Invited Seminars and Lectures

  • Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering, Stockholm, Sweden, Mesoporous carbon materials for energy conversion and storage: understanding and design at an atomic level, September 18, 2024.
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden, Harnessing the properties of membrane proteins in mesostructured hybrid materials, September 17, 2024.
  • Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Gothenburg, Sweden, Heterogeneous zeolite catalysts for environmental and chemical manufacturing applications: Understanding and correlating composition, structure, and properties at an atomic level, September 16, 2024.
  • AstraZeneca, Mölndal, Sweden, Biomolecule interactions and properties at silicate surfaces or in silica nanopores, September 9, 2024.
  • Chevron Energy Company, Richmond, California, Nanoscale structures and macroscopic properties of platinum-zeolite catalysts, August 20, 2024.
  • BASF, Ludwigshafen, Germany, Measuring and understanding heterogeneous catalyst properties at an atomic level, June 26, 2024.
  • University of Bayreuth, Germany, Analogies among heat, mass, & polarization transport in solids, May 28, 2024.
  • University of Bayreuth, Germany, New mesostructured materials for energy conversion and storage: Understanding and design at the atomic level, May 27, 2024.
  • University of Florence, Department of Chemistry, Florence, Italy, Compositions, structures, and properties of biogenic carbonates and biomimetic silica-protein materials, November 14, 2023. 
  • Arizona State University, School of Molecular Sciences, Tempe, Arizona, Non-precious-metal mesoporous N-carbon electrocatalysts for fuel cells and batteries, October 25, 2023. 
  • National Technical University of Athens, Department of Chemical Engineering, Athens, Greece, Compositional and structural order at inorganic-organic interfaces, July 7, 2023.
  • Chevron Energy Company, Richmond, California, Correlating nanoscale compositions, structures, and reaction properties of bifunctional Pt-H+USY zeolite catalysts, April 25, 2023.
  • Princeton University, Department of Chemical Engineering, Measuring and understanding heterogeneous catalyst properties at an atomic level, February 22, 2023.
  • Arizona State University, School for Engineering Matter, Transport, and Energy, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tempe, Arizona, Measuring and understanding heterogeneous catalyst properties at an atomic level, October 17, 2022. 
  • Texas A&M University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College Station, Texas, Measuring and understanding heterogeneous catalyst properties at an atomic level, September 19, 2022.
  • Chevron Energy Company, Richmond, California, Nanoscale structures and macroscopic properties of platinum-zeolite catalysts, April 13, 2021. (virtual)
  • Brandeis University, Department of Chemistry, Waltham, Massachusetts, New mesoporous nitrogen-carbon materials for electrochemical energy conversion applications: Understanding and design at the atomic-level, February 8, 2021. (virtual)
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Troy, New York, New mesoporous carbon materials for electrochemical device applications, November 4, 2020. (virtual)
  • Columbia University, Department of Chemical Engineering, New York, Measuring and understanding heterogeneous catalyst properties at an atomic level, October 27, 2020. (virtual)
  • Ohio State University, Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Columbus, Ohio, Quantitative scaling analyses of polarization in solids, January 14, 2020.
  • Ohio State University, Department of Chemistry, Columbus, Ohio, Dopant atoms in “crystalline” solids, January 13, 2020.
  • BASF, Inc., Iselin, New Jersey, Measuring and understanding zeolite catalysts at an atomic level, November 11, 2019.
  • National Institute of Standards and Technology, Materials Science and Engineering Division, Gaithersburg, Maryland, Measuring, understanding, and modifying cement hydration at a molecular level, October 11, 2019.
  • Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm University, Sweden, Membrane proteins in micelles and surfactant-silica matrices, June 14, 2019.
  • BASF, Inc., Ludwigshafen, Germany, Measuring and understanding zeolite catalysts at an atomic level, May 24, 2019.
  • Svenska Aerogel, Inc., Gävle, Sweden, Analyzing and controlling the surface chemistry of silica, May 21, 2019.
  • Virginia Tech, Department of Chemistry, Blacksburg, Virginia, Atomic-level influences on conjugated carbon material properties for opto-electronic and electrochemical applications, January 25, 2019. 
  • Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie, Université de Lille, France, Polarization transfer across dissimilar surfaces in DNP-NMR, December 18, 2018.
  • Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie, Université de Lille, France, Dopants in “crystalline” solids: Order and disorder in heterogeneous oxide phosphors and catalysts, December 17, 2018.
  • McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada,  Departments of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Self-assembly and crystallization of mesoporous catalytic materials, September 20, 2018.
  • School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Waurn Ponds, Australia, Measuring and understanding heterogeneous catalysts at an atomic level, August 23, 2018.
  • Institute for Frontier Materials, Deakin University, Waurn Ponds, Australia, Molecular-level influences on conjugated carbon material properties for opto-electronic and electrochemical applications, August 20, 2018.
  • Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne Australia, Heteroatom dopants in “crystalline” solids: Measuring and understanding heterogeneous catalysts at an atomic level, August 15, 2018.
  • Australian Centre for Infrastructure Durability, Deakin University, Burwood, Melbourne, Australia, Measuring, understanding, and modifying hydration and crystallization properties of structural materials, August 14, 2018.
  • Australian Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science, Deakin University, Burwood, Melbourne, Australia, Compositions, structures, and properties of non-precious-metal mesoporous carbon electrocatalysts, August 9, 2018.
  • Ècole Politechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Department of Chemical Engineering, Lausanne, Switzerland, Crystallization and Its Discontents: Understanding the molecular-level factors that influence order, disorder, and the properties of opto-electronic and catalytic materials, June 29, 2018.
  • Florida State University, Tallahassee, Dept. of Chemistry, Dopants in “crystalline” solids: Understanding the influences of local compositions and structures on the properties of solid-state phosphors and heterogeneous catalysts, February 23, 2018.
  • University of Wisconsin, Madison, Dept. of Chemistry, Dopants in “crystalline” solids: order and disorder in heterogeneous oxide phosphors and catalysts, January 18, 2018.
  • Georgia Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemistry, Atomic-level order, disorder, and interactions in conjugated polymers and blends, January 16, 2018.
  • ExxonMobil, Clinton, New Jersey, Measuring and understanding heteroatom sites and supported platinum species in heterogeneous catalysts, November 20, 2017.
  • University of Texas, El Paso, Dept. of Chemistry, Understanding the influences of local order and disorder on optoelectronic material properties, October 13, 2017.
  • Institute Néel, Grenoble, France, Order and disorder in heterogeneous oxide phosphors and catalysts, June 1, 2017.
  • Washington University of St. Louis,  Missouri, Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, Understanding surface properties of heterogeneous materials at a molecular level, February 6, 2017.