Dr. Semih Eser

Biography

Semih Eser is a professor in Energy Geo-Environmental Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. He earned a B.S. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey and a Ph.D. in Fuel Science from Pennsylvania State University. Eser had a research associate position in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Auburn University from 1987 to 1988 and returned to Penn State in 1988, being appointed as an assistant professor in 1989. He served as the associate head of the Department of Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering from 2001 to 2006 and as acting head in 2004. Eser has been involved in various professional activities, including serving as Program Chair and Councilor for the American Chemical Society's Fuel Chemistry Division. In 2014, he was inducted as an ACS Fellow and the same year received a Fulbright Scholarship to teach at Izmir Technology Institute in Turkey. His research interests include the reactivity and characterization of cokes and carbons, mechanisms of coke deposition, and the molecular analysis of petroleum feedstocks. He utilizes tools such as polarized-light microscopy, SEM, TEM, X-ray diffraction, and other spectroscopic analyses to understand the formation pathways of carbon materials. Eser's contribution to education and research has been recognized with multiple awards, including the Distinguished Service Award from the American Chemical Society in 2022 and several teaching and service awards throughout his career.

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