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Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos
Robert and Marcy Haber Endowed Professor in Energy Sustainability
Graduate Program Chair, Department of Chemical and
Biological Engineering
Lab:
Nano Catalysis and
Energy Laboratory
Education:
B.S., Chemical Engineering, National Technical
University of Athens, Greece
M.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Florida
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 previous work experience was with MIT's 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 sustainable energy. A focus of her work
is the understanding of metal-metal and metal-oxide interaction at the
atomic scale to guide the synthesis of new catalysts that maximize the
yields of desired products, while using only trace amounts of expensive
noble metals. At Tufts, she directs the Nanocatalysis and Energy Laboratory.
Since 2002, she has served as Editor of Applied Catalysis B: Environmental.
In 2009, she was named the inaugural Robert and Marcy Haber Endowed
Professor in Energy Sustainability in the School of Engineering.
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; Current Opinions in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Mellon Senior Faculty Research Semester Fellowship (Fall 2006)
- Distinguished Scholar Award, Tufts University (2007)
- Henry J. Albert award, International Precious Metals Institute (2008)
- Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2008)
- Elected Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (2009)
- Robert and Marcy Haber Endowed Professorship in Energy Sustainability (2009)
- 2nd Vice Chair, AIChE/CRE Division (2012)
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:
- Gold Nanocatalysts
- Fuel Processing and Fuel Cells
- Atomically Dispersed Supported Metal Catalysts
- High-temperature Desulfurization Sorbents
- Methane-SCR deNOx Catalysts
- Metal/Metal Oxide Nanocluster Synthesis
- Selective Hydrogenation Alloy Nanocatalysts
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