{"id":3597,"date":"2020-11-07T18:34:56","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T00:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grabow.chee.uh.edu\/?page_id=3597"},"modified":"2024-12-18T09:10:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T15:10:36","slug":"3597-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/grabow.chee.uh.edu\/?page_id=3597","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"C:UsersgrabowAppDataLocalMicrosoftWindowsINetCacheContent.WordGrabow<\/span><\/span>Lars Grabow<\/span><\/span> joined the <\/span><\/span>University of Houston<\/span><\/span> (UH)<\/span><\/span> in 2011 as tenure-track Assistant Professor and<\/span><\/span> is<\/span><\/span> now<\/span><\/span> the <\/span><\/span>Dan Luss Professor in the<\/span><\/span> William A. Brookshire<\/span><\/span> Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering<\/span><\/span> and <\/span><\/span>holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Chemistry<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span> He is also a principal investigator in the Texas Center for Superconductivity.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span>He graduated <\/span><\/span>with a Dipl.-Ing. degree <\/span><\/span>from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, <\/span><\/span>in 2003 <\/span><\/span>based on his thesis work under Prof. Gerhart Eigenberger. <\/span><\/span>He received his PhD in Chemical Engineering<\/span><\/span> under the tutelage of the 2009 Paul H. Emmett Awardee Manos Marvrikakis<\/span><\/span> from the University of Wisconsin in 2008<\/span><\/span>, followed by postdoctoral appointments <\/span><\/span>at the Technical University of Denmark and Stanford University<\/span><\/span> with Jens N\u00f8rskov<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span> In 2019, Dr. Grabow spent a Sabbatical year at the University of Ghent<\/span><\/span>, Belgium,<\/span><\/span> with Profs. Guy Marin and Mark Saeys<\/span>, followed by a visit<\/span><\/span> with the group of Prof. Felix Studt at<\/span><\/span> the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology<\/span><\/span>, Germany<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Dr. Grabow\u2019s<\/span><\/span> expertise is the application of <\/span><\/span>density functional theory<\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/span> kinetic modeling<\/span><\/span>, data science and transient kinetic characterization<\/span><\/span> to<\/span><\/span> provide molecular scale insight into<\/span><\/span> fundamental<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span>questions<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span>related to<\/span><\/span> reaction mechanisms and the nature of active sites<\/span><\/span> in heterogeneous catalysis, surface science and electrochemical <\/span><\/span>systems<\/span><\/span>. <\/span><\/span>His papers have been cited more than <\/span><\/span>3<\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/span>5<\/span><\/span>00 times<\/span><\/span> (Web of Science<\/span><\/span>, <\/span><\/span>h<\/span><\/span>-index = 31<\/span><\/span>)<\/span><\/span> with annual citation rates quickly rising from <\/span><\/span>ca. 200<\/span><\/span> ci<\/span><\/span>tations\/year in 2014 to ca. 6<\/span><\/span>00 citations\/year in 2019. <\/span><\/span>He<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span>was elected into<\/span> the 2018 Class of Influential Researchers by <\/span><\/span>Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (IE&C) Research<\/span><\/span> and h<\/span><\/span>is most influential work has been on the identification of reaction mechanisms for (i<\/span>) methanol synthesis, (ii) water-gas shift, and the (iii) CO oxidation reaction. For instance, his 2014 <\/span><\/span>Science<\/span><\/span> paper describing the critical role of water at the gold-titania interface for CO oxidation has amassed 3<\/span><\/span>00<\/span><\/span> citations<\/span><\/span> and was recognized with the Best Fundamental Paper Award from the AIChE South Texas Section<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span> In his independent career, he has given over 60 invited lectures at university seminars, industry and international conferences.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Dr.<\/span><\/span> Grabow won the prestigious U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career Award (2014)<\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/span> the NSF CAREER Award (2015),<\/span><\/span> and<\/span><\/span> the Excellence in Research Award at the assistant professor level from the University of Houston (2017). <\/span><\/span>He serves the catalysis and surface science communities<\/span><\/span> in leadership positions, such as Director<\/span><\/span> (2014-2016)<\/span><\/span>, Secretary<\/span><\/span> (2017)<\/span><\/span> and <\/span><\/span>(Vice-)<\/span><\/span>Chair<\/span><\/span> (since 2018)<\/span><\/span> of the S<\/span><\/span>outhwest Catalysis Society (<\/span><\/span>member of the North American Catalysis Society<\/span><\/span>)<\/span><\/span>, or <\/span><\/span>(Vice-)<\/span><\/span>Chair<\/span><\/span> (2016-2020)<\/span><\/span> and Social Media Director<\/span><\/span> (since 2019)<\/span><\/span> for the Catalysis and Reaction Engineering<\/span><\/span> (CRE)<\/span><\/span> division of AIChE. He<\/span><\/span> is a thoughtful reviewer and<\/span><\/span> has guest edited the special issue <\/span><\/span>in <\/span><\/span>Topics in Catalysis<\/span><\/span> for<\/span><\/span> the 2019 Somorjai Award and a<\/span><\/span>s of November 2020<\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/span> he will serve as Editor for <\/span><\/span>Surface Science<\/span><\/span>, where he previously served<\/span><\/span> on the Editorial Advisory Board<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span>He is a member of the International Advisory Board of ChemCatChem<\/em><\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span>the Editorial Advisory Board of <\/span><\/span>Applied Catalysis B<\/span><\/span>, and a past member of the <\/span><\/span>Early Career Advisory Board of <\/span><\/span>ACS Catalysis<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lars Grabow joined the University of Houston (UH) in 2011 as tenure-track Assistant Professor and is now the Dan Luss Professor in the William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Chemistry. He is also a principal investigator in the Texas Center for Superconductivity. He graduated with a Dipl.-Ing. degree from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, in 2003 based on his thesis work […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3597","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grabow.chee.uh.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grabow.chee.uh.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grabow.chee.uh.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grabow.chee.uh.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grabow.chee.uh.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3597"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/grabow.chee.uh.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4805,"href":"https:\/\/grabow.chee.uh.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3597\/revisions\/4805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grabow.chee.uh.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}