Jeffrey Miller has won the 2009 CSNY Award for Excellence in Catalysis

Jef­frey Miller has won the 2009 Award for Excel­lence in Catal­y­sis pre­sent­ed by the Catal­y­sis Soci­ety of Met­ro­pol­i­tan New York.

Miller is being rec­og­nized for his strong con­tri­bu­tions to the field of catal­y­sis. In par­tic­u­lar, his work on impor­tant petro­chem­i­cal process­es con­tributed to the fun­da­men­tal under­stand­ing of met­al cat­a­lysts and enabled the upgrad­ing and con­ver­sion of for­mer waste streams to valu­able chem­i­cals. In his more recent work he pro­mot­ed the use of X-ray absorp­tion spec­tro­scopies to under­stand the cor­re­la­tion of prepa­ra­tion to struc­ture and func­tion of het­ero­ge­neous cat­a­lysts. He hold 48 patents and authored more than 100 peer reviewed pub­li­ca­tion in the field of catal­y­sis.

Miller grad­u­at­ed with a Ph.D. in Inor­gan­ic Chem­istry from Ore­gon State Uni­ver­si­ty in 1980. He joined Amo­co Oil Com­pa­ny (now BP Chem­i­cals) in 1980 where he pro­gressed through var­i­ous lead­er­ship posi­tions in the research orga­ni­za­tion. In June 2008, he joined Argonne Nation­al Lab­o­ra­to­ry where cur­rent­ly holds the posi­tion of Group Leader of the Het­ero­ge­neous Catal­y­sis pro­gram.

The Excel­lence in Catal­y­sis Award lec­ture will take place on May 20th where Miller will also receive a plaque and cash award. For more details, vis­it www​.nyc​sweb​.org.