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Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos
Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Lab:
Nano Catalysis and
Energy Laboratory
Education:
1973 B.S., Chemical Engineering, National Technical
University of Athens, Greece
1975 M.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Florida
1978 Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota
Brief Biography:
Dr. Flytzani-Stephanopoulos joined the Chemical Engineering Faculty
of Tufts University as the Raytheon Professor of Pollution Prevention
in January 1994. Her prior appointments were at MIT, Department of
Chemical Engineering, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena,
CA. Her research uses heterogeneous catalysis principles to solve
problems in the production of clean and efficient energy. Specifically,
she investigates properties of nanoscale metal oxides as catalysts and
sorbents for fuel processing and the production of hydrogen for fuel
cell applications. At Tufts, she directs the Nanocatalysis and Energy
Laboratory. Since 2002, she has served as Editor of Applied Catalysis
B: Environmental.
Honors and Awards:
- NASA - Space Act Award and Certificate of
Recognition (1987)
- NSF - Career Advancement Award (1987)
- Associate Director of the ERRC (Emissions Reduction
Research Center); NSF /Ind./Univ.(MIT, NJIT, OSU, PSU)
Cooperative Center (1992-97)
- Tufts University - Raytheon Professorship in
Pollution Prevention (1994-99)
- UNIDO – Lectureship, Beijing Research Institute of
Coal Chemistry, Beijing, PRC (1994)
- Editorial Board, Applied Catalysis B:
Environmental (1998-2002)
- Director, AIChE/CRE Division (2001- 2004)
- Editor, North and South America, Applied
Catalysis B: Environmental (2002-)
- Advisory Board, Energy and Fuels (2003-)
- Mellon Senior Faculty Research Semester Fellowship
(Fall 2006)
- 2007 Distinguished Scholar Award, Tufts University
- 2008 Henry J. Albert award, International Precious
Metals Institute
- 2008 Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2009 Elected Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Courses Taught:
- ChE 103/160 Reaction Kinetics of Chemical and Biological Systems
- ChE 22 Heat and Mass Transfer
- ChE 173 Clean Energy Technologies and Policy
- ChE 102 Chemical and Biological Reactor Design
- EN 65 Fuel Cell Technology
Research Interests:
- Fuel Processing and Fuel Cells
- Redox Catalysis at the Nanoscale
- Regenerable Desulfurization Sorbents
- Lean-NOx Reduction Catalysts
- Nanocrystal metal/oxide synthesis
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