Prof. Mpourmpakis' Awards (Selected)

2022

Panhellenic Catalysis Symposium Award

2020

Named “Emerging Scholar” by the AIChE Journal

2019

Bodossaki Foundation Distinguished Young Scientist Award

Accepting the award from the President of Greece, Prokopis Pavlopoulos

Presenting the work of CANELa

2018

Named one of 25 "Emerging Investigators" by the Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data

2017

Named Bicentennial Alumni Faculty Fellow in Engineering

2017

CAREER Award by the National Science Foundation (NSF)

2016

James Pommersheim Award for Excellence in Teaching in Chemical Engineering by the University of Pittsburgh

2016

Awarded the Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator (DNI) Grant from the American Chemical Society (ACS)

2015

Elected "Who's Who in Energy" by the Pittsburgh Business Times

2010

Participated in the 60th Nobel Laureates Meeting in Lindau-Germany, as a distinguished young researcher (An interdisciplinary meeting which brought together 500 young researchers who passed a multi-stage international selection procedure from around the globe, with Nobel Laureates from the fields of physiology, medicine, physics and chemistry).

With Prof. Rudolf A. Marcus (Chemistry Nobel prize 1992)

With Prof. Walter Kohn (Chemistry Nobel prize 1998)

2010

Greek Army Deferment as "distinguished scientist"

2005

Stratis Sotirchos Award of “Best Research Work of New Scientist” in Panhellenic Symposium of Porous Materials. Demokritos, Athens, Greece

Graduate Student Awards

2023

Mona Abdelgaid received the PCCS-Lubrizol Honorary Lecture award in the Pittsburgh-Cleveland Catalysis Society Annual Meeting.

2023

John El Berch received the first prize poster award in the Pittsburgh-Cleveland Catalysis Society Annual Meeting.

2023

Andreas Towarnicky received the second prize poster award in the Pittsburgh-Cleveland Catalysis Society Annual Meeting.

2023

Maya Salem won one of the three poster awards in the ARC 2023 symposium from the Center for Research Computing!

2023

Mona Abdelgaid is selected as the Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department’s Teaching Assistant of the Year for the 2022-2023 academic year by the Engineering Graduate Student Organization!

2023

Mona Abdelgaid received The 2023 Kokes Award for the 28th North American Catalysis Society in Rhode Island

2023

Mona Abdelgaid received The American Chemical Society Catalysis Travel Award for the Spring meeting in Indianapolis.

2022

Evan Miu received the second presentation award in the Annual Pitt Chemical Engineering Department Research Day.

2022

Evan Miu received the Micromeritics Lecture Award in the Pittsburgh-Cleveland Catalysis Society Annual Meeting.

2022

Sungil Hong received the third prize poster award in the Pittsburgh-Cleveland Catalysis Society Annual Meeting.

2022

Anantha Venkataraman Nagarajan received the Pitt ChemE Summer 2022 oustanding paper award.

2022

Evan Miu received the Engineering Graduate Student Association Outstanding Teaching Assistant in Chemical Engineering Department Award

2022

Anantha Venkataraman Nagarajan received the Engineering Graduate Student Association Outstanding Research Assistant in Chemical Engineering Department Award

2021

Michael Cowan received the prestigious CoMSEF Award at the annual 2021 AIChE Meeting.

2021

Anantha Venkataraman Nagarajan received the first prize poster award in the Pittsburgh-Cleveland Catalysis Society Annual Meeting.

2021

Sungil Hong and Kaylen Ocampo shared the second prize poster award in the Pittsburgh-Cleveland Catalysis Society Annual Meeting.

2021

Anantha Venkataraman Nagarajan received the AIChE 2021 National Meeting Division of Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Student Travel Award.

2021

Mona Abdelgaid has been selected to receive the 2021 Egyptian Student Association North America (ESANA) Excellence Scholarship.

