Stephanie Kwon

Biography

Stephanie Kwon is an assistant professor in the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department at the Colorado School of Mines. Her research focuses on heterogeneous catalysis and sustainability, with an emphasis on elucidating surface reaction mechanisms at the molecular level. She combines kinetic studies with in-situ spectroscopy, microkinetic modeling, and density functional theory to provide fundamental insights that guide the design of catalytic systems with enhanced energy and atomic efficiency. Before joining Mines, she earned her Ph.D. from Northwestern University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley.

Her research program has been recognized with several honors, including the NSF CAREER Award, the Hanwha Non-Tenured Faculty Award, the DOE Small Innovative Projects in Solar (SIPS) Award, and an invitation to the “Pioneers of Catalysis and Reaction Engineering” symposium organized by the AIChE Catalysis and Reaction Engineering (CRE) Division. She currently serves as Programming Chair for the AIChE CRE Division (2026–2027) and as a Member-at-Large for the ACS Catalysis (CATL) Division.

RSC affiliations

• Early Career Board, EES Catalysis