Jones Group

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech

Dr. Christopher W. Jones

John F. Brock III School Chair and Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Georgia Tech
Office: ES&T 2202

 

Education

  • BSE Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, 1995
    Research Advisor- Levi T. Thompson
  • MS Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 1997
    Research Advisor- Mark E. Davis
  • PhD Chemical Engineering, Minor – Chemistry California Institute of Technology, 1999
    Research Advisor- Mark E. Davis
  • Post-Doctoral Fellow, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 1999-2000
    Research Advisors- John E. Bercaw and Mark E. Davis

Bio

Chris Jones was born in suburban Detroit, Michigan in July of 1973. After his primary and secondary schooling and 14 years living Troy, Michigan, he enrolled as a chemical engineering student at the University of Michigan. In route to earning a BSE in chemical engineering, Chris carried out research on transition metal carbide and nitride catalytic materials under the direction of Levi Thompson. After graduating in 1995, Chris moved to Pasadena, California, to study inorganic materials chemistry and catalysis under Mark E. Davis at Caltech. There he earned MS and PhD degrees in chemical engineering in 1997 and 1999, respectively. Subsequently, he studied organometallic chemistry and olefin polymerization under the direction of both Davis and John E Bercaw at Caltech. He started as an Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech in the summer of 2000 and was promoted to Associate Professor in July 2005. In May, 2005, he was appointed the J. Carl and Sheila Pirkle Faculty Fellow, followed by a promotion to Professor in July 2008. He was named New-Vision Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering in July 2011. In 2015, he became the Love Family Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, and in 2019 the William R. McLain Chair. Chris was named the Associate Vice President for Research at Georgia Tech in November 2013. In this role, he directed 50% of his time on campus-wide research administration with a primary focus on interdisciplinary research efforts and policy related to research institutes, centers and research core facilities. In 2018, he served as the Interim Executive Vice-President for Research, before returning full time to his research and teaching roles in chemical and biomolecular engineering in 2019. In August 2021, he was appointed the John F. Brock III School Chair in ChBE@GT.

Dr. Jones directs a research program focused primarily on catalysis and CO2 separation, sequestration and utilization. A major focus of his laboratory is the development of materials and processes for the removal of CO2 from air, or “direct air capture” (DAC). In 2010 he was honored with the Ipatieff Prize from the American Chemical Society for his work on palladium catalyzed Heck and Suzuki coupling reactions. That same year, he was selected as the founding Editor-in-Chief of ACS Catalysis, a new multi-disciplinary catalysis journal published by the American Chemical Society. In 2013, Chris was recognized by the North American Catalysis Society with the Paul E. Emmett Award in Fundamental Catalysis and by the American Society of Engineering Education with the Curtis W. McGraw Research Award. In 2016 he was recognized by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers with the Andreas Acrivos Award for Professional Progress in Chemical Engineering, distinguishing him as one of the top academic chemical engineers under 45. In 2020, after ten years of building and leading ACS Catalysis, he was selected as the founding Editor-in-Chief of JACS Au by an international editorial search committee commissioned by the ACS.  In 2022, Dr. Jones was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering for contributions to the design and synthesis of catalytic materials and for advancing technologies related to carbon capture and sequestration. AIChE recognized his work on direct air capture of CO2 in 2023 with the Institute Award in Industrial Gases Technology.  He was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2023, as well. Most recently, Jones was selected as the 2025 winner of the E. V. Murphree Award in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry from ACS. Dr. Jones has been PI or co-PI on over $90M in sponsored research, in the last twenty-one years, and as of August 2024, has published over 375 papers that have been cited >40,000 times. He has an H-Index of 103 (Google Scholar).

Advances as Associate Vice-President for Research, 2013-2019.

