February, 2024-
Youn Ji Min successfully defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations to Youn Ji, PhD graduate #48. Dr. Min will work at GT as a postdoc.
The Jones Group also participated in our biennial Birkman Assessment workshop.
November – December 2023-
Hyun June Moon and Pavithra Narayanan successfully defended their PhD theses. Congratulations to PhD graduates #46 and #47. Dr. Moon is moving to NIST for a postdoctoral position, and Dr. Narayanan is taking a position with Schlumberger.
October – November 2023-
Three new postdocs have joined the group! Yunseok Lee completed his PhD at Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology. Yunseok Lee completed her PhD at Seoul National University. Arkaprabha Giri completed his PhD at IISER Bhopal. Welcome to Atlanta!
Chris delivered the ICI Lectures in the Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering at the University of Alberta.
September 2023-
Chris and the group were awarded the 2023 AIChE Institute Award in Industrial Gases, in recognition of our work on extraction of CO2 from ambient air, or direct air capture (DAC).
July 2023-
Poorandokht Kashkouli completed her postdoctoral studies in the group and took a position at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Good luck Poori!
June 2023-
The Lively, Realff, and Jones groups published a paper on DAC featuring two novel embodiments, wind-driven air flow and Joule heating desorption using sorbent coated carbon fibers. This research, funded by ARPA-E, was featured in a GT new story as well as several national news outlets. https://coe.gatech.edu/news/2023/06/inside-out-heating-and-ambient-wind-could-make-direct-air-capture-cheaper-and-more
May – June 2023-
Yemi Ojelade and Jacob Hoffman passed their Ph.D. proposals and were admitted to Ph.D. candidacy. Congratulations guys!
February 2023-
Chris is selected for the 2023 ACS Energy & Fuels Division’s Distinguished Researcher Award. He was honored for his work on direct air capture (DAC) of CO2. https://enfl.aps.anl.gov/awards/enfl-distinguished-researcher-award
January 2023-
A news story highlighting the Georgia Tech Direct Air Capture Center (DirACC) featuring the research of the Jones group and others in ChBE was published. Read at: Cutting Emissions Isn’t Enough. We Need to Scrub Carbon Directly from the Air (gatech.edu)
Dr. Juliana Carneiro completed her post-doctoral stay in the group and embarked on a short sabbatical in Brazil. She will start her faculty position in chemical engineering at Columbia University in the spring
December 2022-
Isaiah Borne completed his Ph.D. on porous liquids and accepted a post-doctoral position working with Andrew Cooper at the University of Liverpool. Isaiah is the 44th Ph.D. from the group and second co-advised by Ryan Lively
November 2022-
Team Catalysis took on Team Separations in the 5th Jones Group Olympics. Team Separations just missed a clean sweep of the events, winning 4-1.Team Separations leads the series over Team Catalysis, 4 wins to 1
October 2022-
Dr. Samser Shaikh joined the group as a post-doctoral fellow after earning his PhD under the guidance of Jones Group alum Dr. Krishnan Venkatasubbaiah at NISER in India.
July – August 2022-
Dr. Unjin Ryu joined the group as a post-doctoral fellow and Dr. Sayan Banerjee completed his post-doctoral stay at GT. Sayan took a position at Lam Research. Welcome Unjin and congrats Sayan!
May 2022-
Dr. Frank Kong and Dr. Gabe Short complete their post-doctoral stays at GT. Frank will join the Dow Chemical Company and Gabe will join Flow Polymers.
Pavithra Narayanan won first prize in the poster competition at the 14th International Conference on the Fundamentals of Adsorption in Broomfield, Colorado, for her presentation entitled “Self-Supported Branched poly(ethyleneimine) Scaffolds for CO2 Capture and the Effect of Humidity and SO2 on their Performance.”
Jones group members travel en masse to the FOA and NAM conferences. Prof’s Jones, Lively and Walton co-chaired the FOA Conference, where ~30 ChBE@GT researchers and alumni participated. This represented >5% of conference attendees. Frank, Pavithra, Isaiah, Guanhe, Young Hun (KAIST visiting student), MinGyu, Sayan, Hyun June, Jacob, Youn Ji and Yoseph attended FOA, alongside alums Eric Ping, Miles Sakwa-Novak, Jed Pruett and Karl Olsen, who work at Global Thermostat. Tony, Juliana, Dhrumil, Laura and Pranjali attended NAM, in NYC.
