Chemical Engineering Seminars

Spring 2026 Seminar Schedule
Date Speaker Title

March 5

Barrer Lecturer—Christopher Jones

CO2 as a Pollutant & Feedstock: Musings on Direct Air Capture of CO2 & Tandem CO2 Capture & Conversion 

March 19

Phillip Christopher

Catalyst Deactivations: Mechanisms, Stability by Design, and Pathways to Machine-Learned Models 

March 26

Victor Zavala Tejeda

From Molecules to Supply Chains: Transforming Data to Decision using Geometry, Optimization, and Machine Learning

April 2

Mark Dadmun

Correlating Structure to Performance in Soft Materials with Neutron Scattering

April 9

Todd Przybycien

Sustainable Production of Therapeutic Monoclonal Antibodies

April 16

James Sheehan

Glycerol-Derived Solvent Platforms for Lignin-First Biorefining toward Functional Aromatic Streams

April 23

Miguel Modestino

TBD

April 30

Michael Timko

Achieving and Sustaining Liftoff: The Pathway for Commercialization of Hydrothermal Liquefaction n the Circular Economy

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Waltemyer Department of Chemical Engineering

121 Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Building

The Pennsylvania State University

University Park, PA 16802

Phone: 814-865-2574