Honors, Awards, Editorial Boards

    • E. V. Murphree Award, ACS, 2025
    • Editorial Board, Chem & Bio Engineering, 2024-
    • Institute Award in Excellence in Industrial Gases Technology, AIChE, 2023
    • Fellow, National Academy of Inventors, 2023
    • ICI Distinguished Lectures, Chemical & Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, 2023
    • ENFL Distinguished Researcher Award, American Chemical Society, 2023
    • US National Academy of Engineering, 2022
    • Georgia Tech Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research Innovation, 2021
    • Kwang-Yu and Lee-Chien Wang Lecture, University of Rochester, 2021
    • Dreyfus Foundation Chemistry Shorts Film, 2020, https://chemistryshorts.org/
    • Founding Editor in Chief, JACS Au, 2020
    • Global Distinguished Lectureship, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 2019
    • UOP-Honeywell Invitational Lecturer, 2019
    • Ensor Lectureship, Washington State University, 2019
    • William H. Schwarz Lecture, Johns Hopkins University, 2018
    • William R. McLain Chair, 2018-2021
    • Andreas Acrivos Award for Professional Progress in Chemical Engineering, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2016
    • Fellow of the American Chemical Society, 2015
    • Sigma Xi Best Faculty Paper Award, 2015
    • Golden Goggles Lectureship, Middle Tennessee State University (student selected), 2015
    • Editorial Board, Annual Reviews of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 2015
    • Love Family Professorship, 2015-2019
    • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2014
    • Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, National Academy of Engineering, Program Committee, 2014
    • Curtis W. McGraw Research Award, American Society of Engineering Education, 2013
    • Paul H. Emmett Award in Fundamental Catalysis, North American Catalysis Society, 2013
    • Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, National Academy of Engineering, Invited Speaker, 2012
    • Georgia Tech Award for Research Program Development, 2012
    • Editorial Board, ChemSusChem, 2012-2015
    • Distinguished Lecturer, Hong Kong Baptist University, 2011
    • Georgia Tech Award for the Outstanding Faculty Research Author, 2011
    • New-Vision Professorship, 2011-2015
    • Founding Editor in Chief, ACS Catalysis, 2010
    • Eastman Lectureship, University of Virginia, 2010
    • Robert W. Vaughan Lectureship, Caltech, 2010
    • Ipatieff Prize, American Chemical Society, 2010
    • Editorial Board, Catalysis Letters, 2010
    • UOP-Honeywell Invitational Lecturer, 2009
    • Dreyfus Foundation Fellowship in Environmental Chemistry, 2008
    • Hesburgh Teaching Fellow, 2008
    • Editorial Board, Journal of Molecular Catalysis A. Chemical, 2007-2010
    • Editorial Board, Applied Catalysis A. General, 2007-2010
    • Editorial Board, Organic Reactions Catalysis Society, 2007-2008
    • Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, National Academy of Engineering, Invited Participant, 2005
    • J. Carl and Sheila Pirkle Faculty Fellow, 2005-2008, 2010-2011
    • DuPont Young Professor Award, 2005
    • Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award, 2004
    • Young Scientists Prize, 13th International Congress on Catalysis, 2004
    • CETL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, 2004
    • CAREER AWARD, National Science Foundation, 2002-2007
    • Ralph Powe Award, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, 2001
    • Junior Faculty Award, Shell Oil Company Foundation, 2001, 2002, 2003
    • Innovation Recognition Award, Union Carbide, 1999
    • William Corcoran Fellowship, Caltech, 1995
    • James B. Angell Scholar, Michigan, 1994-1995
    • William Branstrom Freshman Prize, Michigan, 1992

