Speaker Profile
Name: Geoffrey Prentice
Title: Program Director
National Science Foundation
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Education
University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. 1981, Chemical Engineering.
Ohio State University BSChE and MSChE 1969.
Contact Details
Organization
Name: National
Science
Foundation
Address: 4201
Wilson Blvd., Rm.
525, Arlington, VA
22230
Phone: 703-2928371
Fax: 703-292-9054
Email:
[email protected]
Website:
http://www.nsf.gov
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Professional Positions
National Science Foundation, CTS Division:
Program Director, Separation and Purification Processes, 2002 –
present.
Program Director, Kinetics, Catalysis, and Molecular Processes, 1999
– 2002.
Program Director, Process and Reaction Engineering, 1998 – 1999.
NSF Initiatives: CAREER Coordinating Committee (2001 - 2004);
IGERT Coordinating Committee (2002 - 2004); NSE/NIRT
Coordinator (2000 - present)
Faculty appointments:
Professor and Chair, University of Detroit , 1993 – 1999.
Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University, 1988 - 1993.
Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University; 1981 - 1987.
Associate Director, Center of Excellence in Environmental
Engineering and Science (UDM), 1993 – 1998.
Director, Corrosion and Electrochemistry Research Laboratory (JHU),
1989 - 1992.
Industrial:
Chief Chemist, Goodyear Zaire, Kinshasa, Republique du Zaire,
1973 - 1975.
Staff Engineer, Goodyear Sweden, Norrköping, Sweden, 1971 - 1973.
Development Staff, Goodyear International Corporation, Akron,
1969 - 1971.
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Research field and interests
Electrochemical engineering including projects related to fuel cells
and electroörganic synthesis.
Separation processes, membrane materials, fuel-cell membranes,
bioseparations.
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Professional Activities
JSPS Senior Invitational Fellowship, 2001.
Embassy Science Fellow, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2003.