 aminosilica materials can yield unexpected benefits with regard to improving adsorption capacities for extraction of CO2 from simulated air and flue gas.

June 2012 –Approximately one year after it was published, Praveen Bollini’s paper published in Energy & Fuels stands as the most cited paper published in that journal for 2011, of 660 total papers published. Praveen was the first to systematically explore the oxidative stability of aminosilica CO2 sorbents and identify class 2, 3-aminopropyl-functionalized solids as exceptionally oxidatively stable.

April 2012 –Dr. Akihiro Nomura joins the group after completing his PhD at the University of Kyoto. He will work on a new collaboration with the Dow Chemical Company, breaking ground in a new research area for the group.

April 2012 –Dr. Sumit Bali joins the group as a Research Scientist. Sumit is working on CO2 capture from ultra-dilute gas streams.

March 2012 –Dr. Sarah Russell departs for a position at ETH Zurich. Good luck Sarah.

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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