Invited Lectures

Universities

    1. Seminar, University of Florida, Department of Chemical Engineering, February 2003
    2. Seminar, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, May 2003
    3. Seminar, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, Department of Chemical Engineering, September 2003
    4. Seminar, University of Virginia, Department of Chemical Engineering, October 2003
    5. Seminar, Wayne State University, Department of Chemistry, October 2003
    6. Seminar, University of Windsor, Department of Chemistry, October 2003
    7. Seminar, Lehigh University, Department of Chemistry, October 2003
    8. Seminar, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Chemical Engineering, April 2004
    9. Seminar, University of Texas, Department of Chemical Engineering, November 2004
    10. Seminar, University of Michigan, Department of Chemical Engineering, March 2005
    11. Seminar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Chemistry, March 2005
    12. Seminar, University of South Carolina, Department of Chemical Engineering, April 2005
    13. Seminar, Texas A&M University, Department of Chemical Engineering, October 2005
    14. Seminar, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Polymer, Textile and Fiber Engineering, January 2006
    15. Seminar, University of Colorado, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, January 2006
    16. Seminar, Purdue University, Department of Chemical Engineering, January 2006
    17. Seminar, Tennessee Technological University, Department of Chemical Engineering, February 2006
    18. Seminar, California Institute of Technology, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, May 2006
    19. Seminar, University of California, Davis, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, October 2006
    20. Seminar, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Van’t Hoff Institute of Molecular Sciences, Netherlands, February 2007
    21. Seminar, Technische Universität München, Department of Chemistry, Germany, September 2007
    22. Seminar, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Netherlands, September 2007
    23. Seminar, Mississippi State University, School of Chemical Enineering, October 2007
    24. Seminar, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, October 2007
    25. Seminar, University of Tokyo, Department of Chemical System Engineering, October, 2007
    26. Seminar, University of Minnesota, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, March 2008
    27. Seminar, Stanford University, Department of Chemical Engineering, May 2008
    28. Seminar, Inha University, Department of Chemistry, July 2008
    29. Seminar, Stanford University, Global Climate and Energy Project, December 2008
    30. Seminar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, December 2008
    31. Seminar, Texas A&M University, Department of Chemical Engineering, February 2009
    32. Seminar, Northwestern University, Center for Catalysis and Surface Science, April 2009
    33. Seminar, University of Delaware, Department of Chemical Engineering, September 2009
    34. Robert W. Vaughan Lecture, California Institute of Technology, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, October 2009
    35. Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, November 2009
    36. Seminar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Chemistry, February 2010
    37. Eastman Lecture, University of Virginia, Department of Chemical Engineering, February 2010
    38. Seminar, The Ohio State University, Department of Chemistry, April 2010
    39. Seminar, University of Florida, Department of Chemical Engineering, April 2010
    40. Seminar, Osaka University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, May 2010
    41. Seminar, Lehigh University, Department of Chemical Engineering, September 2010
    42. Seminar, Columbia University, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, February 2011
    43. Distinguished Lectures, Hong Kong Baptist University, College of Science and Department of Chemistry, September 2011
    44. Seminar, Iowa State University, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, November 2011
    45. Seminar, University of Colorado, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, February 2012
    46. Seminar, University of Notre Dame, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, February 2012
    47. Seminar, Princeton University, Department of Chemical Engineering, February 2012
    48. Seminar, Tufts University, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, February 2012
    49. Seminar, University of Tennessee, Department of Chemistry, March 2012
    50. Seminar, Vanderbilt University, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, April 2012
    51. Student-Invited Seminar, Texas A&M University, Department of Chemistry, May 2012
    52. Seminar, Southampton University, Department of Chemistry, October 2012
    53. Seminar, Stanford University, Department of Chemical Engineering, January 2013
    54. Seminar, University of South Alabama, Spring Research Forum, Featured Speaker, March 2013
