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, GreeceGraduate 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.