March 2022-
Dr. Cornelia Rosu joins W. R Gore after completing her term as a Research Scientist at GT. Farewell Cornelia!
January 2022-
Jones Group alums, Akshay Korde (now Abbvie) and Byunghyun Min (now Phillips 66), discovered the first zeolite nanotubes. A description of their work appear in the January 7 issue of Science. The discovery stemmed from a collaborative project including the Nair, Jones and Sholl groups, sponsored by NSF, aimed at discovering new 1-D or 2-D zeolite materials. Several syntheses using a newly designed SDA resulted in materials with unusual XRD patterns and morphologies, and knowledge from prior work from Nair and Nair/Jones on imogolite nanotube synthesis suggested these new materials were nanotubes. Conclusive structure determination was completed by means of computational modeling coupled with electron microscopy and electron diffraction analysis. The work on the latter two techniques was led by Tom Willhammar at Stockholm University. Check out the paper here.
Collaborating groups: Nair Group, Sholl Group, Willhammar Group
December 2021-
Jacob Cleveland successfully defended his PhD thesis. Jacob will start a postdoctoral position at Los Alamos National Laboratory in early 2022. Congrats Jacob!
October 2021-
Dr. Tony Vallace joins the group after completing his PhD in ChE at Villanova University.
July 2021-
Dr. Iman Nezam completes his postdoctoral studies at Georgia Tech and joins Evonik. Farewell Iman!
June 2021 –
New postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Poori Ilani-Kashkouli, joins the group following postdoctoral studies at Georgia State and UC Davis. Also, Dr. Maddie Ball completes her stay at GT as an Eckert Postdoctoral Fellow, and moves on to start a faculty position as an Assistant Professor at West Virginia University.
May 2021 –
Taylor Hatridge and Max Bukhovko successfully defend their MS and PhD theses. Taylor will move on to law school at the University of Wisconsin, while Max starts a position with Northrup Grumman. Congrats to both!
April 2021-
Dong Kyu Moon completes his postdoctoral stay in the group and returns to Korea to start a job at Hyundai Motors. Also, Dr. Jones is honored with the Georgia Tech Research Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research Innovation.
January 2021-
Four new PhD students join the group! Anu Osibo will work on depolymerization catalysis and Yoseph Guta will study amine adsorbent stability. Both will be co-advised by Prof. Sievers. MinGyu Song will study DAC under unconventional conditions, and will be co-advised by Prof. Lively. Laura Proano will evaluate catalytic sorbents for CO2 capture and conversion in a single, intensified process.
December 2020-
The group welcomes the arrival of new postdoctoral fellow Pranjali Priyadarshini, who recently completed her PhD at the University of Illinois.
October 2020-
We bid farewell to postdoctoral fellow Dharam Kumar and visiting PhD student Wei Zhou. We welcome the arrival of new postdoctoral Fellow Gabriel Short, who recently completed his PhD in chemistry at the University of Florida.
July 2020-
Chris steps down as Editor-in-Chief of ACS Catalysis and is named the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of JACS Au.
https://cen.acs.org/acs-news/publishing/ACS-announces-editorchief-open-access/98/web/2020/08
Learn how Editors-in-Chief are selected by the ACS.
https://axial.acs.org/2020/07/28/selecting-a-new-editor-in-chief-search-committee-insight/
April 2020-
Congratulations to Jason Lee and best wishes as he begins a data science fellowship with Insight!
April 2020-
Congratulations to Akshay Korde and Byunghyun Min for graduating. Akshay will be joining Abbvie in Chicago and Byunghyun will be joining Phillips 66 in Bartlesville, OK.
March 19, 2020-
Jones Group laboratory operations halt due to need for social distancing in the Coronavirus Pandemic. Gloves and safety glasses donated to local area hospitals.
March 2020-
Welcome Dr. Juliana Carneiro to the group!
Congratulations to Claudia Okonkwo for completing her thesis and joining the Boston Consulting Group!
Congratulations to Qandeel Almas for completing her Ph.D. as well!
February 2020-
Congratulations to Max Bukhovko for winning the Best PhD Proposal Award in ChBE!
January 2020-
Welcome Youn Ji Min to the group!
December 2019-
Congratulations to Kristina Golub and best wishes in her next stage at Phillips 66!
October 2019-
Congratulations to the catalysis team for winning the bi-annual Jones Group Olympics!
