Speaker: Prof.Christopher W. Jones, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Time: 14:00 p.m., August 1, 2023, GMT+8

Venue: College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Room A717

Biography:

Professor Jones is the John F. Brock III School Chair and Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech. He joined Georgia Tech as an Assistant Professor in 2000 and then rose through the ranks, including serving as Associate Vice President for Research from 2013-2019, with a period as Interim Executive Vice President for Research in 2018.

Dr. Jones leads a research group that works on materials, catalysis and adsorption. He is known for his extensive and pioneering work on materials that extract CO2 fromultra-dilute mixtures such as ambient air, which are key components of direct air capture (DAC) technologies. He served on the National Academies Consensus Study onNegative Emissions Technologies and Reliable Sequestration in 2017-2018, focusing or DAC.

He also has produced an extensive body of work in catalysis. Dr. Jones was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal, ACS Catalysis, and is Vice-President of the North American Catalysis Society. He was selected in 2020 to launch the new operaccess American Chemical Society journal, JACS Au. (Read as Jacks Gold)

Jones' work in both catalysis and CO2 separation has been recognized with awards from numerous organizations including the ACS, ASEE, AIChE and the NorthAmerican Catalysis Society. Georgia Tech has recognized Jones as the Institute' Outstanding Faculty Research Author (2011), for Research Program Development (2012) and for Research Innovation (2021). In 2022, he was elected to the US National Academyof Engineering.

Source: College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering