Umit S. Ozkan
Dis­tin­guished Pro­fes­sor of Chem­i­cal Engi­neer­ing
The Ohio State Uni­ver­si­ty
 
Umit Ozkan received her Ph.D from Iowa State Uni­ver­si­ty in 1984 and joined the OSU fac­ul­ty in 1985.

She has edit­ed five books, writ­ten over 200 ref­er­eed pub­li­ca­tions and book chap­ters, and has five patents, all in catal­y­sis area. She has held many lead­er­ship posi­tions in pro­fes­sion­al orga­ni­za­tions. She served as the Co-chair of the Con­tin­u­ing Sym­posia in Catal­y­sis for the ACS Col­loids and Sur­face Chem­istry Divi­sion (1994–2000), mem­ber of the Board of Direc­tors of the Catal­y­sis and Reac­tion Engi­neer­ing Divi­sion of AICHE (1996–1999, 2008–2011), Pres­i­dent of the ACS, Petro­le­um Chem­istry Divi­sion (2002–2003). She was the Sec­re­tary for NACS (2000–2009). She is on the Edi­to­r­i­al Boards of Catal­y­sis Today, Jour­nal of Mol­e­c­u­lar Catal­y­sis, Catal­y­sis Let­ters, Top­ics in Catal­y­sis, The Roy­al Soci­ety of Chem­istry, Catal­y­sis Book Series, Applied Catal­y­sis B, and Catal­y­sis Reviews. She is one of the Meet­ing Chairs for the 23rd NAM to be held in Louisville in June 2013. She is a fel­low of the AAAS, AICHE, and ACS.

Pro­fes­sor Ozkan is the recip­i­ent of many nation­al and inter­na­tion­al recog­ni­tions among which are the ACS Ener­gy and Fuels Dis­tin­guished Researcher Award (2012), John van Geuns Lec­ture­ship Award at the Van’t Hoff Insti­tute at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ams­ter­dam (2010), Iowa State Uni­ver­si­ty, Pro­fes­sion­al Achieve­ment Cita­tion in Engi­neer­ing (2010), AICHE Men­tor­ship Excel­lence Award (2009), Ful­bright Senior Schol­ar Award (2007), the Soci­ety of Women Engi­neers Achieve­ment Award (2002), Pitts­burgh-Cleve­land Catal­y­sis Soci­ety Out­stand­ing Research Award (1998), French C.N.R.S. Fel­low­ship (1994–95), and Keck Foun­da­tion Excel­lence in Engi­neer­ing Edu­ca­tion Award (1994).
If elect­ed, Dr. Ozkan will focus her efforts on increas­ing the involve­ment of young researchers and grad­u­ate stu­dents in North Amer­i­can Catal­y­sis Soci­ety and bring­ing oth­er relat­ed com­mu­ni­ties such as those of bio­catal­y­sis and elec­tro­catal­y­sis into the NACS fold.
 

Michael A. Reynolds
Senior Research Chemist
Projects and Tech­nol­o­gy
Shell
 
Michael Reynolds con­ducts research in catal­y­sis devel­op­ment for oil con­ver­sion and hydro-pro­cess­ing. He has worked on heavy oil con­ver­sion, cat­a­lyst syn­the­sis, and pilot plant design. Mike is a grad­u­ate of Michi­gan State Uni­ver­si­ty (B.S.) and Iowa State Uni­ver­si­ty (Ph.D.). Pri­or to join­ing Shell he was a post-doc­tor­al asso­ciate at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Illi­nois – Cham­paign. Mike is an active mem­ber of the catal­y­sis com­mu­ni­ty. He has held region­al office in the South­west Catal­y­sis Soci­ety (SWCS) as a Direc­tor (2003–2009), Chair (2011), and Past-Chair (2012). His oth­er activ­i­ties have includ­ed: Poster ses­sion co-Chair for the 20th NAM in Hous­ton, TX; Orga­niz­er and Chair for the 2011 SWCS meet­ing hon­or­ing Jack Lunsford; Edi­to­r­i­al Review Board for ACS Ener­gy & Fuels; Past Area II Rep­re­sen­ta­tive for the ACS Petro­le­um divi­sion; Cur­rent Area II Rep­re­sen­ta­tive for ACS Ener­gy and Fuels divi­sion (exec­u­tive mem­ber). In addi­tion, Mike has co-authored 8 pub­li­ca­tions and over 20 patents in catal­y­sis or relat­ed areas of research. He has also orga­nized, chaired and pre­sent­ed in sev­er­al sym­posia at SWCS and ACS meet­ings over the past sev­er­al years.

Why I would like to cam­paign for Direc­tor-at-Large.
Over the past sev­er­al decades the NACS has done a great deal in its cam­paign to fur­ther the glob­al devel­op­ment and out­reach in catal­y­sis for the indus­tri­al and aca­d­e­m­ic com­mu­ni­ties. I would like to uti­lize the Direc­tor-at-Large posi­tion to devel­op pro­grams aimed at men­tor­ing stu­dents and fur­ther­ing their devel­op­ment as future sci­en­tists and lead­ers. Stu­dents rarely are exposed to the indus­tri­al side of chem­istry and engi­neer­ing and they would ben­e­fit from pro­grams that bridge that gap. One exam­ple would be to work with the Board of Direc­tors to increase edu­ca­tion­al oppor­tu­ni­ties that pro­vide under­grad­u­ate and grad­u­ate stu­dents with a stipend or award to work in the chem­i­cal or petro­chem­i­cal indus­tries. This could be estab­lished through sum­mer intern­ships and fel­low­ships. A sim­i­lar project could be cre­at­ed for high school stu­dents inter­est­ed in the sci­ence and engi­neer­ing fields. These are some of the goals that I would like to accom­plish as an NACS Direc­tor-at-Large.
 

Fabio H. Ribeiro
Pro­fes­sor of Chem­i­cal Engi­neer­ing
Pur­due Uni­ver­si­ty
 
Fabio Ribeiro is a mem­ber of the Michi­gan Catal­y­sis Soci­ety and the Catal­y­sis Club of Chica­go. He served as Pres­i­dent of the New Eng­land Catal­y­sis Soci­ety (NECS) 1997 – 1999 and was the host of the semi­an­nu­al meet­ings of the NECS in Worces­ter, Mass­a­chu­setts, from 1996 to 2002. He served as Chair for AIChE’s Catal­y­sis and Reac­tion Engi­neer­ing Divi­sion (2010) He was co-Chair of the Kokes Award Com­mit­tee for the 22nd North Amer­i­can Meet­ing of the Catal­y­sis Soci­ety. He orga­nized 15 sym­posia for NACS, ACS and AIChE. He is Edi­tor for Jour­nal of Catal­y­sis.

For the past 24 years I have worked in catal­y­sis in indus­try and most­ly in acad­e­mia. My research inter­ests are in the kinet­ics of het­ero­ge­neous cat­alyt­ic reac­tions and cat­a­lyst char­ac­ter­i­za­tion under reac­tion con­di­tions. From past ser­vice to NACS, ACS and AIChE, I am famil­iar with our catal­y­sis com­mu­ni­ty. Our field has recent­ly enjoyed a resur­gence in inter­est from the real­iza­tion that it will be a major enabler in the trans­for­ma­tion of the vast reserves of nat­ur­al gas to chem­i­cals and fuels. I believe we can grow our mem­ber­ship and attract the best young peo­ple to work in catal­y­sis. If elect­ed, I will help NACS to con­tin­ue to pro­mote our field.