2010 Conference Acknowledgments
Dr. Devinder Mahajan
Sustainable Energy Technologies Department
Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University
Professor Mahajan holds a joint appointment between Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and serves as the Site Director, NSF Center for BioEnergy Research & Development (CBERD). His research interests focus on Energy issues that includes a portfolio of projects on Biogas, Methane hydrates, and natural gas conversion into liquid fuels using single-site or slurried (nano heterogeneous or colloidal phase) based catalysts. He has organized symposia and international workshops on issues such as Clean Fuels, Methane Hydrates, and Biomass. He serves on the Editorial Board of: Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy (JRSE), International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology and The Open Petroleum Journal. He is the author of 80 publications including book chapters, 9 patents, and presented over 176 invited lectures on clean energy topics, nationally and internationally. He is member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AICHE), the American Chemical Society (ACS), and the New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS). His recent awards include: Member, Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (RANS)-US Section (2006), Recipient, RANS Crown and Eagle Medal of Honor (for service in the field of “Petroleum Eng.” (2006), Outstanding Mentor Award from the U.S. Department of Energy (2007 and 2009), University Visiting Professor, Government of Italy Fellowship, Universitá di Roma “La Sapienza”, Roma, Italy (2008), Delegation to Universities in Beijing and Shanghai to promote the low-carbon society, China (2009), Visiting Researcher, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Hayama, Japan (2009) and Fulbright Specialist Scholar at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand (2010).