Service to Science and Engineering

Editorial, Reviewer and Conference Activities

Editorial Appointments

  • Associate Editor: npj Materials Sustainability (Nature) (since 2023)
  • 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, “Towards 2030: A CCUS Perspective on Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 7” in Frontiers in Energy Research – Carbon Capture, Storage, and Utilization (2022)
  • Guest Editor of the Special Issue, “Women in Energy” in Frontiers in Energy Research (2021-2022)
  • Guest Editor of the Special Issue, “Women in Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage” in Frontiers in Energy Research – Carbon Capture, Storage, and Utilization (2022)
  • 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 (> 150 since August 2013) for the journals including

 

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Nature Reviews Chemistry, Nature Earth and Environment; Geochemistry, Journal of Physical Chemistry C; ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering; Environmental Science: Nano; ACS Applied Nano Materials; ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces; 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; RSC Advances; AICHE Journal; Desalination; Journal of Crystal Growth; Journal of Cleaner Production; Journal of the American Ceramic Society; Journal of CO2 Utilization; Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering; Frontiers in Earth Science – Economic Geology, Geophysics, Geosystems; Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta; ACS Earth and Space Chemistry; 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

  • NASEM Report on Carbon Dioxide Utilization Markets and Infrastructure: Status and Opportunities: A Second Report (2023)
    • Contributor to sections on integrated CO2 capture and conversion for producing low carbon construction materials
  • DOE Basic Research Needs Report on Carbon Removal (2022)
    • Contributor to sections on interfacial phenomena associated with carbon transformations and CO2 capture and conversion
  • 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”
  • Reviewer for The National Academies Report, A Research Agenda for Carbon Dioxide Removal and Reliable Sequestration (2018)
  • Reviewer of the DOE Basic Energy Sciences (BES) Geoscience Program for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (2021)
  • Review funding proposals for U.S. Department of Energy – Office of Basic Energy Sciences: Separations Science and Geosciences (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023), SBIR/STTR grants (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, 2022); 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 – 2023)
  • Committee Member, ACS Energy and Fuels Division Strategic Planning Review (2022)
  • 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

  • Vice Chair and Chair of the Gordon Research Conference – Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage in 2023 and 2025, respectively
  • Discussion Leader, Gordon Research Conference – Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (2022)
  • Chair, AIChE Competitive Energy Systems Conference (2021)
  • Chair of the ACS Energy and Fuels Sessions: “Advances in CO2 Capture and Conversion,” and “ACS Women in Energy Symposium” (August 13 – 17, 2023)
  • Chair of the ACS Energy and Fuels Sessions: “Chemical Transformations Powered by Renewable Energy Resources for Carbon Capture, Conversion, Storage and Removal, Low Carbon Energy Carriers, and Metal Recovery,” “ENFL Midcareer Researcher Award in Honor of Prof. Ah-Hyung (Alissa) Park,” and “ACS Women in Energy Symposium” (August 21 – 25, 2022)
  • Chair of the ACS Energy and Fuels Sessions: “Gas and Fluids Separations, Utilization, and Storage”, “Advancements in Sustainable Subsurface Energy Science” and “ACS Women in Energy” (August 22-26, 2021)
  • Chair of the ACEME Session, “CO2 Utilization by Mineral Carbonation” (May 16-19, 2021)
  • Chair of the ACS Energy and Fuels Sessions: “Gas Utilization, Conversion and Storage”, “Utilization and Storage of CO2 in the Subsurface” and “ACS Women in Energy” (August 16-20, 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)

Outreach Activities

  • Invited panelist, Diversity and Inclusion Program (DIP) – Industry and Entrepreneurship Panel, Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University (September 8, 2023)
  • Invited speaker, Cornell Green Tech Innovation Fellowship (August 26, 2023)
  • Invited speaker, Cornell W.O.M.E.N., Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University (April 22, 2023)
  • Invited panelist for The Asia Pacific Leadership Conference, Cornell University (April 14 – 16, 2023)
  • Invited panelist for the NSF CAREER Review Panel, Cornell University (April 21, 2023)s
  • Invited panelist, Sigma Xience organized by Sigma Xi (March 21, 2023)
  • Invited speaker, Then OpenAir Collective (February 14, 2023)
  • Invited panelist for The 2030 Project in New York City (September 7, 2022)
  • Invited speaker to discuss sustainability and The 2030 Project, Cornell Class of 1971 Reunion Celebration (June 11, 2022)
  • Invited panelist for the Cornell Future Forum in San Francisco to discuss The 2030 Project and sustainability efforts at Cornell University (May 11, 2022)
  • Invited panelist for the Cornell NSF CAREER panel: Working with reviewer feedback (May 19, 2022)
  • Invited panelist for ACS Women in Energy (September 25, 2021)
  • Invited panelist on proposal writing for early career scientists, College of Mines and Earth Sciences at the University of Utah and DOE EFRC Multi-Scale Fluid-Solid Interactions in Architected and Natural Materials (September 9, 2021)
  • Invited participant, “Can turning CO2 to stone help save the planet?” PBS Terra (September 2, 2021)
  • Invited participant, “Texas grid trouble is far from over” PBS Nova (March 19, 2021)
  • Organizer of the ACS Women in Energy Symposia, ACS Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA (August 25-29, 2019, August 16-20, 2020, August 22-26, 2021)
  • Chair, Competitive Energy Systems Conference (April 13-15, 2021)
  • Invited speaker, NEST Webinar on Importance and Impact of Research, The Doon School, Dehradun, India (July 24, 2020)
  • CEE faculty representative in Admitted Student Diversity Day, University of Wisconsin, Madison (April 14, 2018)
  • Invited panelist to discuss career choices, SETAC (Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry) Young Environmental Scientists meeting, Madison, WI (March 27, 2018)
  • Women in Leadership, CEE Faculty Representative, University of Wisconsin, Madison (May 23, 2018)
  • Mentor and participant at the Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) residential program seminar, University of Wisconsin, Madison (November 21, 2017)
  • Examiner and coach for the “Potions and Poisons” section in Science Olympiad for middle-school students from across the state of Wisconsin (February 24, 2018, February 23, 2019).
  • Organized the module on converting CO2 to chalk for Expanding Your Horizons for Young Women Exploring Careers in STEM, Madison, WI (November 4, 2017).
  • CEE faculty representative in Java Sessions organized by the College of Engineering at University of Wisconsin, Madison. The event is for first year female undergraduate students in engineering to learn about engineering careers (October 6, 2017).
  • Volunteer at the Womensphere Emerging Leaders Global Summit 2014: The Next Generation of Women Leaders Transforming the World, New York, NY (January 16, 2014).
  • Science lecture at the Birch Wathen Lenox School (3rd and 4th grade students), New York, NY (January 24, 2014).