September 2019-
Welcome Dhrumil Shah, Wei Zhou, and Sasithorn Kuhaudomlap to the Jones Group!
June 2019-
Congratulations Nathan on completing his PhD and joining Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as a post-doctoral fellow. Congrats to Jason Lee on completion of his thesis. Jason will stay on at GT working as a post-doctoral fellow.
April 2019-
Congratulations to Isaiah Borne and Taylor Hatridge on their NSF Fellowship Awards!
August 2018-
Dr. Simon Pang departs GT to take a position at LLNL, returning to his west coast roots. Dr. Michele Sarazen completes her post-doctoral stay in the group to prepare for her start at Princeton University, where she will begin as an Assistant Professor in January.
June 2018-
Dr. Caroline Hoyt heads to her new position as a researcher at NREL.
April-May 2018-
Dr. Hyuk Taek Kwon has completed his appointment in the group, and will move to NETL for his next research position, having made a significant impact on the group. Also, Dr. Lalit Darunte, having recently defended his PhD thesis, heads to DowDupont on his next adventure. Congratulations to both! Dr. Dharam Raj Kumar joins the team after completing his PhD at the University of Manchester.
January 2018-
We wish the best to departing, newly minted PhDs Dr. Taylor Sulmonetti, who is joining Exponent in Atlanta, and Dr. Kiwon Eum, who heads to a post-doctoral position at the University of Minnesota. Joining the group are three new students, Maxim Bukhovko (Tufts U), Jacob Cleveland (Tennessee Tech), and Nima Ronaghi (West Virginia). Congrats also go to Dr. Caroline Hoyt, who completed her PhD thesis in December, and will stay on for a few months of post-doctoral work in the group.
June 2017-
Congratulations Grace Chen on completing your PhD thesis! Off to SRNL for the next step of your career! Best wishes to Dr. Stanley Yang upon your return to Taiwan, to continue your research career there.
May 2017-
Welcome Luiz Henrique Vieira and Kristina Golub to the Jones group!
April 2017-
The group wishes Dr. Steph Didas as she sets off on her next adventure at LBNL after 7+ years in the group as a PhD student, EFRC Managing Director and Group Manager.
March 2017-
Congratulations Claudia Okonkwo on receiving the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Award! and Congratulations to Shilpa Mahamulkar on successfully defending her Ph.D Dissertation!
January 2017-
Congratulations Claudia Okonkwo and Sang Jae Park on successfully passing the Ph.D qualifying exam!
August 2016-
It was announced that Chris won the 2016 Andreas Acrivos Award for Professional Progress from AIChE. This is a tremendous honor recognizing 16 years of research contributions of the Jones Group.
July 2016-
Congratulations to Seung Won and Kiwon on successfully defending your Ph.D theses! Seung Won is now working at LH Chem, and Kiwon is completing a postdoc with Prof. Sankar Nair.
January 2016-
The Jones group welcomes 4 new graduate students – Claudia Okonkwo, Byunghyun Min, Akshay Korde, and Qandeel Almas, a Fullbright Fellow. Additionally, Dr. Hyuk Taek Kwon joined the group after completing his PhD at Texas A&M.
October 2015-
Chris was the featured member of the AAAS in a recent blog on innovative technologies to capture and tame carbon dioxide. Read here.
Dr. Bo Hu joined the group after completing his PhD in chemistry at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
September 2015-
Chris was named the Love Family Professor, ending his appointment of the New-Vision Professor (2011-2015)
Chris was featured in a news story as a leading researcher studying CO2 capture from the ambient air. The story produced by PRI for National Public Radio. Read here.
Welcome Kyeong Min to the Jones Group!
August 2015-
Welcome Duy Thatch Tran to the Jones Group!
July 2015-
Chris was elected a Fellow of the American Chemical Society.
April 2015-
Mica was selected as a Leadership Fellow in the Georgia Tech Leadership Fellows Program.
Simon received the Outstanding Dissertation Award from CU College of Engineering and Applied Science.
Mica won the 2015 Outstanding ChBE Ph.D. Proposal.
Shilpa was recognized for her leadership as Symposium Chair at the 2015 Student Honors Luncheon.
February 2015-
Prof.’s Jones and Nair have been named the Sigma Xi Best Faculty Paper Award Winners for 2014. The annual Georgia Tech award recognizes a paper titled “Interfacial Microfluidic Processing of Metal-Organic Framework Hollow Fiber Membranes,” published July 4 by the journal Science.