Service to Science and Engineering

Editorial, Reviewer and Conference Activities

Editorial Appointments

  • Editorial Board Member: Scientific Reports (Nature) (2021 invited as an inaugural board member in environmental engineering), ACS Energy and Fuels (2021), Energies (2021)
  • Associate Editor, Frontiers in Energy Research – Carbon Capture, Storage, and Utilization (2017)
  • Guest Editor of the Special Issue, “Emerging technologies and associated scientific advancements for CCUS deployment” in Frontiers in Energy Research – Carbon Capture, Storage, and Utilization (2020)
  • Guest Editor, ACS Energy and Fuels, Special Issue for Carbon Dioxide Capture and Utilization – Closing the Carbon Cycle (2018)
  • Topic Editor of the Special Issue, “Accelerated Carbonation for Environmental and Material Engineering” in Frontiers in Energy Research – Carbon Capture, Storage, and Utilization (2015)

Reviewer and Conference Activities

  • Regularly review manuscripts (> 100 since August 2013) for the journals including

Nature Earth and Environment; Journal of Physical Chemistry C; ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering; ACS Earth and Space Chemistry; Energy & Fuels, Fuel; Environmental Science and Technology; Environmental Research Letters; Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects; ACS Applied Polymer Materials; Reaction Chemistry and Engineering; Journal of Hazardous Materials; Chemical Engineering Science; Chemical Engineering Journal; Environmental Science & Technology; Environmental Science & Technology Letters; Environmental Science: Nano; RSC Advances; AICHE Journal; Desalination; Journal of Crystal Growth; Journal of Cleaner Production; Journal of the American Ceramic Society; Journal of CO2 Utilization; Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems; Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta; Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering; Society of Petroleum Engineers; ACS Omega; Construction and Building Materials; Journal of Industrial and Chemical Engineering; Nuclear Engineering and Technology; Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering; Greenhouse Gases – Science and Technology; Construction and Building Materials; Minerals; Geosciences; Mineralogy and Petrology; International Journal of Molecular Sciences; Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change; and International Journal of Environment and Waste Management

  • Reviewer for The National Academies Report, A Research Agenda for Carbon Dioxide Removal and Reliable Sequestration (2018)
  • Mission Innovation – Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (September 25 – 29, 2017)
    • Panel lead for setting priority research directions for “CO2 utilization for enhanced hydrocarbon recovery”
    • Panel member for setting priority research directions for “geologic CO2 storage”
  • National Petroleum Council – Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (December 1, 2018 – January 30, 2019)
    • Panel lead for setting priority research directions for “CO2 utilization for enhanced hydrocarbon recovery” and “CO2 utilization as carbonates”
  • Review funding proposals for U.S. Department of Energy – Office of Basic Energy Sciences: Separations Science and Geosciences (2020), SBIR/STTR grants for Geosciences (2020), Office of Geothermal Energy (2020), Office of Technology Transitions (2017, 2019); U. S. Army (2020); NSF – SBIR/STTR (2020), CBET – Process Systems, Reaction Engineering and Molecular Thermodynamics (2019); the American Chemical Society – Petroleum Research Fund (ACS-PRF) (2016, 2018); The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) in UK (2015).
  • Chair of the Scattering Chem/Bio/Environ Proposal Review Panel (PRP) at the Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory (2018 – present)
  • Member, Beamline Review Team, XSD Chemical and Materials Science, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory (2020)
  • Reviewer, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL), Beamtime request (2018)

Conference-related activities

  • Chair, AIChE Competitive Energy Systems Conference (2021)
  • Chair of the ACS Energy and Fuels Session, “Gas Utilization, Conversion and Storage” (August 16-20, 2020)
  • Chair of the ACS Energy and Fuels Session, “Utilization and Storage of CO2 in the Subsurface” (August 16-20, 2020)
  • Co-Chair of the ACS Energy and Fuels Session, “ACS Women in Energy” (August 2020)
  • Co-Chair of the AGU Session, “Toward a holistic understanding of the physics of unconventional and tight formations: characterization, transport, reactions, geomechanics and scale translation” (December 7-11, 2020)
  • Co-Chair of the Goldschmidt Session, “Minerals to Materials: Geomimetic Pathways and Exotic Reactivity for a Sustainable Future” (June 24, 2020)
  • Scientific Committee, Community Climate Intervention Strategies (CCIS) Workshop, Boulder, CO (2020)
  • Symposium Organizer with the Women’s Chemists Committee and the Division of Energy and Fuels at ACS Fall Meeting in 2019. The session is titled, Accelerating Scientific Breakthroughs at the Energy-Water Nexus in Engineered and Natural Environments (August 2019)
  • Program Committee Member, The 6th International Conference on CO2 Emission Control and Utilization (Hangzhou, China; June 15-18, 2018)
  • Technical Committee Member, International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology (ISSST 2018): Advances in Circular Economy (Buffalo, NY; June 25-27, 2018)
  • Co-chair of AIChE session, “Fundamentals of fluidization” (Orlando, FL; November 10-15, 2019, one session)
  • Poster Session Judge, ACS Energy and Fuels Poster Session (March 18-23, 2018)
  • Chair of the ACS Energy and Fuels Session, “Innovative materials and integrated pathways for sustainable energy and resource production” (Boston, MA; August 19-23, 2018, two sessions)
  • Chair of the 6th International Conference on CO2 Emission Control and Utilization Session, “Geological Carbon Storage” (Hangzhou, China; June 15-17, 2018, one session)
  • Chair of the Carbon Management Technology Conference session, “Storage Integrity and Monitoring” and co-chair of the sessions, “Enhanced Oil Recovery II” and “Enhanced Oil Recovery III” (Houston, TX; July 17-20, 2017, two sessions)
  • Co-chair of AIChE session, “Fundamental and Applied Catalysis for CO2 Conversion into Fuels and Chemicals” (Salt Lake City, UT; November 2015, one session)
  • Co-chair of AIChE session, “Fluidization and Fluid-Particle Systems for Energy and Environmental Applications II” (Salt Lake City, UT; November 2015, one session)
  • Chair of The 12th International Conference on Gas-Liquid and Gas-Liquid-Solid Reactor Engineering (GLS12) session, “Novel Gas-Liquid and Gas-Liquid-Solid Reaction Pathways for Sustainable Energy and Environment” (New York, NY; June 2015, one session)
  • Chair of The Fifth International Conference on Accelerated Carbonation for Environmental and Material Engineering (ACEME 2015) session, “Utilization of the Carbonated Materials I” (New York, NY; June 2015, one session)
  • Chair of ACS session, “Enhanced Extraction & Utilization of Unconventional Energy Sources: Hydrofracking, EOR and Novel Approaches” (Denver, CO; March 2015, one session)
  • Co-chair of AIChE session, “Circulating Fluidized Beds and Measurement Techniques in Fluid-Particle Systems” (Atlanta, GA; November 2014, one session)
  • Judge for Sigma Xi Student Research Showcase (March 18-23, 2013 and March 17-23, 2014)