Mellichamp Academic Initiative in Sustainability at UC Santa Barbara
Sustainable Materials and Product Design
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- Fri, Sep 04Mellichamp SustainabilitySep 04, 2020, 7:00 PMMellichamp Sustainability, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USAHelin Cox is a Senior Manager in the Digital Transformation Center within the Petrochemicals and Refining Technologies Business at Honeywell UOP.
PAST MELLICHAMP SEMINAR SPEAKERS
WENYU HUANG
Iowa State University, Department of Chemistry,
Ames Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy
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Nanostructure-Controlled Heterogeneous Catalysts with Superior Catalytic Properties
DR. CHAO-JUN LI
Department of Chemistry and
FQRNT Center for Green Chemistry and Catalysis,
McGill University
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SEMINAR
Exploration of New Chemical Reactivities for Synthetic Efficiency
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DR. MASSIMILIANO DELFERRO
Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division
Argonne National Laboratory
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SEMINAR
Surface Structural-Chemical Characterization of Single-Site Supported Organometallic Catalysts
DR. NING YAN
Assistant Professor
National University of Singapore
SEMINAR
Shell Biorefinery: Dream or Reality?
MARC A. HILLMYER
McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair
Director of the Center for Sustainable Polymers
University of Minnesota, Department of Chemistry
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SEMINAR
Renewable, Degradable, and High-Performing Aliphatic Polyester Elastomers
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DR. JILLIAN L. DEMPSEY
Assistant Professor
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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SEMINAR
Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Processes Underpinning the Production of Renewable Fuels
DR. EVERT JAN MEIJER
Principal Scientist and Group Leader
Electrochemistry, Materials and Catalysis Research
Honeywell UOP
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SEMINAR
Well-Defined Catalysts for Hydrocarbon Transformations: Supported Single Atom and Zeolite Catalysis
DR. YAN-YAN HU
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Florida State University
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SEMINAR
Insights Into Fast Ion Conductors From Solid-State NMR/MRI
YUNHO LEE
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry, KAIST
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SEMINAR
Coordination Chemistry of 1st-row Transition Metal Pincer Complexes
DR. LEAH STOKES
Assistant Professor
Political Science, UC Santa Barbara
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SEMINAR
Thoughts on Working at the Interface of Science and Policy
DR. EVERT JAN MEIJER
Computational Chemistry
Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences
University of Amsterdam
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SEMINAR
Novel Insights in the Role of Solvent in Catalytic Processes
DR. ZYGMUNT FLISAK
Assistant Professor
Chemistry, University of Opole, Poland
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SEMINAR
The Role of Ligands and Cocatalysts in the Classical, Metallocene and Post-Metallocene Catalysts of Olefin Polymerization Investigated by Molecular Modeling
DR. YOGI SURENDRANATH
Paul M. Cook Career Development
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry, MIT
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SEMINAR
Bridging Molecular and Heterogeneous Electrocatalysis Through Graphite Conjugation
DR. DARREN J. MARTIN
Senior Group Leader at the Australian Institute Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN)
The University of Queensland, Australia
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SEMINAR
Cellulose nanofibres from spinifex arid grasses: “Greener, Longer and Tougher”, thanks to 20 million years of resilient adaptation
JOSHUA SCHAIDLE
Co-Director, Chemical Catalysis for bioenergy Consortium
Manager, Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Platform, National Bioenergy Center, National Renewable Energy Lab
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SEMINAR
Enabling Production of Biofuels and Biochemicals through Catalysis: NREL’s Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Platform
DR. ROBERT FRANCKE
Institut für Chemie, Rostock University
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SEMINAR
New Approaches to Indirect Electrosynthesis
MICHAEL A. REYNOLDS, PH.D
Regional Discipline Lead for Production Chemistry at Shell Exploration and Production Company
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SEMINAR
A Day in the Life of a Production Chemist: Applying Chemistry to Hydraulic Fracturing
NICHOLAS A. BRUNELLI, PH.D
Assistant Professor, H. C. “Slip” Slider Professorship
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio State University
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SEMINAR
Designing Catalytic Materials on the Atomic Level for Sustainable Biomass Conversion
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JEREMY LUTERBACHER
Assistant Professor, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Switzerland
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SEMINAR
Staying One Step Ahead: Fighting Unfavorable Kinetics During the Chemical Upgrading of Biomass
AARON SIEGMUND
Senior Scientist
Medicinal Chemistry, Amgen, Inc.