Michele Sarazen

Biography

Michele L Sarazen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University. Her research group couples synthetic, kinetic, and theoretical investigations of porous crystalline materials as catalysts and adsorbents for sustainable fuel and chemical production with an emphasis on reaction and deactivation mechanisms. She earned her BS in Chemical Engineering, summa cum laude, at the Pennsylvania State University and her PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Before arriving at Princeton, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her recognitions include the NSF CAREER Award, ACS CATL Division Early Career in Catalysis, Robert Augustine Award of the Organic Reactions Catalysis Society, and AIChE 35 under 35. She currently serves as a D&I Task Force member for AIChE in Catalysis and Reaction Engineering, Director of the Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York, Associate Editor for Applied Catalysis B, and past ACS CATL Division Spring Program Chair.

RSC affiliations

• Early Career Board, EES Catalysis