Giannis Mpourmpakis, PhD
Bicentennial Alumni Faculty Fellow
Associate Professor
Phone: 412-624-7034Google Scholar
Prof. Mpourmpakis' Awards (Selected)
2024
The Provost Award for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring
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)