Dr. Chris Jones
Chris Jones was born in suburban Detroit, Michigan in July of 1973. After spending 14 years in Troy, Michigan, he enrolled as a chemical engineering student at the University of Michigan. In route to earning a BSE in chemical engineering, Chris carried out research on transition metal carbide and nitride catalytic materials under the direction of Levi Thompson. After graduating in 1995, Chris moved to Pasadena, California to study inorganic materials and catalysis under Mark E. Davis at Caltech. There he earned MS and PhD degrees in chemical engineering in 1997 and 1999, respectively. Subsequently, he studied organometallic chemistry and olefin polymerization under the direction of both Davis and John E Bercaw at Caltech. He started as an Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech in the summer of 2000 and was promoted to Associate Professor in July 2005. In May, 2005, he was appointed the J. Carl and Sheila Pirkle Faculty Fellow in the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering. Most recently, in July 2008, he was promoted to Professor.
Education:
BSE Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, 1995
Research Advisor- Levi T. Thompson
MS Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 1997
Research Advisor- Mark E. Davis
PhD Chemical Engineering, Minor - Chemistry California Institute of Technology, 1999
Research Advisor- Mark E. Davis
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 1999-2000
Research Advisors- John E. Bercaw and Mark E. Davis
Honors, Awards, Editorial Boards:
Editorial Board, Journal of Molecular Catalysis A. Chemical, 2007-
Editorial Board, Applied Catalysis A. General, 2007-
Editorial Board, Organic Reactions Catalysis Society, 2007-2008
Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, National Academy of Engineering, Invited Participant, 2005
J. Carl and Sheila Pirkle Faculty Fellow, 2005-2008
DuPont Young Professor Award, 2005
Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award, 2004
Young Scientists Prize, 13th International Congress on Catalysis, 2004
CETL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, 2004
CAREER AWARD, National Science Foundation, 2002-2007
Ralph Powe Award, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, 2001
Junior Faculty Award, Shell Oil Company Foundation, 2001, 2002, 2003
Innovation Recognition Award, Union Carbide, 1999
William Corcoran Fellowship, Caltech, 1995
James B. Angell Scholar, Michigan, 1994-1995
William Branstrom Freshman Prize, Michigan, 1992
Invited Lectures:
Universities
1. Seminar, University of Florida, Department of Chemical Engineering, February 2003
2. Seminar, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, May 2003
3. Seminar, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, Department of Chemical Engineering, September 2003
4. Seminar, University of Virginia, Department of Chemical Engineering, October 2003
5. Seminar, Wayne State University, Department of Chemistry, October 2003
6. Seminar, University of Windsor, Department of Chemistry, October 2003
7. Seminar, Lehigh University, Department of Chemistry, October 2003
8. Seminar, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Chemical Engineering, April 2004
9. Seminar, University of Texas, Department of Chemical Engineering, November 2004
10. Seminar, University of Michigan, Department of Chemical Engineering, March 2005
11. Seminar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Chemistry, March 2005
12. Seminar, University of South Carolina, Department of Chemical Engineering, April 2005
13. Seminar, Texas A&M University, Department of Chemical Engineering, October 2005
14. Seminar, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Polymer, Textile and Fiber Engineering, January 2006
15. Seminar, University of Colorado, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, January 2006
16. Seminar, Purdue University, Department of Chemical Engineering, January 2006
17. Seminar, Tennessee Technological University, Department of Chemical Engineering, February 2006
18. Seminar, California Institute of Technology, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, May 2006
19. Seminar, University of California, Davis, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, October 2006
20. Seminar, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Van't Hoff Institute of Molecular Sciences, Netherlands, February 2007
21. Seminar, Technische Universität München, Department of Chemistry, Germany, September 2007
22.
