MOC

Marc-Olivier Coppens

Ramsay Memorial Professor in Chemical Engineering and Head of Department

Research Interests

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

Education

• Postdoctoral researcher, UC Berkeley, 1997-1998
• Visiting researcher, Yale, 1996
• PhD in Chemical Engineering, University of Ghent, Belgium, 1996
• MSc and BS in Chemical Engineering, University of Ghent, Belgium, 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)