A. Professional Preparation
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, 1984, University of Michigan, "Bimetallic Ru-Au Catalysts: Characterization and Reactivity."
M.S., Chemical Engineering, 1980, University of Cincinnati, "Electrical Conductivity of Foams."
B.S., Chemical Engineering, 1975, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India.

Professional Society membership, Offices:
Editorial Board of Applied Catalysis, 2001-2003
North American Catalysis Society, Program co-chair, 1995; representative to the International Congress of Catalysis 2000, Western States Catalysis Society, Past President, currently representative to the Board of the North America Catalysis Society. Microscopy Society of America, session chair 1986
International Congress of Electron Microscopy, Cancun 1998, session chair
American Chemical Society, Div. of Petroleum Chemistry, representative Area I representative 1997-99, 99-01 Amer. Inst. Of Chemical Engrs. Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division, Board of Directors 94-97; session chair 1994, 1996, 1997
American Vacuum Society, New Mexico Chapter, Chapter Chair

Honors and Awards:
University of New Mexico
Senior Research Excellence Award, 1998 College of Engineering
Junior Research Excellence Award, 1989, College of Engineering
Outstanding Teacher Award, 1988, Chemical & Nuclear Engr. Graduate students
Presidential Lectureship, 1986-88, Univ. of New Mexico
University of Michigan
Outstanding graduate student, 1982, Department of Chemical Engineering

B. Appointments
Academic:
1984 - present, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. 87131
Present Position: Professor of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering, Interim Assoc. Chair
1994 - present, Director, Center for Microengineered Materials (CMEM)
1999 - present, Executive Director UNM/Rutgers Ceramic and Composite Materials Center (CCMC)
Industrial:
1976 - 78, Hindustan Organic Chemicals, Rasayani, India, Scientific Officer.
1975 - 76, Hindustan Lever Ltd., Research Center, Bombay, India, Research Assistant.
Sabbaticals and Fellowships
Haldor Topsoe, Lyngby, Denmark, 1999, to apply advanced TEM techniques to the study of industrial heterogeneous catalysts
High Temperature Materials Lab Fellowship, 1994, Oak Ridge National Lab, to work on electron holography using the Hitachi HF 2000 FEG-TEM.
BP Research Center, Sunbury on Thames, UK, 1991 to work on in-situ and controlled atmosphere EM of catalysts

C. Publications and Presentations:
Over 150 publications, 150 presentations, 70 invited talks.

D. Synergistic Activities
· A central theme in my research program has been the development of techniques for the study of heterogeneous catalysts. A novel form of model catalyst was developed in our laboratory. The catalyst consists of nonporous particles of simple geometric shape. High Resolution TEM images of metal particles in these model catalysts are already in several books and handbooks. The work has contributed immensely to the study of restructuring phenomena in heterogeneous catalysts.
· The novel analytical techniques developed in our laboratory have led to significant collaborations and funded programs with industry over the past several years. Companies that have benefited from the UNM program include Dow Chemical, Exxon, ASEC (Allied Signal Environmental catalysts) and SASOL.
· As director of a NSF/Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site Program, I have organized a summer program for students from other universities to spend 10 weeks on campus working with researchers at our center.
· During summer 1999 and 2000, we brought 3 high school teachers each year into our summer program via the RET (Research Experiences for Teachers) program funded by NSF. We will continue this program in 2001.
· An important component of my graduate courses is to perform journal critiques where students select current research papers for study. The students are taught how to perform a critical analysis of recent literature, to relate it to the material in the textbook, and to write reviews of these papers similar to those written by referees during the peer review process.

E. Collaborators and Other Affiliations

1. Collaborators
Allen Sault, Nancy Jackson and Tim Gardner (Sandia), Larry Allard and Edgar Voelkle (Oak Ridge) Peter Crozier (ASU), Lisa Pffefferle (Yale), Dragomir Bukur (Texas A&M), Calvin Bartholomoew (BYU), Neil Coville (U. Witwatersrand, South Africa), Chuck Peden (PNNL), Jonathan Phillips, Tim Ward and Jeff Brinker (UNM), Poul Hansen (Haldor Topsoe), Robert Schloegl (Berlin).

2. Graduate Advisors
Johannes Schwank, University of Michigan, Ph. D.
Robert Lemlich, University of Cincinnati, M. S.

3. Thesis Advisor and Post-doctoral Scholar Sponsor
Graduate Students Advised: 13 Ph. D, 15 M. S. Research group 4 Ph. D., 2 M.S., 2 undergraduate students
Students graduated in the past 5 years:
Dinesh Kalakkad, Ph. D.1996
John Reardon, M. S.1996
Tom Madden, M. S. 1996
Jim Kennedy, Ph. D.1997
Min Huang, Ph. D.1998
Aree Hanprasopwattana, Ph. D.1998
Lee Perry, Ph. D. 1998
Jaime Bravo, MS1998
Marcos Barela, MS1998
Lincoln Busselle, MS1998
Travis Nelson, MS 1999
Yaming Jin, Ph.D. 1999
Linda Mansker, Ph.D. 1999
Kelvin Lester, M. S. 2000
Hien Pham, Ph. D. 2001

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