Plenaryst

GEORGE W. HUBER University of Wisconsin-Madison	George Willis Huber is the Richard Antoine Professor of Chemical Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison.  His research focus is on developing new catalytic processes for the production of renewable liquid fuels and chemicals.  Professor Huber has won several awards including the AICHE Colburn award, 2015-17 Thomson Reuters “highly cited researcher” and has been named one of the top 100 people in Bioenergy by Biofuels Digest. He is co-founder of Anellotech and Pyran. Professor Huber received a visiting professorship from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2015 where He worked with Professor Tao Zhang at Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics.  He has also received a visiting professorship from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and the ExxonMobil Visiting Chair Professor at National University of Singapore. Professor Huber did a post-doctoral stay with Avelino Corma at the Technical Chemical Institute at the Polytechnical University of Valencia, Spain (UPV-CSIC). Professor Huber obtained his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison (2005). He obtained his B.S. (1999) and M.S. (2000) degrees in Chemical Engineering from Brigham Young University.
MATTHEW NEUROCK  University of Minnesota	Matt Neurock is the Shell Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota. He received his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Michigan State University and his Ph.D. from the University of Delaware in 1992.  He worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands from 1992-1993 and subsequently as Visiting Scientist in the Corporate Catalysis Center at DuPont from 1993-1994. He joined the faculty in Chemical Engineering at the University of Virginia in 1995 where he held joint appointments in Chemical Engineering and Chemistry. In 2014 he moved to the University of Minnesota and is currently on the faculty in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science.  He has made seminal advances to development and application of computational methods toward understanding catalytic and electrocatalytic reaction mechanisms, and the sites and environments that carry out reactions under working conditions. He has received various awards for his research in computational catalysis and molecular reaction engineering including the Robert Burwell Lectureship from the North American Catalysis Society, the R.H. Wilhelm Award in Chemical Reaction Engineering from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the Paul H. Emmett Award in Fundamental Catalysis from the North American Catalysis Society. He has co-authored over 250 papers, two patents and two books. He serves on numerous other editorial and advisory boards and served as an editor for the Journal of Catalysis for 10 years.

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