Seminar, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Netherlands, September 2007
23. Seminar, Mississippi State University, School of Chemical Enineering, October 2007
24. Seminar, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, October 2007
25. Seminar, University of Tokyo, Department of Chemical System Engineering, October, 2007
26. Seminar, University of Minnesota, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, March 2008.
27. Seminar, Stanford University, Department of Chemical Engineering, May 2008.
28. Seminar, Inha University, Department of Chemistry, July 2008.
29. Seminar, Stanford University, Global Climate and Energy Project, December 2008.
30. Seminar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, December 2008.
31. Seminar, Texas A&M University, Department of Chemical Engineering, February 2009.
32. Seminar, Northwestern University, Center for Catalysis and Surface Science, April 2009.
33. Seminar, University of Delaware, Department of Chemical Engineering, September 2009.
34. Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, November 2009.
Industry and Government
1. Degussa Inc., Calvert City, KY, October, 2003.
2. Department of Energy - Catalysis Contractor's Meeting, Rockville, MD, May 2004.
3. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, August 2004
4. Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, TN, September 2004.
5. Department of Energy - Catalysis Contractor's Meeting, Rockville, MD, May 2004.
6. Lonza Group, Ltd., Visp, Switzerland, July 2005.
7. National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh, PA, September 2005.
8. Dow Chemical Company, Freeport, TX, November 2005.
9. Dow Chemical Company, Terneuzen, Netherlands, February, 2007.
10. Chevron Technology Ventures, Houston, TX, April 2007.
11. Chevron Corporation, Richmond, CA, November, 2007.
12. Dow Chemical Company, Midland, MI, January 2008.
13. UOP Invitational Lecture Series, Des Plaines, IL, April 2009
Conferences:
1. Design and Synthesis of Nanoscale Catalytic Materials, 3rd Chemical Engineering Conference for Collaboration in the Eastern Mediterranean, Thessalaniki, Greece, May 2003
2. E.V. Murphree Award Session Honoring Mark E. Davis, 229th ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, March, 2005
3. George A. Olah Award Session Honoring Enrique Iglesia, 229th ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 2005
4. Nanoparticles, Colloids and Surfaces in Advanced Catalytic Materials, 79th ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium, Potsdam, NY, June 2005
5. Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Section, China/USA/Japan Joint ChE Conference, Beijing, China, October 2005
6. G. Somorjai Award Session Honoring James Dumesic, 231st ACS National Meeting, Atlanta, GA, March 2006
7. Gordon Research Conference - Catalysis, Colby Sawyer College, New London, NH, June 2006
8. Keynote Lecture on New Catalytic Materials and Supports, 20th North American Meeting, North American Catalysis Society, Houston, TX, June 2007
9. Catalysis in Nano-spaces, Kanagawa University, Yokohama, Japan, October 2007
10. G. Somorjai Award Session Honoring Avelino Corma, 235th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 2008
11. Catalysis for Sustainable Society, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, July 2008
12. Workshop on Nanotechnologies for Thermal and Solar Energy Conversion and Storage, Jacksonville, FL, August 2008
13. ASME 3rd Energy Nanotechnology International Conference, Jacksonville, FL, August 2008
14. Gordon Research Conference - Chemical Reactions at Surfaces, Ventura, CA, February 2009
15. Catalyst Synthesis, 237th ACS National Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, March 2009
16. Keynote Lecture, 14th International Conference on the Relations Between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis, Stockholm, Sweden, September 2009
Courses Taught (past, present, future):
ChE 2100 Chemical Process Principles - Sp 2000, Fa 2005
ChE 4300 Kinetics and Reactor Design - Fa 2001, Fa 2002, Sp 2003
ChBE 4515 Chemical Process Safety - Sp 2002, Su 2002, Su 2003, Sp 2004, Su 2004, Sp 2006, Su 2006, Sp 2007, Su 2007
ChBE 4535 Chemical Product Design, Engineering and Optimization - Fa 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
ChBE 6300 Kinetics and Reactor Design - Sp 2008, Fa 2008, Fa 2009
ChBE 8803 Catalytic Chemistry and Engineering – Sp 2005