    55. Seminar, University of California, Riverside, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, May 2013
    56. Seminar, University of Houston, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, February 2014
    57. Seminar, University of Nevada, Reno, Department of Chemistry, October 2014
    58. Seminar, University of South Florida, Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, November 2014
    59. Seminar, University of Wisconsin, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, December 2014
    60. Seminar, University of California, Berkeley, Energy Bioscience Institute, March 2015
    61. Seminar, Clemson University, Department of Chemistry, April 2015
    62. Seminar, Colorado School of Mines, Department of Chemistry, October 2015
    63. Seminar, Columbia University, Department of Chemical Engineering, November 2015
    64. Seminar, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Chemical Engineering, February 2016
    65. Seminar, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, March 2016
    66. Seminar, Northwestern University, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, May 2016
    67. Seminar, University of Victoria, Department of Chemistry, February 2017
    68. Seminar, Seton Hall University, Department of Chemistry, March 2017
    69. Seminar, University of Concepcion, September 2017
    70. Xingda Lecture, Peking University, Department of Chemistry, October 2017
    71. Seminar, Shanghai Normal University, Department of Chemistry, October 2017
    72. William H. Schwarz Lecture, Johns Hopkins University, February 2018
    73. Seminar, Rutgers University, Department of Chemical & Biochemical Engineering, April 2018
    74. Seminar, Princeton University, Department of Chemistry, April 2018
    75. Seminar, Oklahoma State University, Department of Chemical Engineering, August 2018
    76. Seminar, Jilin University, State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis & Preparative Chemistry, June 2019
    77. Seminar, Dalian University of Technology, School of Chemical Engineering, June 2019
    78. Seminar, CSIR-CLRI, Chennai, July 2019
    79. Seminar, Indian Institute of Science, Department of Chemistry, July 2019
    80. Seminar, IIT Kanpur, Department of Chemical Engineering, July 2019
    81. Global Distinguished Lecture, KAIST, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, October 2019.
    82. Ensor Lecture, Washington State University, Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, October 2019.
    83. Seminar, North Carolina State University, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, October 2019.
    84. Seminar, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Chemical Engineering, November 2019.
    85. Seminar, Instituto de Tecnología Química (ITQ), Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), València, Spain, February 2020.
    86. Seminar, ETH Zurich, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, February 2020.
    87. Seminar, NISER, Department of Chemistry, Bhubaneswar, India, March 2020.
    88. Keynote Speaker, 7th Annual Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Graduate Student Symposium, Lehigh University, September 2021
    89. Seminar, Louisiana State University, Department of Chemical Engineering, September 2021
    90. Kwang-Yu and Lee-Chien Wang Lecture, 2021, University of Rochester, October 2021
    91. Seminar, Colorado School of Mines, Chemical and Biological Engineering Department, February 2022
    92. Seminar, Stanford University, Department of Chemical Engineering, February 2022
    93. Seminar, University of California, Davis, Department of Chemical Engineering, February 2022
    94. Seminar, Ohio State University, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, July 2022
    95. Graduate Student Seminar, KAIST, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, July 2022
    96. Seminar, Seoul National University, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, July 2022
    97. Seminar, University of Michigan, Department of Chemical Engineering, September 2022
    98. Dean’s Distinguished Seminar, University of Alabama, September 2022
    99. Seminar, Fudan University, Department of Chemistry, July 2023
    100. Seminar, Zhejiang University, Department of Chemistry, July 2023
    101. Seminar, Peking University, Department of Chemistry, August 2023
    102. Seminar, Peking University, Department of Chemistry, August 2023
    103. ICI Distinguished Lectures, Chemical & Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, October 2023
    104. Seminar, University of Oklahoma, Department of Chemical Engineering, October 2023
    105. Seminar, Michigan State University, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, November 2023
    106. Seminar, Arizona State University, School for Engineering Matter, Transport, Energy, January 2024
    107. Seminar, Yale University, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, March 2024
    108. Seminar, University of Illinois, Chicago, Chemical Engineering, April 2024

