Description:

Who: E. Charles Skyes, Tufts University, current Ipatieff lecturer 

When: April 18, TIME TBD | Reception, TIME TBD | LOCATION TBD 

Where: Evanston Campus, TBD

Please RSVP here. Event details TBA. Guests are welcome to join a reception after the seminar. 

About the Ipatieff Lectureship

The Vladimir 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 founder of the Ipatieff High Pressure Laboratory at Northwestern University.  

The following scientists have served as Ipatieff Lecturers: 
2025: E. Charles Skyes, Tufts University 
2024: Dame Clare Grey, University of Cambridge 
2018-2019: Robert Schlögl, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion  
2016-2017: Susannah Scott, University of California, Santa Barbara 
2015-2016: Joachim Sauer, Humboldt University, Berlin 
2013-2014: Alex Bell, University of California, Berkley 
2012-2013: Bert Weckhuysen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands 
2010-2011: Charles Campbell, University of Washington 
2007-2008: Hans-Joachim Freund, Fritz-Haber Institut 
2004-2005: Enrique Iglesia, University of California-Berkeley 
2003-2004: Sir John Meurig Thomas, University of Cambridge 
2000-2001: Avelino Corma, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain 
1999-2000: Lanny D. Schmidt, University of Minnesota 
1998-1999: Roel Prins, Laboratory for Technical Chemistry (Zurich, Switzerland) 
1996-1997: Makoto Misono, University of Tokyo 
1995-1996: Gary Haller, Yale University 
1994-1995: George Parshall, DuPont Central Science & Engineering Laboratories (Wilmington, Delaware) 
1993-1994: Rutger van Santen, University of Technology (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) 
1992-1993: D. Wayne Goodman, Texas A & M University 
1991-1992: Werner Haag, Mobil Research & Development Corporation (Princeton, New Jersey) 
1990-1991: Pierre Gallezot, Institut de Recherches sur la Catalyse (Villerbanne, Cedex, France) 
1989-1990: Jack Lunsford, Texas A & M University 
1988-1989: Helmut Knozinger, University of Munich (Munich, Germany) 

The Center for Catalysis and Surface Science (CCSS) monthly meetings host speakers, as well as provide tutorials,  research updates and facilitate team collaboration.  

The mission of the Center for Catalysis and Surface Science (CCSS) is to promote interdisciplinary research fundamental to the discovery, synthesis, and understanding of catalysts and catalytic reactions essential to modern society. As a part of the Paula M. Trienens Institute for Sustainability and Energy, CCSS applies fundamental advances in catalysis science towards applications in alternative fuels, abatement of harmful emissions, resource recovery concepts, new processing routes, and many other strategies towards making chemicals more sustainable.