Iglesia awarded V.N. Ipatieff Lectureship
The Northwestern University Center for Catalysis and Surface Science
is pleased to announce that Dr. Enrique Iglesia, Professor of Chemical
Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley will serve as
the V. N. Ipatieff Lecturer for 2005.
The V. N. Ipatieff Lectureship was established in 1988 to enhance the
educational experience of graduate students and postdoctoral
researchers by sponsoring extended, up to one month, visits to the
Center by internationally distinguished researchers in catalysis. The
lectureship is named after Professor Vladimir N. Ipatieff, the father
of high-pressure heterogeneous catalysis and the founder of the
Ipatieff High Pressure Laboratory at Northwestern University. Previous
V. N. Ipatieff lecturers include Prof. Helmut Knözinger, Prof. Jack
Lunsford, Dr. Pierre Gallezot, Dr. Werner Haag, Prof. D. Wayne Goodman,
Prof. Rutger A. van Santen, Dr. George Parshall, Prof. Gary Haller,
Prof. Makoto Misono, Prof. Roel Prins, Prof. Lanny D. Schmidt, Prof.
Avelino Corma, and Sir John M. Thomas.
Professor Iglesia is Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Catalysis, and
Director of the Berkeley Catalysis Center. Among numerous awards,
he has recently received the 2005 George A. Olah Award in Hydrocarbon
Chemistry of the American Chemical Society and the 2005 Robert Burwell
Award of the Catalysis Society of North America
This award provides the recipient an honorarium of $5,000 as well as a stipend
to cover travel expenses.
