Prof. Michele Sarazen

Prof. Michele L. Sarazen is an Assistant Professor at Princeton University in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and an associated faculty with the DOE Princeton Plasma Physic Laboratory. Her research group couples synthetic, kinetic, and theoretical investigations of porous crystalline materials as catalysts and adsorbents for sustainable fuel and chemical production with an emphasis on reaction and deactivation mechanisms. She earned her BS in Chemical Engineering, summa cum laude, at the Pennsylvania State University and her PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley under Enrique Iglesia. Before arriving at Princeton, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology with Christopher Jones. Her recognitions include the NSF CAREER Award, ACS CATL Division Early Career in Catalysis, Robert Augustine Award of the Organic Reactions Catalysis Society, and AIChE 35 under 35. She currently serves as a D&I Task Force member for AIChE in Catalysis and Reaction Engineering, Director of the Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York, Associate Editor for Applied Catalysis B, and past ACS CATL Division Spring Program Chair.