THEME: "Contemporary Advances and Innovations in Catalysis and Chemical Engineering Research"
Virginia Tech, United States
Title: TBA
Joseph S. Merola is a Professor of Chemistry at Virginia Tech and a graduate of Carnegie-Mellon University (B.S. Chemistry, 1974). He received his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1978 from M.I.T under the direction of Professor Dietmar Seyferth. In 1978, he joined the Corporate Research Laboratories of Exxon Research and Engineering Co in New Jersey. In 1987, he joined Virginia Tech where he has been ever since, although he has held many different roles over his time there. Professor Merola is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has published over 120 papers in the organometallic chemistry and catalysis field.