I am a full professor in the Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering at the University of Kentucky. In 2000, I received a Ph.D. degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Central Florida. That same year, I joined the Chemical & Environmental Engineering Department at The University of Toledo. In 2011, I received the AIChE Kunesh Award. In August 2015, I became a full professor at the University of Kentucky. My TEDx talk is at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wbHD77kMWE