Multiscale Reaction Engineering

Team

Principal Investigator

Dion G. Vlachos

Dionisios (Dion) G. Vlachos is the Unidel Dan Rich Chair in Energy Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware, the Director of the University of Delaware Energy Institute (UDEI), of the UD node of the manufacturing institute RAPID, and of the Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation (CCEI), an Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC).

He obtained a five-year diploma in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 1987, his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1990 and 1992 respectively, and spent a postdoctoral year at the Army High Performance Computing Research Center in Minnesota. After that, Dr. Vlachos joined the University of Massachusetts as an assistant professor, was promoted to an associate professor in 1998 and joined the University of Delaware in 2000. He was a visiting fellow at Princeton University (2000), a visiting faculty member at Thomas Jefferson University and Hospital (2007), the George Pierce Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota (2007), the Elizabeth Inez Kelley Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware (2009-2016) and the ExxonMobil Visiting Chair Professor at the National University of Singapore (2018-2021).

Professor Vlachos is the recipient of the 2016 Catalysis Club of Philadelphia Award, the R. H. Wilhelm Award in Chemical Reaction Engineering from AIChE (2011) and is an AAAS Fellow (since 2009). He also received a NSF Career Award and an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award. He is a member of AIChE, ACS, the Combustion Institute, MRS, the North American Catalysis Society (NACS) and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). He has given several named lectures: the Doumas Lecture, Department of Chemical Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2016, the ICI Distinguished Lecturer, DB Robinson Lectureship Series at the University of Alberta, 2014-2015, and the J. D. Lindsay Lecture Series, Chemical Engineering Department, Texas A&M University, Oct. 8, 2014. Dr. Vlachos’ main research thrusts entail circular economy and waste derivatization, multiscale modeling and simulation, distributed (bio)chemical manufacturing, process intensification and novel catalytic reactors, renewable fuels and chemicals, catalyst informatics and in silico materials prediction, and kinetic modeling of biomass, shale gas, nitrogen cycle, and CO2 cycle.

He is the corresponding author of more than 400 refereed publications with over 22,000 citations, and an h factor of 84 (google scholar), and has given over 270 plenary lectures, keynote lectures and other invited talks. Professor Vlachos has served as an executive editor of the Chemical Engineering Science journal and also served or currently serves on the editorial advisory board of ACS Catalysis, Reaction Chemistry & Engineering, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, Applied Catalysis A: General and others.

For full CV and to learn more, visit Professor Vlachos’ faculty profile.

Computational

Azad Yilmaz

Experimental

Postdoctoral Scholars

Deep Patel

Computational

George Yan

Computational

Piaoping Yang

Computational

Sinmyung Yoon

Experimental

Jiahua Zhou

Experimental

Staff

Jeff Everhart

Siemens

Siddhant Meenor Lambor

Software Engineer

Kelly Walker

Technical Communications

Bharat Medasani

PPPL

Weiqing Zheng

Associate Director

Sunitha Sadula

Lab Manager

Alumni

Graduate Students (Alumni)

Yagya Gupta

Ph.D., 2025

DOW Chemical

Jiahua Zhou

Ph.D., 2024

University of Delaware

Piaoping Yang

Ph.D., 2024

University of Delaware

Roel Raike

MChE, 2024

EPFL Ph.D. Program

Kewei Yu

Ph.D., 2024

Eli Lilly & Co.

Brandon Vance

Ph.D., 2024

Honeywell UOP

Xue (Sherry) Zong

Ph.D., 2023

OpenEye Scientific

Tso-Hsuan (Eric) Chen

M.S., 2023

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.

Sophia Kurdziel

Ph.D., 2023

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Montgomery Baker-Fales

Ph.D., 2023

Dow Chemical

Seungyeon (Lina) Lee

Ph.D., 2023

Dow Chemical

Yung Wei (Jessie) Hsiao

Ph.D., 2023

Dow Chemical

Zhaoxing (Joe) Wang

Ph.D., 2023

Regeneron

Sai Praneet Batchu

Ph.D., 2023

Northwestern University

Jon Wilson

Ph.D., 2023

W.L. Gore & Associates

Himaghna Bhattacharjee

Ph.D., 2023

Meta Platforms, Inc.

Jiayi Fu

Ph.D., 2022

Bristol Myers Squibb

Natalia Rodriguez Quiroz

Ph.D., 2022

McKinsey

Gerhard Wittreich

Ph.D., 2022

University of Delaware

Tai-Ying (Chris) Chen

Ph.D., 2022

DuPont

Max Cohen

Ph.D., 2022

24M Technologies, Inc.

Yurong Wu

M.S., 2022

University of Delaware

Pierre Desir

Ph.D., 2021

3M

Elvis Ebikade

Ph.D., 2021

Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

Yifan Wang

Ph.D., 2021

Meta

Hsuan-Lan (Sandy) Wang

M.S., 2020

WuXi Biologics

Jordan Willie

M.S., 2020

Pfizer

Jonathan Lym

Ph.D., 2020

Dow Chemical

Angela Norton

Ph.D., 2020

ONR

Joshua Lansford

Ph.D., 2020

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ziwei (Lily) Cheng

Ph.D., 2019

Los Alamos

Geun Ho Gu

Ph.D., 2018

Korea Institute of Technology (KENTECH)

Matthew Gilkey

Ph.D., 2018

Stoner, Inc.

