Congratulations to our 2024 CISTAR Biannual Meeting Poster and Poster Pitch Winners!

At each biannual meeting, CISTAR Fellows take part in the Poster Pitch competition, where they have 90 seconds to present their research to industry ...

CISTAR Professors Receive National and Division AIChE Awards

CISTAR Director Professor Fabio Ribeiro and Professor Rakesh Agrawal have been honored with prestigious American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) ...

Fabio Ribeiro, W. Nicholas and Elizabeth H. Delgass Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, to Serve as Ambassador in Chemical Sciences in France

Fabio Ribeiro, W. Nicholas and Elizabeth H. Delgass Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, has been selected to serve as an Ambassador in Chemical ...

Dr. Joan Brennecke and Dr. Benny D. Freeman Awarded the 2025 Hill Prize in Engineering

CISTAR professors at The University of Texas at Austin received Lyda Hill Philanthropies 2025 Hill Prize in Engineering. This award recognizes groundbreaking, ...

Professor Can Li Receives NSF CAREER Award to develop optimization-inspired neural networks

Professor Can Li, Co-Director of the Purdue Center for Operations and Optimization in Process Systems (COOPS) and Assistant Professor in the Davidson School of ...

David Bernal Invited to Second Connections to Sustain Science in Latin America Symposium

David Bernal, assistant professor of chemical engineering and co-director of COOPS, has been invited to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and ...

CISTAR PhD Student Luke Pretzie Awarded Prestigious DOE SCGSR Fellowship to Conduct Research at Argonne National Laboratory

Luke Pretzie, a fourth-year PhD student in Professor Jeffrey Greeley’s research group at Purdue University, has been accepted into the highly competitive U.S. ...

Purdue Researchers Pioneer Flexible ‘Electric Reaction-Towers’ to Decarbonize Chemical Manufacturing

A research team at Purdue University has designed a new type of chemical reactor—Electric Reaction-Towers (ERTs)—capable of operating efficiently on ...

CISTAR Congrats: Linsey Seitz

CISTAR Congrats Linsey Seitz, Northwestern University and CISTAR team member on her prestigious NSF Early Career Award!