| C. SELECTED PROFESSIONAL AWARDS & HONORED APPOINTMENTS
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| 2025 | Invited Professor, Sapienza University, Rome. Italy |
| 2025 | Invited Professor, University Grenoble Alpes, France |
| 2025 | Keynote Speaker, 15th International Conference on Fundamentals of Adsorption, Porto, Portugal |
| 2025 | Keynote Speaker, 14th International Colloids Conference, San Sebastion, Spain |
| 2024 | Plenary Speaker, Annual AIChE meeting, Oct. San Diego, CA |
| 2024 | Invited Speaker, PBAST-9, Kuching, Malaysia |
| 2024 | Invited Lecturer, CIMTEC 2024, Montecatini Terme, Italy |
| 2023 | Invited Speaker, Symposium on Challenges for Carbon Nanoporous Materials in Nagano, Japan |
| 2023 | Invited Speaker, CECAM Flagship Workshop "Fluids in Porous Materials", Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 2023 | Thomas Young Centre Soiree Lecture. London, UK |
| 2022 | Elected on the board of directors of the International Adsorption Society |
| 2022 | Keynote Speaker, 14th International Conference on the Fundamentals of Adsorption, Broomfield, Colorado |
| 2022 | Keynote Plenary Lecture, 11th International Colloids Conference, Lisbon, Portugal |
| 2021 | Visiting Professor, l’Institut de Recherche de Chimie Paris, PSL, France |
| 2019 | Thomas Young Centre Soiree Lecture, London, UK |
| 2019 | Invited Plenary Lecture, International Conference "Mechanisms and Non-Linear Problems of Nucleation and Growth of Crystals and Thin Films", St. Petersburg, Russia |
| 2019 | Keynote Speaker, 13th International Conference of Fundamentals of Adsorption, Cairns, Australia |
| 2019 | Fellow, International Adsorption Society. |
| 2018 | Distinguished Visiting Professor, Shinshu University, Nagano, Japan |
| 2018 | Japan Science and Technology Agency CREST Award, Japan |
| 2018 | Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor, University College London, UK |
| 2017 | Keynote Speaker, 9th Sino-US Joint Conference of Chemical Engineering, Beijing, China
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| 2017 | Invited Plenary Lecture, 6th Biot Conference on Poromechanics, Paris, France
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| 2017 | Invited Lecturer, VII International Conference on Diffusion Fundamentals, Moscow, Russia
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| 2016 | Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Research, Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ
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| 2016 | Invited Lecturer. 12th International Conference on Fundamentals of Adsorption, Friedrichshafen, Germany
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| 2015 | Honorary Plenary Session Area 2E, AIChE annual meeting, Salt Lake City, UT
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| 2015 | Recognition plaque for seminal contributions AIChE Separation Division
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| 2015 | Invited speaker. International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Honolulu, Hawaii
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| 2015 | Keynote speaker. 8th Sino-US Joint Conference of Chemical Engineering, Shanghai, China
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| 2015 | Mork Family Visiting Scholar. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
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| 2015 | Inviter speaker. The 13th International Ceramics Congress, Montecatini Terme, Italy
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| 2014 | Invited speaker, International Workshop "Friction and Interface Dynamics",
Tel-Aviv, Israel |
| 2014 | Invited speaker, CECAM Workshop "Dissipative Particle Dynamics", Lausanne,
Switzerland |
| 2014 | Editor, Colloid and Interface Science Communications, Elsevier
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| 2013-14 | Visiting Professor, ENSCP - Chimie ParisTech, Paris, France |
| 2013 | Tomas Young Center Soiree Lecture King’s College, London, UK |
| 2013 | Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering, UK |
| 2013 | Rutgers Faculty Ambassador |
| 2012 | Fellow, American Institute of Chemical Engineers |
| 2012 | Visiting Professor, Ecole Normale Superior, Paris, France |
| 2012 | Keynote speaker. Int. Symposium on Zeolites and Microporous Materials, Hiroshima,
Japan |
| 2011 | Plenary speaker, AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN |
| 2011 | Visiting Professor, Nanjing University, China |
| 2010 | Plenary speaker, 10th International Conference on Fundamentals of Adsorption, Hyogo, Japan |
| 2009-11 | Blaise Pascal International Chair, ENS Foundation, Paris, France |
| 2009 | Invited speaker, Fall Meeting of Materials Research Society, Boston, MA |
| 2009 | Invited lecturer, International Conference "Diffusion Fundamentals III&", Athens, Greece |
| 2008 | Merit Award, Rutgers University, USA |
| 2008 | Invited Lecturer. 6th Congress of Int. Soc. Theoretical Chemical Physics,
Vancouver, Canada |
| 2008 | Invited Lecturer. 7th International Symposium on Polyelectrolytes, Coimbra,
Portugal |
| 2007-13 | Elected Member, Board of Directors, International Adsorption Society |
| 2007 | Invited speaker International Conference "Thermodynamics 2007", Rueil-Malmaison, France |
