Dr. Christine Lambert Receives the 2027 Eugene J. Houdry Award in Applied Catalysis

The North Amer­i­can Catal­y­sis Soci­ety is pleased to announce that Dr. Chris­tine Lam­bert of Ford Motor Com­pa­ny has been select­ed as the recip­i­ent of the 2027 Eugene J. Houdry Award in Applied Catal­y­sis, rec­og­niz­ing her pio­neer­ing con­tri­bu­tions to auto­mo­tive emis­sions-con­trol catalysis.

Dr. Lam­bert played a cen­tral role in advanc­ing copper/zeolite cat­a­lysts for the selec­tive cat­alyt­ic reduc­tion (SCR) of nitro­gen oxides (NOx) in diesel exhaust, help­ing bring the tech­nol­o­gy from ear­ly demon­stra­tions to com­mer­cial imple­men­ta­tion. Her work estab­lished these cat­a­lysts as a durable and prac­ti­cal solu­tion for meet­ing increas­ing­ly strin­gent emis­sions standards.

Through sus­tained tech­ni­cal lead­er­ship at Ford, Dr. Lam­bert trans­lat­ed cat­alyt­ic sci­ence into a broad port­fo­lio of durable, cost-effec­tive, pro­duc­tion-ready emis­sions-con­trol sys­tems. Her achieve­ments demon­strate the last­ing indus­tri­al impact of con­nect­ing fun­da­men­tal advances in catal­y­sis with the chal­lenges of auto­mo­tive applications.

Beyond her tech­ni­cal accom­plish­ments, Dr. Lambert’s dis­tin­guished ser­vice to the catal­y­sis com­mu­ni­ty has strength­ened its pro­fes­sion­al soci­ety and advanced the field.

Please join us in con­grat­u­lat­ing Dr. Lam­bert on this well-deserved recognition!