Dr. Michael Tsapatsis

Biography

Michael Tsapatsis joined Johns Hopkins University as the 36th Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in 2018. He earned his Engineering Diploma in 1988 from the University of Patras, Greece, followed by a Master’s degree in 1991 and a Ph.D. in 1994 from the California Institute of Technology, where he worked under G.R. Gavalas. He has held postdoctoral fellowships with M.E. Davis at Caltech and served as a faculty member in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota from 2003 to 2018, where he held the Amundson Chair and McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair. Before that, he was a faculty member in the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 1994 to 2003. His teaching interests include reaction engineering, catalysis, separations, transport phenomena, and process product design with an emphasis on energy efficiency and process intensification. Tsapatsis's research combines reaction engineering principles with materials science to develop cleaner, more energy-efficient industrial production processes. His group focuses on designing and synthesizing materials for low-cost and efficient chemical production, including the development of new pathways from renewable sources. Tsapatsis has received several prestigious awards, including the Alpha Chi Sigma Award in Chemical Engineering Research and the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

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