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  • Fri, Sep 04
    Mellichamp Sustainability
    Sep 04, 2020, 7:00 PM
    Mellichamp Sustainability, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
    Helin Cox is a Senior Manager in the Digital Transformation Center within the Petrochemicals and Refining Technologies Business at Honeywell UOP.
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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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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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Surface Structural-Chemical Characterization of Single-Site Supported Organometallic Catalysts

DR. NING YAN

Assistant Professor
National University of Singapore


 

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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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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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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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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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Insights Into Fast Ion Conductors From Solid-State NMR/MRI

YUNHO LEE

Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry, KAIST

 

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Coordination Chemistry of 1st-row Transition Metal Pincer Complexes

DR. LEAH STOKES

Assistant Professor

Political Science, UC Santa Barbara

 

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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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Novel Insights in the Role of Solvent in Catalytic Processes

DR. ZYGMUNT FLISAK

Assistant Professor
Chemistry, University of Opole, Poland

 

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Staying One Step Ahead: Fighting Unfavorable Kinetics During the Chemical Upgrading of Biomass

AARON SIEGMUND

Senior Scientist

Medicinal Chemistry, Amgen, Inc.

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Green Chemistry Awareness in Drug Discovery

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