Industry and Government

    1. Degussa Inc., Calvert City, KY, October, 2003
    2. Department of Energy – Catalysis Contractor’s Meeting, Rockville, MD, May 2004
    3. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, August 2004
    4. Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, TN, September 2004
    5. Department of Energy – Catalysis Contractor’s Meeting, Rockville, MD, May 2004
    6. Lonza Group, Ltd., Visp, Switzerland, July 2005
    7. National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh, PA, September 2005
    8. Dow Chemical Company, Freeport, TX, November 2005
    9. Dow Chemical Company, Terneuzen, Netherlands, February, 2007
    10. Chevron Technology Ventures, Houston, TX, April 2007
    11. Chevron Corporation, Richmond, CA, November, 2007
    12. Dow Chemical Company, Midland, MI, January 2008
    13. UOP-Honeywell Invitational Lecture Series, Des Plaines, IL, April 2009
    14. DuPont Central Research and Development, Wilmington, DE, January, 2010
    15. Dow Chemical Company, Terneuzen, Netherlands, October 2010
    16. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, January 2011
    17. Dow Chemical Company, Midland, MI March 2011
    18. BASF Catalysts, Iselin, NJ, November 2011
    19. ChevronPhillips, Houston, TX, November 2011
    20. Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, TN, October 2012
    21. Dow Chemical Company, Freeport, TX, March 2013
    22. ExxonMobil Chemicals, Baytown, TX, August 2013
    23. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC, January 2014
    24. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, CO, October 2015
    25. Linde, München, Germany, May 2016
    26. ExxonMobil, Clinton, NJ, August 2017
    27. UOP Invitational Lecture Series, Des Plaines, IL, October 2019
    28. W.L. Gore, Newark, DE, January 2020
    29. Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, January 2020
    30. Micromeritics, 2021 Webinar Series, October 2021
    31. W. L. Gore, Newark, DE, March 2022
    32. KRICT, Daejeon, South Korea, July 2022
    33. KIER, Daejeon, South Korea, July 2022
    34. Ramon Areces Foundation, (Virtual) September 2022
    35. Shell Chemistry Webinar, (Virtual) September 2022
    36. Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Suwon, South Korea, April, 2024
    37. NETL Special Webinar on Amine Adsorbent Oxidation, February, 2024

