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Principal Investigator

Jorge Gascon

Professor and Director KCC​​​​​​​​​

Research Interests: Catalysis, Nanomaterials, Gas/Water Purification, Heterogeneous Catalysis, C1 Chemistry, Multifunctional Solids, Reactor Engineering, Separation Processes

Research Scientists

Anastasiya Bavykina, Ph.D.

Research Scientist​

Research Interests: Materials Chemistry, Porous Polymers, Heterogeneous Catalysis

Enrique Ramos Fernandez, Ph.D.

Senior Research Scientist

Jean Marcel Ribeiro Gallo, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Heterogeneous Catalysis, Materials design, Surface characterization, Sustainability

Jose Luis Santos, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Heterogeneous Catalysis, Hydrogen production, Bio Oil refining, Biomass valorization, Material synthesis and characterization

Luis Garzon Tovar, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Nanoporous Materials, Heterogeneous Catalysis, Crystal Design, Synthesis and Functionalization, Catalysis, Crystal Structure Determination

Postdoctoral Fellows

Aiping Chen, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Heterogeneous Catalysis

Angel Sousa

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Carbon materials, MOFs, photo-thermal catalysis, Solar Fuels

Daria Poloneeva

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Metal-organic Framework, Material Science, Photophysics, Gas Separation

Edgar Stiven Duran Uribe, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Heterogeneous Catalysts, Materials Science, Carbon-based materials, Metal supported catalysts

Il Son Khan, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Catalysis, Metal-organic Framework

Jaime Mazarío, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Heterogeneous Catalysts, Nanomaterials, XPS, Induction Heating, Sustainability

Juan Manuel Colom, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Chemical engineering, combustion, Heterogeneous Catalysis, Kinetic modeling

Leandro Duarte de Almeida, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Photocatalysis, Homogeneous Catalysis, nanocatalysts

Xinhuilan Wang, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Heterogeneous Catalysts, Porous Material, MOFs, Photothermal Catalysis

Xuan Gong, Ph.D

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Heterogenous Catalysis, Porous Materials, CO2 Hydrogenation, MTH

PhD Students

Ahmed Alamer

MS/Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Chemical Process Technology, Carbon Neutrality, Circular Carbon, Plastics Pyrolysis, CO2 Mitigation, Crude to Chemicals, energy & sustainability

Anastasiia Chepeleva

​Ph.D. Student ​

Research Interests: Petroleum pitch chemistry, Catalytic polymerization, Graphitization and carbonization, Carbon materials precursors development, Polarized light microscopy, Material characterization

Claudia Filosa

Ph.D. Student

Dina Alsaadi

Ph.D. Student

Maksim Zakharzhevskii

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: metal-organic frameworks, Crystal structure, Photocatalysis1

Mihailo Mirkovic

Ph.D Student

Research Interests: Heterogeneous Catalysis, Fischer-Tropsch, Kinetic Modelling

Mohammad Awwad

​Ph.D. Student ​

Orkhan Sayidov

MS/Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: CO2 Utilization, Reactor Engineering, Reactor Design, Biofuels, Separation Processes, Heterogeneous Catalysis, Catalyst Design, Bio-process modelling and simulation

Vladislav Liamin

​Ph.D. Student ​

Research Interests: Photothermal Catalysis

Wejdan Anbari

Ph.D. Student

Masters Students

Umme Habeeba

Master Student

Research Interests: Heterogenous Catalysis, CO2 Conversion, Photothermal Catalysis