Javier B. Giorgi, affiliated professor at Chemistry Laboratory

Professor, Department of chemistry and biomolecular sciences, University of Ottawa, Canada - Affiliated Professor 2023-25 - April 21 to May 21, 2023 (Stays planned in January 2024 and April 2025) - Inviting Researcher: Carine Michel Javier Giorgi is a Full Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Ottawa. He received his BSc from Concordia University and his PhD from the University of Toronto (supervisor: Prof. JC Polanyi, Nobel Prize, 1986) in the area of reaction dynamics in surface reactions. He was a Humboldt fellow at the Fritz Haber Institute (Max Planck) with Prof HJ Freund for the study of surface interactions in catalysis. He has developed a research program in materials and surface science for the study of catalytic processes in fuel cells, biomass utilization and atmospheric chemistry. Prof Giorgi has a long history of collaboration and interactions with the ENS de Lyon. He was part of the original team involved in the LIA-FunCat project that provided funding for 10 years for collaborative work between the University of Ottawa and the ENS de Lyon. Previous collaborative work involved the interactions between lignin model molecules and platinum.