Stephen Giles

Ph.D., 2018

CFD Research Corporation

Alexander Mironenko

Ph.D., 2018

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Huong Thi Thanh (Hannah) Nguyen

Ph.D., 2018

Continuus Pharmaceuticals

Tyler Josephson

Ph.D., 2017

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Ryan Patet

Ph.D., 2017

Cargill

Marcel Nunez

Ph.D., 2017

Intel Corporation

Garam Lee

M.S., 2016

University of Notre Dame

T. Dallas Swift

Ph.D., 2015

Element

Andrew Black

M.S., 2014

M.S., 1999

Pierre Bui

Ph.D., 1998

GE

Stavros Kalamatianos

M.S., 1995

Knowesis

Postdoctoral Scholars (Alumni)

Salman Khan

IIT – Kanpur

Sean Najmi

Honeywell UOP, Chicago

Qiang Li

University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Yilang Liu

University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Pooja Bhalode

University of Rochester

Sagar Sourav

ITT-Madras

Siddharth Deshpande

University of Rochester

Mehdi Zare

University of South Carolina

Pavel Kots

New York University

Anjana Puliyanda

University of Alberta

Cong Wang

Honeywell

Fabio Cameli

Ghent University

Vibin Vargheese

Braskem America

Sunkyu Kim

University of Delaware

Abhirup Patra

Roivant Sciences

Tianjun Xie

North Carolina A&T University

Abinav Malhotra

Culture Biosciences

Rajasekhar Reddy Busigari

IIT Dhanbad

Boris Sheludko

Amogy

Weiqi Chen

Star Research

Yunzhu Wang

Singapore

Konstantinos Alexopoulos

Penn State University

Shizhong Liu

Citadel

Zhaohui Liu

Sibao Liu

Tianjin University

Sha Li

Isreal Institute of Technology

Lalit Gangurde

Udit Gupta

Siemens

Himanshu Goya

IIT Madras

Hilal Ezgi Toraman

Penn State University

Fanglin Che

Umass Lowell

Talin Avanesian

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Konstantinos Goulas

Oregon State University

Glen Jenness

EDRC

Li Shuai

Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University

Eugenio Souza

Brazil

Ioanna Fampiou

Villanova University

Evangelos Miliordos

Auburn University

Davood Pourkargar

Kansas State University

Jechan Lee

Ajou University, South Korea

Sai Konda

ACS

Jeffrey Christianson

AutoAlert

Ruichang Xiong

Aspen Technology

George Tsilomenlekis

Rutgers University

Liu Yang

Air Liquide

Wei Guo

Beijing Institute of Technology

Shengguang Wang

University of Houston

Despoina Tzoulaki

Grant Thornton Greece

Kyungtae Lee

University of Virginia

Marta Leon Garcia

Ingevity

Nageswara Rao Peela

ITT, Guwahati

Paraskevi (Vivi) Panagiotopoulou

University of Crete

Yifang Zhao

Queens University, Belfast

Jungho Jae

Pusan National University

Neeraj Rai

Mississippi State University

Santiago Builes Toro

EAFIT University, Columbia

Jacob Kruger

NREL

Prasad Vegendla

Argonne National Laboratory

Yulin Huang

DDH Advanced Materials & Systems, Inc.

Michail Stamatakis

UCL, London

Samir Mushrif

University of Alberta

Nassar Abukhdeir

University of Waterloo

Hangyao Wang

Dow Chemical

Kowtilya Bijjula

Intel

Georgios Stefanidis

KU Leuven

Vinay Prasad

University of Alberta

Ayman Karim

Virginia Tech University

Niket Kaisare

IIT Madras

Altaf Karim

COMSATS University Islamabad

Neal Fernandes

Powerhouse Wind Ltd

Tanmay Basak

IIT Madras

David Kragten

Specialty Granules, LLC

Marina Lebedeva

Penn State

Scientific Research Staff (Alumni)

Stavros Caratzoulas

2002-2024

(dec. 2024)

Panogiotis (Panos) Dimitrakellis

2019-2022

Centre for Research and Technology, Hellas

Weihua Deng

2012-2015

Lab Manager, CBD, University of Delaware

Ying Chen

2009-2012

Self-employed

Sashank Kasiraju

2020-2024

NET Power

Basudeb Saha

2015-2020

Assoc. Director of Research, RiKarbon

Giannis Mpourmpakis

2011-2013

Assoc. Prof., University of Pittsburgh

Gerhard Wittreich

2022-2023

Retired

Vladimiros Nikolakis

2011-2015

Assoc. Director of Research, W.L. Gore

Christina Bagia

2011-2013

Magee Women’s Research Inst. & Foundation