Biography

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Appointments

Ivan Racheff Professor and Chair of Environmental Engineering & Science
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Faculty, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign




Awards

06/2024, Ivan Racheff Professor
06/2024, Vice-Chair of 2024 GRC Tribology
06/2020, Donald Biggar Willett Faculty Scholar
01/2019, Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research
03/2016, Excellence Faculty Scholar, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
01/2016, CAS Associate, Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Teaching excellence: Spring 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2018, Fall 2022, Spring 2023
08/2014, NCSA Fellow, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
09/2007, DFG Early Career Support, Awarded by German Research Foundation (DFG).

Education and Research Appointments

Senior Scientist at ETH Zurich, Materials Science Department, Switzerland, 2009 – 2013.
German Science Foundation Research Fellow, Princeton University, 2007 – 2009.
Postdoctoral researcher in Hamburg University of Technology, 2005-2007.
Ph.D. in Engineering/Material Science (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany), 2004.
B.S. in Mechanical Eng. (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain), 1997.

Services

2024 Vice-Chair of American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry.
2015-present, Member of Executive Committee of the ACS Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry.
2024 Vice-Chair of the Tribology Gordon Research Conference.