People
Our greatest strength is in the people — students, faculty, and staff — who have come together to build our research programs. Catalysis is a multi-disciplinary science, and we welcome faculty and students from across Penn State, each of whom brings their individual excitement and expertise to our endeavors. Because catalysis is a broadly applied field, associated research programs are distributed across the University, and include research groups in the College of Engineering, College of Agriculture, Eberly College of Science, and College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. We also collaborate closely with faculty and staff in the Materials Characterization Lab, the Materials Research Institute, and the Institutes of Energy and the Environment.
Our broad, vibrant, and diverse group of faculty have expertise in research areas at the core of catalysis science. These include reaction kinetics and mechanisms; materials synthesis and characterization; computational modeling; electrochemistry; spectroscopy; and reaction engineering, among others. Because our expertise is distributed across several departments and colleges, we are able to provide students with multiple perspectives and insight into catalytic materials and processes. This also provides multiple contact points for students to interface with catalysis science. For more information on joining one of our associated units, please see the Graduate Studies page.
Our current members are arranged below both by research area and college. Please see individual faculty pages for details on specific research group interests. This large and diverse group of faculty provides an exceptionally broad range of student research opportunities—interested and motivated students are sure to find research projects that match their interests and inspire their professional development.
Our current members are arranged below both by research area and college. Please see individual faculty pages for details on specific research group interests. This large and diverse group of faculty provides an exceptionally broad range of student research opportunities—interested and motivated students are sure to find research projects that match their interests and inspire their professional development.
Affiliated faculty by research area
Heterogeneous Catalysis
Bert Chandler
Steve Chmely
Jim Hodges
Gina Noh
Rob Rioux
Phil Savage
Ray Schaak
Feifei Shi
Ezgi Toraman
Xueyi Zhang
Electrocatalysis
Chris Arges
John Asbury
Ezra Clark
Lauren Greenlee
Derek Hall
Ray Schaak
Lauren Zarzar
Theory and Computation
Konstantinos Alexopoulos
Ismalia Dabo
Mike Janik
Scott Milner
Adri Van Duin
Photocatalysis
John Asbury
Ismaila Dabo
Ben Lear
Christian Pester
Ray Schaak
Surface Science and Spectroscopy
John Asbury
Bert Chandler
Seong Kim
Suzanne Mohney
Homogeneous and Enzymatic Catalysis
Marty Bollinger
Squire Booker
Beth Elacqua
Carsten Krebs
Jonathan Kuo
Affiliated faculty by college
College of Engineering
Department of Chemical Engineering
Konstantinos Alexopoulos
Chris Arges
Bert Chandler
Ezra Clark
Lauren Greenlee
Mike Janik
Seong Kim
Gina Noh
Christian Pester
Rob Rioux
Phil Savage
Adri Van Duin
Xueyi Zhang
Colleges of Agriculture and Engineering
Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Steve Chmely
Eberly College of Science
Department of Chemistry
John Asbury
Marty Bollinger
Squire Booker
Bert Chandler
Beth Elacqua
Jim Hodges
Carsten Krebs
Jonathan Kuo
Ben Lear
Ray Schaak
Lauren Zarzar
College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
Energy and Mineral Engineering
Derek Hall
Feifei Shi
Ezgi Toraman
Materials Science
Ismaila Dabo
Suzanne Mohney