  2. Conferences

      1. Design and Synthesis of Nanoscale Catalytic Materials, 3rd Chemical Engineering Conference for Collaboration in the Eastern Mediterranean, Thessalaniki, Greece, May 2003
      2. E.V. Murphree Award Session Honoring Mark E. Davis, 229th ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, March, 2005
      3. George A. Olah Award Session Honoring Enrique Iglesia, 229th ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 2005
      4. Nanoparticles, Colloids and Surfaces in Advanced Catalytic Materials, 79th ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium, Potsdam, NY, June 2005
      5. Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Section, China/USA/Japan Joint ChE Conference, Beijing, China, October 2005
      6. G. Somorjai Award Session Honoring James Dumesic, 231st ACS National Meeting, Atlanta, GA, March 2006
      7. Gordon Research Conference – Catalysis, Colby Sawyer College, New London, NH, June 2006
      8. Keynote Lecture on New Catalytic Materials and Supports, 20th North American Meeting, North American Catalysis Society, Houston, TX, June 2007
      9. Catalysis in Nano-spaces, Kanagawa University, Yokohama, Japan, October 2007
      10. G. Somorjai Award Session Honoring Avelino Corma, 235th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 2008
      11. Catalysis for Sustainable Society, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, July 2008
      12. Workshop on Nanotechnologies for Thermal and Solar Energy Conversion and Storage, Jacksonville, FL, August 2008
      13. ASME 3rd Energy Nanotechnology International Conference, Jacksonville, FL, August 2008
      14. Gordon Research Conference – Chemical Reactions at Surfaces, Ventura, CA, February 2009
      15. Catalyst Synthesis, 237th ACS National Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, March 2009
      16. Keynote Lecture, 14th International Conference on the Relations Between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis, Stockholm, Sweden, September 2009
      17. V. Ipatieff Award Session, 239th ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March 2010
      18. William Flowers Hand Lecture, Mississippi State University Biofuels Conference, Jackson, MS, August 2010
      19. Lehigh University Nano-Energy Conference, Bethlehem, PA, September 2010
      20. Frontiers of Heterogeneous Catalysis – 3rd International Symposium of the Catalysis Research Center – Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany, October 2010
      21. Young Faculty Forum, AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November 2010
      22. Michigan Catalysis Society, Livonia, MI, March 2011
      23. Gabor Somorjai Award Symposium Honoring Harold H. Kung, 241st ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, March 2011
      24. Emory University Emerson Lectureship Symposium (Awardee Ei-ichi Negishi) Atlanta, GA, April 2011
      25. GCEP Carbon Capture Workshop, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, May 2011
      26. Direct Air Capture Summit, Calgary, Canada, March, 2012
      27. Gabor Somorjai Award Symposium Honoring Enrique Iglesia – George Olah Award Symposium Honoring James Dumesic, 243rd ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 2012
      28. Carbon Capture Symposium, 243rd ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 2012
      29. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, National Academy of Engineering, Invited Speaker, September 2012
      30. Alpha Chi Sigma Award Symposium Honoring Enrique Iglesia, AIChE Annual Meeting, October 2012
      31. George Olah Award Symposium Honoring Alex Bell, 245th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 2013
      32. Keynote Lecture, Catalysis Club of Chicago, Naperville, IL, May 2013
      33. Plenary Lecture, 23rd North American Catalysis Society Meeting, Louisville, KY, June 2013
      34. Keynote Lecture, 16th International Symposium on the Relations Between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis, Hokkaido, Japan, August 2013
      35. Keynote Lecture, Southeastern Catalysis Society, Asheville, NC, September 2013
      36. Plenary Lecture, 6th Asia Pacific Congress on Catalysis, Taipei, Taiwan, October 2013
      37. Philadelphia Catalysis Club, Philadelphia, PA, January 2014
      38. Gabor Somorjai Award Symposium Honoring Mark Davis, 247th ACS National Meeting, Dallas, TX, March 2014
      39. Advances in Catalytic Technologies for Conversion of Coal, Natural Gas, and Biomass to Liquids, 247th ACS National Meeting, Dallas, TX, March 2014
      40. Southwestern Catalysis Society, Houston, TX, April 2014
      41. Plenary Lecture, 7th International Symposium on Nanoporous Materials, Niagara Falls, Canada, June 2014
      42. Plenary Lecture, 7th Tokyo Conference on Advanced Catalytic Science and Technology, Kyoto, Japan, June 2014
      43. Session Honoring John E. Bercaw, 248th ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, August 2014
      44. KAUST Research Conferences: Catalytic Carbon and Hydrogen Management, KAUST, Saudi Arabia, February 2015
      45. Michigan Catalysis Society, Livonia, MI, March 2015
      46. Plenary Lecture, 8th International Conference on Carbon Dioxide Utilization, Singapore, July 2015
      47. Plenary Lecture, 9th International Mesostructured Materials Symposium, Brisbane, Australia, August 2015
      48. Keynote Lecture, Europacat XII, Kazan, Russia, August 2015
      49. PacificChem, Honolulu, HI, December 2015
      50. Ipatieff Prize Symposium Honoring Aditya Bhan, 251st ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 2016
      51. 16th International Congress on Catalysis, Beijing, China, July 2016
      52. Plenary Lecture, Catalytic Activation and Selective Conversion of Energy-Related Molecules, Xiamen, China, July 2016
      53. 252nd ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, August 2016
      54. ACS-CSRI Meeting, Bhopal India, January 2017
      55. ACS on Campus, Pune, India, January 2017
      56. APCAT-7, Keynote Lecture, Mumbai, India, January 2017
      57. MRS Spring Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, April 2017
      58. Chemistry-A New Opening, Jagiellonian University, June 2017
      59. Gordon Research Conference – CO2 Capture, Utilization and Storage, New London, NH, June 2017
      60. Session Honoring Umit Ozkan, 254th ACS National Meeting, Washington, DC, August 2017
      61. Andreas Acrivos Award Lecture, AIChE National Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, October 2017
      62. Emory University Emerson Lectureship Symposium (Awardee Emily Carter) Atlanta, GA, October 2017
      63. KAUST Research Conferences, KAUST, Saudi Arabia, January 2018
      64. Keynote Lecture, 18th International Symposium on the Relationships Between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis, Sydney, Australia, July 2018 
      65. R.H. Wilhelm Award Session honoring Robert J. Davis, AIChE Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, October 2018
      66. MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, November 2018
      67. The Netherlands Catalysis and Chemistry Conference, Noordwijkerhout, March 2019
      68. George Olah Smposium Honoring Chunshan Song, 257th ACS National Meeting, Orlando, FL, April 2019
      69. Ipatieff Prize Symposium Honoring Ive Hermans, 257th ACS National Meeting, Orlando, FL, April 2019
      70. Gordon Research Conference – CO2 Capture, Utilization and Storage, Les Diablarets, Switzerland, May 2019
      71. Keynote Lecture, 19th International Zeolite Conference, Perth, Australia, July 2019.
      72. ACS-CRI Symposium, Kanpur, India, July 2019
      73. International Conference on Catalysis and Organometallic Chemistry, Goa, India, March 2020
      74. Carbon Capture Symposium, UC Irvine, (Virtual) December 2020
      75. Michigan Catalysis Society, February 2021
      76. 2nd Competitive Energy Systems Symposium, AIChE, Plenary Lecture, April 2021
      77. FEZA 2021 (Federation of European Zeolite Associations), Plenary Lecture, UK (Virtual), July 2021
      78. International Conference on Materials for Humanity, Singapore (Virtual), July 2021
      79. 18th International Conference on Carbon Capture, Sequestration & Utilization (ICCDU), Keynote Lecture, S. Korea (Virtual), July 2021
      80. ENFL Distinguished Researcher Award Session Honoring L. S. Fan, 263rd ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 2022
      81. Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers, Plenary Lecture, Jeju, South Korea, (Virtual) April 2022
      82. ASSLA Symposium, Gangneung, South Korea, July 2022
      83. International Conference on Carbon Capture Science & Technology, Plenary Lecture, (Virtual) July 2022
      84. 12th International Conference on Environmental Catalysis, Plenary Lecture, Osaka, Japan, (Virtual) July 2022
      85. ENFL Mid-Career Research Award Session Honoring Alissa Park, 264th ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, August 2022
      86. ACS Catalysis Lectureship Session Honoring Eranda Nikolla, 264th ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, August 2022
      87. International Conference on Separation & Purification Technology, (Virtual), December, 2022
      88. Carbon Negative Opportunities Workshop, Virtual, February 2023
      89. Gabor Somorjai Award Session Honoring Suljo Linic, 265th ACS National Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, March 2023
      90. 265th ACS National Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, March 2023
      91. Westlake Future Summit, Hangzhou, China, July 2023
      92. NSFC-ACS Synthetic Chemistry Forum, Hangzhou, China, July 2023
      93. ENFL Distinguished Researcher Award Sessions, 266th ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, August 2023
      94. AIChE National Meeting, Plenary Lecture, Orlando, FL, November 2023
      95. Scialog Negative Emissions Fellows, Keynote Lecture, Tucson, AZ, November 2023
      96. Natural Gas Conversion Symposium, Xiamen, China, April 2024
      97. Korean Chemical Society Meeting, Suwon, South Korea, April 2024
      98. ACS Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference, Atlanta, GA, June 2024
      99. 268th ACS National Meeting, Denver, CO, August 2024

  3. Courses Taught (past, present, future)

    • ChE 2100 Chemical Process Principles – Sp 2000, Fa 2005, Su 2011, Su 2013, Fa 2016
    • ChE 4300 Kinetics and Reactor Design – Fa 2001, Fa 2002, Sp 2003, Su 2008, Su 2012
    • ChBE 4515 Chemical Process Safety – Sp 2002, Su 2002, Su 2003, Sp 2004, Su 2004, Sp 2006, Su 2006, Sp 2007, Su 2007, Sp 2010, Sp 2011, Sp 2012, Sp 2013, Sp 2014, Fa 2017, Sp 2018, Sp 2019, Sp 2021
    • ChBE 4535 Chemical Product Design, Engineering and Optimization – Fa 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2020,2021
    • ChBE 6300 Kinetics and Reactor Design – Sp 2008, Fa 2008, 2009, Fa 2019
    • ChBE 4803/8801 Technical Leadership, Professionalism & Decision-Making, Sp 2022, Sp 2023, Sp 2024, Fa 2024
    • ChBE 8803 Catalytic Chemistry and Engineering – Sp 2005, Fa 2010