Lifetime Learning
Saturday, September 12, 200910:00 a.m. at Alumni Hall
The finite availability of fossil fuels has prompted a hunt for alternative resources to power us into the future. Robert Davis, Earnest Jackson Oglesby Professor and Chair of Chemical Engineering, will discuss some of the current ideas and challenges related to the use of renewable biomass as a replacement for oil, coal and natural gas, and attempt to shed light on how we can transition from the "fossil" era. Bio
Robert Davis obtained his Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University in 1989. He subsequently worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Chemistry Department at the University of Namur in Belgium. He joined the faculty in Chemical Engineering at the University of Virginia in 1990 as an assistant professor, was promoted to associate professor in 1996, to full professor in 2002, and to Earnest Jackson Oglesby Professor in 2009. He has served as department chair since 2002. Professor Davis and his group conduct research on catalysts and chemical reactions. He has received numerous awards, as well as co-authored about 100 publications, 1 patent and 1 textbook, entitled "Fundamentals of Chemical Reaction Engineering." He has delivered more than 100 invited lectures at conferences, academic departments and industrial research groups, and has co-authored more than 100 additional presentations at technical meetings. |
