Presentations at Conferences and Symposia

  • 8th SMARTER Conference on NMR Crystallography, Aveiro, Portugal, Correlated distributions of Pt guest species, exchangeable cations, and framework sites in Pt-zeolite catalysts, September 23, 2024. (plenary)
  • 12th International Mesostructured Materials Symposium, Montpellier, France, Mesostructured materials with controllable long-range orientational ordering and anisotropic properties, July 11, 2024.
  • 52nd Winter Meeting on Statistical Physics, Sociedad de Física Mexicana, Puebla, Mexico, Co-assembly of functionally-active membrane proteins in mesostructured silica, January 11, 2024 (plenary)
  • Consortium for Pan-European Solid-State NMR Infrastructure for Chemistry-Enabling Access (PANACEA) Annual Meeting,  Florence, Italy, Solid-state NMR analyses of the compositions, structures, & reaction properties of zeolite catalysts, November 15, 2023. (plenary)
  • Global NMR Discussion Zoominar, Scaling analyses of hyperpolarization transfer in solids and across interfaces, November 7, 2023. (invited-virtual)
  • American Chemical Society meeting, San Francisco, California, Characterizing dilute near-surface compositions & structures of low-surface-area inorganic materials by solid-state DNP-NMR, August 13, 2023. (invited)
  • Workshop on Calorimetric Analyses of Zeolites, Arizona State University, Analyzing and controlling zeolite crystallization, compositions, and structures, May 26, 2023. (invited)
  • BASF CARA Workshop, University of California, Berkeley Measuring and understanding zeolite catalyst properties at an atomic level, April 21, 2023. (invited)
  • Practical Applications of NMR in Industry Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, Analyzing zeolite catalyst properties at an atomic level by solid-state NMR, March 13, 2023. (invited)
  • Symposium in Honor of Prof. Dr. Hans Wolfgang Spiess’ 80th Birthday, Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany, Compositions, structures, and properties of high-N-content mesoporous carbon electrocatalysts analyzed by solid-state NMR, November 18, 2022. (invited)
  • American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ National Meeting, Phoenix, Oxygen and sulfur reduction activities of high N-content nanoporous Fe,N-carbon electrocatalysts correlate with atomic-scale compositions and structures, November 15, 2022.
  • Eastern Analytical Symposium, Plainsboro, New Jersey, Scaling analyses of hyperpolarization transfer from paramagnetic centers in solid media, November 14, 2022. (invited, Award Symposium Honoring Dr. Philip Grandinetti for Outstanding Achievements in Magnetic Resonance)
  • Southern California Magnetic Resonance Workshop, Santa Barbara, California, Scaling analyses of hyperpolarization transfer across interfaces in DNP-NMR, September 24, 2022. (invited) 
  • Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies, U.S. Army Research Office Technical Assessment Board Review, Santa Barbara, California, Harnessing Membrane Protein Properties in Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Materials, September 12, 2022. (invited)
  • Workshop on Lignocellulose-Based Thermoplastics, Uddevalla, Sweden, Saccharide interactions at silicate surfaces: Atomic-level understanding for structural materials applications, August 25, 2022. (keynote)
  • 20th International Zeolite Conference, Valencia, Spain, Correlated distributions of Pt guest species, exchangeable cations, and framework sites in Pt-zeolite catalysts,  July 5, 2022. 
  • American Physical Society Spring Meeting, Chicago, Functionally active membrane protein molecules in mesostructured silica films,  March 18, 2022.
  • Workshop on Synthetic Control Across Length-scales for Advancing Rechargeables, UCLA, Novel non-precious-metal carbon material electrocatalysts for LiS batteries, September 10, 2021.
  • Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies, U.S. Army Research Office Technical Assessment Board Review, Santa Barbara, California, Harnessing Membrane Protein Properties in Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Materials, June 2, 2021. (invited)
  • Global NMR Zoominar, Scaling analyses of hyperpolarization transfer from paramagnetic centers into solid media, March 9, 2021. (invited-virtual)
  • European Sustainability Chemistry Seminar Series, New mesoporous carbon materials for electrochemical energy conversion applications, March 2, 2021. (invited-virtual)
  • Workshop on Synthetic Control Across Length-scales for Advancing Rechargeables, UCLA, Understanding and optimizing compositions, structures, and properties of new materials for electrochemical energy conversion and storage, November 16, 2020. (invited-virtual)
  • Symposium on Lignocellulose-Based Thermoplastics, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, Atomic-scale analyses of heterogeneous organic materials, August 27, 2020. (invited-virtual)
  • Workshop on Synthetic Biology and Materials Science, U.S. Army Futures Command, Durham, North Carolina, Materials for Advanced Protection: Analyses & design of hierarchical materials derived from biology, July 29, 2020 (invited-virtual)
  • 61st Annual Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, Materials for energy conversion and storage: understanding and design at an atomic level, March 11, 2020. (invited)
  • Workshop on Synthetic Biology and Materials Science, U.S. Army Development Command Soldier Center, Natick, Massachusetts, Harnessing membrane protein properties in inorganic-organic hybrid materials, September 24, 2019 (invited)
  • Alpine Conference on Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy, Chamonix, France, NMR for materials science, September 17, 2019. (invited perspective)
  • Alpine Conference on Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy, Chamonix, France, Quantitative scaling analyses of dynamic nuclear polarization transfer across dissimilar interfaces, September 16, 2019. (plenary)
  • Seventh Chalmers-UCSB Workshop on Materials Science and Engineering, Gothenburg, Sweden, Measuring & understanding zeolite catalyst properties at an atomic level, June 18, 2019. (invited)
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering, Symposium on the Importance of Materials in Society, Stockholm, Sweden, Materials for energy conversion and storage: understanding and design at an atomic level, May 14, 2019.  (keynote)
  • Frontiers of Silica Workshop, Chalmers University of Technology, Understanding hydration & dissolution of silica and silicates at the nanoscale, April 23, 2019. (invited)
  • BASF California Research Alliance Workshop-Review, University of California, Berkeley, Understanding heteroatom and cation influences on zeolite catalyst properties, November 9, 2018.
  • Workshop on Chemistry and Processing of Structural Solids, U.S. Army Engineering Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, Mississippi, Structural Materials with Enhanced Resilience and Response Properties, Sept. 22, 2018. (invited)
  • Office of Naval Research Workshop on Organic and Hybrid Photovoltaics, Georgia Tech, Correlating atomic-level compositions, structures, and opto-electronic properties of donor-acceptor conjugated polymers, Sept. 19, 2018. (invited)
  • 10th International Mesostructured Materials Symposium, Los Angeles, California, Functionally active membrane protein molecules incorporated in mesostructured silica films, September 12, 2018. (Conference organizer)
  • 22nd International Mineralogical Association Conference, Melbourne, Australia, Measuring and understanding adsorption-mediated hydration at silicate particle surfaces, August 16, 2018. (keynote)
  • Workshop on Nano- and Mesostructured Materials, Max-Planck-Institute für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim, Germany, Atomic-level understanding of functional species in nanostructured materials, July 13, 2018. (invited)
  • European Conference on Magnetic Resonance (EuroMAR), Nantes, France, Molecular-level order, disorder, and interactions in conjugated polymers and blends from solid-state NMR, July 3, 2018. (plenary)
  • 8th International Colloid Conference, Shanghai, Peoples Republic of China, Organic molecules at inorganic surfaces: Understanding atomic-level interactions that govern the properties of hybrid colloids, June 10, 2018. (invited)
  • Mitsubishi Center for Advanced Materials Workshop-Review, UCSB, Measuring and understanding compositions and structures of heterogeneous materials by solid-state NMR, April 26, 2018.
  • BASF California Research Alliance Workshop-Review, UCSB, Understanding heteroatom and cation influences on zeolite catalyst properties, April 24, 2018.
  • American Chemical Society National Meeting, New Orleans, Compositions and structures of high-N-content mesoporous carbon electrocatalysts analyzed by solid-state NMR, March 21, 2018. (invited) 
  • American Chemical Society National Meeting, New Orleans, Molecular-level order, disorder & interactions in conjugated polymers and blends from solid-state NMR, March 20, 2018. (invited) 
  • The 14th International Bologna Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Porous Media, Gainesville, Florida, Molecular environments and interactions of adsorbed molecules in nanoporous solids, February, 20, 2018. (invited)
  • Workshop on Structural Materials, Engineering Research and Development Center and UCSB, Synthesis and characterization of composite materials, October, 10, 2017.
  • International Society of Magnetic Resonance, Quebec City, Canada, NMR analyses of order, disorder, and surface interactions of nanoscale semiconductors, July 24, 2017. (keynote) 
  • Comprehensive Program Review, Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies, UCSB, Anisotropic nanostructured materials for electrochemical and photovoltaic energy conversion and storage , June 21, 2017.
  • Workshop on Solid-State NMR, U.K. High-Field NMR Facility, University of Warwick, U.K., Compositions, structures and properties of nanoscale semiconductors, April 6, 2017. (invited)
  • Workshop on Bio-Inspired Materials, U.S. Army Research Laboratory-WMRD, Aberdeen, Maryland, Atomic-level analysis and engineering of bio-inspired functional materials, February 15, 2017. (invited) 
  • Workshop on Cementious Materials, Federal Highway Administration, McLean, Virginia, Measuring, understanding, and modifying cement hydration at a molecular level, January 25, 2017. (invited)