Tsilomelekis Research Group
Material Synthesis | Heterogeneous Catalysis | Operando Molecular Spectroscopy
Group Members

George Tsilomelekis, PhD
Assistant Professor
Diploma in Chemical Engineering, University of Patras, Greece, 2006
M.Sc., Chemical Engineering, University of Patras, Greece, 2011
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Patras, Greece, 2011
Postdoctoral Research: Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation, University of Delaware, USA, 2012-2015

Thu D. Nguyen
Graduate Student (PhD)
We are interested in investigating the competitive pathways occurring in the CO2 assisted Ethane Oxidative Dehydrogenation reaction. At the core of our approach is the use of in-situ and operando vibrational spectroscopies to unravel molecular structural changes under real reaction conditions.

Athanasios Kritikos
Graduate Student (PhD)
Our project involves the study of solvent effects is biomass processing by means of advanced spectroscopic techniques. We are particularly interested in studying the conformational change of sugars in the presence of homogeneous as well as heterogeneous catalytic materials.

Adam Zuber
Graduate Student (PhD)
Our focus is on the preparation of sulfated mixed metal oxides with controlled surface dispersed active species suitable for alkylation reactions. We aim to investigate the molecular structure as well as the catalytic properties of those materials by means of Operando Raman/FTIR spectroscopies.

Hedun Wang
Graduate Student (PhD)
Our research focuses on developing novel catalysts for the Oxidative Dehydrogenation of alkanes using CO2 as mild oxidant. It is of our intent to investigate the molecular structure as well as the catalytic properties of those materials by means of Operando Raman spectroscopy.