2020

Anantha Venkataraman Nagarajan has been selected to receive a PQI poster award due to his outstanding poster presentation at PQI Quantum2020 Remote Poster Session.

2020

James Dean has been selected to receive a travel award from the Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division to attend the 2020 AIChE annual meeting.

2020

Michael Cowan selected by the Pittsburgh Foundation to receive a one-year scholarship from the Wellington C. Carl Fund.

2020

Evan Miu received the Pitt ΩΧΕ Departmental Research Day Graduate Poster Award

2020

James Dean received the Pitt ChemE Fall 2019 oustanding paper award.

2019

Michael Cowan received a Travel Grant Award from the Engineering Graduate Student Organization.

2019

Michael Cowan received the Pitt ΩΧΕ Departmental Research Day Graduate Poster Award.

2018

Michael Taylor received the James M. Coull Memorial Fellowship Award for outstanding PhD student.

2018

Michael Taylor received the prestigious CoMSEF Award at the annual 2018 AIChE Meeting.

2018

James Dean received the first prize poster award in the Pittsburgh-Cleveland Catalysis Society Annual Meeting.

2018

Natalie Austin received the Engineering Graduate Student Organization Award for outstanding research assistant.

2017

Natalie Austin received the James M. Coull Memorial Fellowship Award for outstanding PhD student.

2017

Natalie Austin has been selected to participate in the 67th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (in Chemistry) after passing a multistage, worldwide selection process.

2017

James Dean received the second prize poster award in the Pittsburgh-Cleveland Catalysis Society Annual Meeting.

2017

Michael Taylor received the Best Poster Award at the Advancing Research through Computing (ARC) Symposium.

2016

Pavlo Kostetskyy received the AIChE 2016 National Meeting Division of Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Student Travel Award.

2016

Natalie Austin received the Women of Color STEM Conference Student Leadership Academic Award.

2016

Natalie Austin received the Pitt ΩΧΕ Departmental Research Day 1st Graduate Poster Award.

2016

Michael Taylor received the prestigious NSF Fellowship.

2016

Pavlo Kostetskyy received the AIChE Division of Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Student Travel Award.

2016

Pavlo Kostetskyy received the AIChE Division of Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Student Travel Award.

2016

Natalie Austin received the Pitt ΩΧΕ Departmental Research Day 1st Graduate Poster Award.

2016

Pavlo Kostetskyy received the AIChE Division of Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Student Travel Award.

2015

Pavlo Kostetskyy won the Summer Term 2015 Outstanding PhD Paper.

2015

Natalie Austin received the prestigious NSF Fellowship.

2014

Natalie Austin won the Fall Term 2014 Outstanding PhD Paper.

2014

Natalie Austin received the first poster award in the Pittsburgh-Cleveland Catalysis Society Annual Meeting.

2014

Natalie Austin was selected and sponsored to participate in the Graduate Summer School: Electronic Structure Theory for Materials and (Bio)molecules, UCLA.

Undergraduate Student Awards

2022

Malena Rybacki was one of 24 awardees, selected nationwide, to participate in the Future Leaders Symposium, hosted by the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University October 23-24.

2020

Julia McKay won an award for her poster presentation in 2020 Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting (section Materials Engineering & Sciences).

2019

Mahmoud Ramadan selected as 2019 Barry M. Goldwater Fellow.

2016

Peter Tancini received the 1st place in "Computing and Process Control II" and the 1st place in the "Computing and Simulation Technology Division" for his undergraduate poster presentation at the AIChE 2016 National Meeting in San Francisco.

2016

Peter Tancini received the Pitt ΩΧΕ Departmental Research Day 2nd Undergraduate Poster Award.

2016

Peter Tancini received the Swanson School of Engineering (SSOE) Summer Internship Award to perform research at Politecnico di Milano.

2015

Peter Tancini received a travel award for the AIChE 2015 undergraduate conference.

2015

Peter Tancini received the 3rd poster award in the AIChe 2015 National Meeting in Salt Lake City.