Marc-Olivier Coppens

Research Interests

• Nature inspired chemical engineering
• Hierarchically structured functional materials
• Statistical mechanics and multiscale simulations
• Diffusion
• Energy, water, sustainability and process intensification

Education

UC Berkeley

Postdoctoral researcher | 1997-1998

Yale

Visiting researcher | 1996

University of Ghent, Belgium

PhD in Chemical Engineering | 1996

University of Ghent, Belgium

MSc and BS in Chemical Engineering | 1993

Awards

• Corresponding Member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences, Germany (2018)
• PSRI Lectureship Award of the AIChE’s Particle Technology Forum (2017)
• Qiushi Distinguished Chair, Zhejiang University (2017)
• Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, FAIChE (2016) 
• Somer Lectures, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey (2014) 
• Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, FIChemE (2014) 
• EPSRC “Frontier Engineering” Award (5M£) to establish a UCL-based Centre for Nature Inspired Engineering (2013) 
• RSC Catalysis Science and Technology Award Lecturer, ETH Zürich (2012)
• Rensselaer School of Engineering Award for Innovations in Education (2012)
• Visiting Professor at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Oslo (2008)
• PIONIER Award from the Dutch National Science Foundation, NWO (2002) 
• Young Chemist Award from the Dutch National Science Foundation, NWO (2001)

Professional Affiliations

• AIChE (Fellow, Board member CRE, PTF, IC, CTOC), IChemE (Fellow), ACS, BAEF (Fellow, voting Member), AAAS, Saxon Academy of Sciences (Germany)