THEME: "Exploring Critical Breakthroughs in Catalysis and Chemical Engineering"
University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
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Dr. Anne M. Gaffney is the Chief
Science Officer of Idaho National Laboratory and Distinguished National Lab
Fellow (2014 – present). She has
thirty-four years of experience working in industry inventing and
commercializing new technologies for major chemical manufacturing companies
including Koch Industries, Lummus Technology, Dow, Dupont and ARCO Chemical
Company. She has authored 155
publications and 256 patents. Dr.
Gaffney is also a distinguished Joint Appointment Fellow at the University of
South Carolina (2018 – present) where she is the Technical Director of the National
Science Foundation Center for Rational Catalyst Synthesis. Some of her recent
awards include: the 2019 American Chemical Society, Energy & Fuels,
Distinguished Researcher Award in Petroleum Chemistry; the 2015 Eugene J.
Houdry Award of the North American Catalysis Society; the Chemical Heritage
Foundation, Women in Science Inductee, 2014; and the American Chemical Society,
Industrial Chemistry Award, 2013. Dr.
Gaffney received her BA in chemistry and mathematics from Mount Holyoke College
and her Ph.D. in physical organic chemistry from University of Delaware.