Prof. Jeffrey Greeley is the Charles Davidson Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University. He obtained his PhD from the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004. Following two years of postdoctoral work at the Technical University of Denmark, he moved to Argonne National Laboratory, where he served for six years as a staff scientist in the Center for Nanoscale Materials before joining the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University in 2013.
Professor Greeley’s research group at Purdue focuses on the use of the first principles Density Functional Theory calculations to understand chemical processes at surfaces and interfaces. His primary interests are in the areas of heterogeneous catalysis and electrocatalysis, and his work has led to the prediction and successful testing of improved heterogeneous catalysts and electrocatalysts for reactions of interest in fuel cells, electrolyzers, and related devices. He has published over 200 research articles in this field.