| 2007 | Keynote speaker. International Carbon Conference, Seattle, WA. |
| 2006-14 | Member, IUPAC Task Groups Characterization of Porous Materials, Physisorption of Gases |
| 2006 | Distinguished Visiting Professor, American University, Cairo, Egypt |
| 2006 | Invited lecturer. International Conference "Transport in polymeric membranes", Pula, Italy |
| 2005 | Most Cited Scientist, ISI Essential Science Indicators |
| 2005 | Stanley Katz Annual Memorial Lecture, City College, CCNY, New York |
| 2005 | Plenary speaker. 7th Int. Symp. Characterization of Porous Solids, Aix en Provence, France |
| 2005 | Keynote lecturer. International Symposium on Nanoporous Materials, Niagara Falls, Canada |
| 2004-05 | Visiting Scholar, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ |
| 2004 | Guggenheim Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |
| 2004-05 | Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel U.,Philadelphia, PA |
| 2004 | FUMEC Distinguished Lectureship Award, Mexican Academy of Sciences, Mexico |
| 2004 | Plenary speaker. 8th International Conference on Fundamentals of Adsorption,Sedona, AZ |
| 2003 | Invited lecturer. 3rd Pacific Basin Conference on Adsorption Science and Technology, Korea |
| 2003 | Keynote lecturer. NATO-ASI on "Nanoengineered Nanofibrous Materials", Antalya, Turkey |
| 2003 | Invited speaker. MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA |
| 2002 | Invited Plenary Lecturer. Meeting of Chem. Soc. Japan, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2002 | Keynote speaker. 6th Int. Symposium on Characterization of Porous Solids, Alicante, Spain |
| 2001 | Plenary Lectureship Award, Nanoscale Science Engineering Symposium, AIChE,Reno, NV |
| 2001 | Plenary speaker. 7th Int. Conference on Fundamentals of Adsorption, Nagasaki, Japan |
| 2000 | Johnson & Johnson Focused Giving Program Award |
| 2000 | Plenary speaker, Pacific Basin Conf. "Adsorption Science & Technology", Brisbane, Australia |
| 2000 | Invited speaker. MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA |
| 1994 | Fellow, Mandelbrot Foundation for Fractals, New Haven, CT |
| 1993-94 | Visiting Director of Research, National Center of Scientific Research, Poitiers, France |
| 1992-93 | DFG Visiting Professor, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany |
| 1991-92 | Humboldt Research Fellow, Humboldt Foundation, Bonn |
| D. SYNERGISTIC & EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES |
| Founding Editor. Colloid and Interface Science Communications, Elsevier, 2014-2017 |
| Founder and Chairman of the International Workshops on Characterizations of Porous Materials (CPM), 1997, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2015, 2018, and 2024 |
| Member, IUPAC Task Groups on "Characterization of Porous Materials" and "Physisorption of Gases", 2006- current. |
| Chairman and Co-Chairman of the sessions on Molecular Modeling of Adsorption, Characterization of Nanoporous Materials, Molecular Modeling and Design of Nanostructured Adsorbents, Theory and Simulation of Adsorption at the annual meetings of AIChE, 1999-2025 |
| Member of the Promotion Review Committee, Rutgers University, 2011-2014 |
| Chairman of the PII Review Committee, Rutgers School of Engineering, 2008-2011 |
| Director of the Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Graduate Program, Rutgers, 2007-2010 |
| Co-Director GAANN educational program on "Pharmaceutical Engineering", Rutgers, 2009-2014 |
| Organizer and Director of the Center for Modeling and Characterization of Nanoporous Materials (CMCNM) at TRI/Princeton (1996-2006). CMCNM focuses its multifaceted activities on fundamental research, technology transfer, and professional education in the areas of nanoscale modeling and characterization of porous and particulate materials |
| Director of the TRI/Princeton CTP "Interactions of fluids with porous materials" (2001-2006) co-sponsored by a group of U.S. and European industrial companies. |
| Chairman of the International Workshop "Nanocapillarity: Wetting of Heterogeneous Surfaces and Porous Solids", 2001 |
| Co-Chairman of Diffusion Fundamentals International Conference, USA, 2011 International Workshops Adsorption in Compliant Nanoporous Solids, Paris, France, June 9-11, 2011, and June 6-8, 2013, and the International Conference on Fundamentals of Adsorption, Constanz, Germany, 2016. |
| Guest Editor. Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, Colloids and Surfaces, Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, Adsorption |
| Member of International Advisory Committees.
International Conferences & Symposiums on Computational Modelling and Simulation of Materials (Italy, 2004), Fundamentals of Adsorption
(Japan, 2001; USA, 2004; Italy 2007, Japan, 2010, USA , 2013, Germany, 2016, Australia, 2019, USA, 2022, Portugal, 2025), Adsorption Science and Technology (Australia, 2000,
Korea, 2003, China, 2006, Singapore, 2009), Characterization of Porous Solids
(Spain, 2002; France, 2005, UK 2008, Germany 2011, Spain 2014, France 2017) European
Excellence Project "INPORE", 2008-2011, and others |
| Member of Advisory Board. Adsorption Science and Technology, Particle & Particle Systems Characterization |
| Panel reviewer for NSF, NIH and DOE |
| Member of AIChE, ACS, MRC, IAS, IUPAC |