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Departments: Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Time: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Type: Seminar Series
Presenter: Johannes A. Lercher, Tech University of Munich
Room/Office: 211 Mason Laboratory
Location:
Mason Laboratory
9 Hillhouse Avenue Mason Lab 211
New Haven, CT 06511
United States
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Johannes A. Lercher, studied Chemistry at TU Wien, receiving his PhD in 1981 at the same institution. After a visiting lectureship at Yale University, he joined TU Wien as lecturer. 1993 he was appointed Professor in the Department of Chemical Technology at the University Twente, the Netherlands and in 1998 in the Department of Chemistry of TU München, Germany. Since 2011 he is also Director of the Institute for Integrated Catalysis at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA. He is external member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and Member of the Academia Europaea as well as Honorary Professor at several institutions in China.  Author of over 450 papers and 15 patents, he is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Catalysis. Recent awards include the Kozo Tanabe Award for Acid-Base Catalysis, the Burwell Lectureship of the North American Catalysis Society and the Francois Gault Lecturship of the Federation of European Catalysis Societies.

 

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