Fabio H. Ribeiro is the W. Nicholas and Elizabeth H. Delgass Distinguished Professor in Chemical Engineering, Director of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center on Innovative and Strategic Transformation of Alkane Resources (CISTAR), and Co-Director of the Purdue Engineering Initiative on Leading Energy-Transition Advances and Pathways to Sustainability (LEAPS) at the Charles D. Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University. CISTAR is a nationwide collaboration involving five universities and 32 industry partners, focusing on transformative innovations in catalysis, separations, and process enhancements to responsibly harness U.S. shale gas potential and reduce carbon footprints. LEAPS is a college-wide initiative aimed at creating scalable technologies for the energy transition, transforming the nature of energy-focused learning, and accelerating the translation of these technologies through academic-industry synergies. Ribeiro's research, with over 165 scholarly publications, is distinguished by his expertise in chemical reaction kinetics and in situ and operando characterization tools. His current work addresses the pressing challenge of energy transition, leveraging his findings with the collaborative efforts of CISTAR and LEAPS teams.
Ribeiro has served as the editor for the Journal of Catalysis and chaired AIChE’s Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division. He is a fellow of AIChE, the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His achievements have been noted with many honors, most recently the 2024 R. H. Wilhelm Award in Chemical Reaction Engineering, 2024 Ambassadeurs@INC, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Chimie, France, and the 2023 Exceptional Achievement Award from the ACS Division of Catalysis Science and Technology.