The Education Committee of the International Adsorption Society aims to provide a range of resources to increase the accessibility of adsorption, and adsorption processes. A webinar series featuring prominent members of the adsorption community has been initiated, and available for all to access via the IAS YouTube channel. Future endeavours will include online poster sessions, an interview/discussion series, and adsorption tutorials. It is currently headed by Prof. Arvind Rajendran, and supported by ECR researchers from the adsorption community.
News and upcoming events
Upcoming webinars:
24th of May: Prof. Ah-Hyung (Alissa) Park of Columbia University in the City of New York.
14th of June: Prof. Susana García of Heriot-Watt University.
Notice of future webinars will be via e-mail to the IAS mailing list, or to all via Twitter. The recordings of prior webinars can also be found on the IAS YouTube channel, and more recently, our Bilibili channel.
Past events:
03/08/2023: Webinar presented by Jacek Jagiello of AGH University of Science and Technology. Recording available on YouTube. Recording available on YouTube and Bilibili.
02/14/2023: Webinar presented by Prof. Kim Jelfs on the computational discovery of porous materials. Recording available on YouTube and Bilibili.
May 2020 – Nov 2022: Prior webinar recordings available on the IAS YouTube channel.
12/09/2022: 3rd Annual IAS Twitter poster conference – see #IASTwitterPoster3 for submissions.
11/29/2021: 2nd Annual IAS Twitter poster conference – see #IASTwitterPoster2 for submissions.
12/11/2020: Inaugural IAS Twitter poster conference – see #IASTwitterPoster for submissions.
About us
Prof. Yongchul G. Chung is an Associate Professor at the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at Pusan National University, Busan Korea. His group research topics related to adsorption-based gas separation and storage using molecular simulation and experiments.
Nicholas Corrente is a third-year PhD student at Rutgers University, United States. His research focuses on modeling of adsorption-induced deformation of flexible nanoporous materials, particularly upon adsorption of binary mixtures.
Dr. David Danaci is a research associate at the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London, where he investigates adsorption-based separations for CO2 capture, and sorption-enhanced reactions. His research is a combination of experimental work (materials synthesis to pilot-scale), process modelling, and techno-economic analysis.
Dr. Junpei Fujiki is a designated lecturer at the Department of Materials Process Engineering at Nagoya University, Japan, where he investigates CO2 capture using solid sorbents. His research focuses on the development of porous materials, fixed-bed experiments (breakthrough and PSA), and process modeling.
Isabel Harriehausen is a Doctoral researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamic of Complex Technical Systems in Magdeburg, Germany. Her research focuses on the coupling of chiral resolution with liquid chromatography and enzymatic racemization of enantiomers for the provision of enantiopure compounds.
Dr. Guoping Hu is a research associate at the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Western Australia. His main research focuses are on the development and upscale production of porous materials, design of novel pressure swing adsorption processes and facilities, and pilot demonstration. The application scenarios include the capture of CH4 from gas mixtures, carbon capture and air separation.
Giuseppe Pezzella is a Ph.D. candidate at CCRC in KAUST, Saudi Arabia. His academic research is on carbon capture and storage and he mainly focuses on the design of adsorption processes to capture CO2 from mobile emitting sources such as heavy-duty vehicles or from the air (Direct Air Capture).
Dr. Shuang Wang is a lecturer at the College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Luoyang Normal University. Her main research interest is in the synthesis and structural design of inorganic porous materials in gas separation and wastewater treatment. Her research areas include zeolite-based materials for CO2 capture, VOCs removal, and trapping of metal oxyanions.
Dr. Nicholas Stiles Wilkins is an Adsorption Process Development Engineer (Research and Development team) at Svante in Burnaby, Canada. He studies gas & vapor phase competitive adsorption equilibrium, gas diffusion in nanonporous materials, pressure/temperature swing adsorption process design & optimization, and adsorptive carbon capture.
Dr. Gongkui Xiao is a research fellow at the Department of Chemical Engineering at The University of Western Australia, where he leads the adsorption-based gas separation process development. His research focuses on process modelling and optimisation for real industrial gas separation processes. His research areas include carbon capture from both pre-combustion and post-combustion gases, nitrogen rejection from natural gas, biogas upgrading, and the synthesis of zeolites from various mining wastes.
Alumni
Dr. Juliana Coelho is a postdoc researcher at the Department of Chemical Engineering at Federal University of Ceará (Brazil). She has experience with theoretical and experimental gas adsorption, from fundamental properties (adsorption equilibrium isotherms obtained experimentally and from molecular simulation) up to the processes (fixed bed experiments and simulation).
Valentina Stampi-Bombelli is a second-year PhD student at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. In the effort of finding ways to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, her research focuses on adsorption-based CO2 capture from air (Direct Air Capture – DAC).