Hottel Lecture: Building a Sustainable, Circular, and Low-Carbon Chemical Industry
Building 66, Room 110, 25 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA
Speaker: Dionisios G. Vlachos, Unidel Dan Rich Chair in Energy Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering; Director, Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation (CCEI); Director, Delaware Energy Institute (DEI); University of Delaware Dionisios (Dion) G. Vlachos is the Unidel Dan Rich Energy Chaired Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware, where he also serves as Director of the Delaware Energy Institute (DEI). From 2009 to 2024, he directed the Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation (CCEI), an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the Department of Energy. Vlachos received his five-year diploma in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 1987, followed by his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1990 and 1992, and a postdoctoral appointment at Minnesota's Army High-Performance Computing Research Center. He began his academic career at the University of Massachusetts in 1993, was promoted to associate professor in 1998, and joined the University of Delaware in 2000. Over his career, he has held visiting appointments at Princeton University (spring 2000), Thomas…