Editors’ Biographies
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Sherine O. Obare Sherine O. Obare is a Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and also the Associate Chair and Graduate Director at the Department of Chemistry at Western Michigan University. She received her undergraduate degree in Chemistry at West Virginia State University, and she received her Ph.D. at the University of South Carolina with Professor Catherine J. Murphy. She completed a two-year Dreyfus postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University with Professor Gerald. J. Meyer. In 2004, Dr. Obare joined Western Michigan University as an Assistant Professor, was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure in 2009, and was promoted to full Professor in 2014. Her research interests lie in the area of designing nanoscale materials for environmental remediation, improved healthcare, and alternative energy. Her work has been featured in over 100 publications in the form of journal articles, review articles, book chapters, and conference presentations. Dr. Obare’s research program has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, the Army Research Office, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Education, and the Michigan Economic Development Corporation. Dr. Obare is the recipient of several awards including the 2009 International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) Young Observer Award, the National Science Foundation CAREER award, and the American Competitiveness and Innovation (ACI) Fellowship. She is also an Associate Editor for The Journal of Nanomaterials. At Western Michigan University, Dr. Obare has been the recipient of the 2012 Emerging Scholar Award and the 2012 Faculty Achievement Award in Professional and Community Service. Dr. Obare has served as the Director of the NIH-sponsored Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program at Western Michigan University — a program that recruits underrepresented minority students from community colleges in Michigan and supports them in their pursuits for advanced degrees in biomedical and behavioral sciences. Dr. Obare served on the NOBCChE Executive Board for three years and chaired the National NOBCChE Secondary Education Science Bowl and Science Fair for seven years. Dr. Obare has organized symposia for the Division of Environmental Chemistry and the Colloids and Surface Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society. She has also served on the International Conference Planning Committee for the Annual Meetings for Advanced Oxidation Technologies since 2009. In 2009, she served as a Scientific Committee Member for the International Conference on Nanoscale Science and Technology in Tunisia that was sponsored by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2012. In 2013 Obare was named as one of the top 25 female professors in Michigan. © 2014 American Chemical Society In Green Technologies for the Environment; Obare, et al.; ACS Symposium Series; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 2014.
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Rafael Luque Professor Rafael Luque received a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Universidad de Cordoba, Spain in 2005. His research program and expertise focus on (nano)materials science, heterogeneous (nano)catalysis, microwave and flow chemistry, biofuels, and green chemical methods in synthetic organic chemistry. He has published over 220 research articles, filed 3 patent applications, and edited seven books; he has also written several book chapters. He has given Invited, Keynote, and Plenary lectures, along with keynote addresses, at several international conferences. Professor Luque is also heavily involved in chemical education and promoting science in developing countries. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Boards of several prestigious journals including Chemical Society Reviews (RSC), Catalysis Communications (Elsevier), Current Organic Synthesis (Bentham Publishers), Sustainable Chemical Processes (Chemistry Central), and Current Green Chemistry (Bentham Publishers). He is also Editor-in-Chief of the porous section of the journal Materials and Series Editor of Topics in Current Chemistry (Springer). Professor Luque’s recent awards include the Marie Curie Prize from Instituto Andaluz de Quimica Fina in Spain (2011), the Green Talents award from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in Germany (2011), the TR35 Spain from Technology Review and MIT as one of the top 10 young entrepreneurs in Spain (2012), and, most recently, the RSC Environment, Sustainability and Energy Early Career Award (2013) from the Royal Society of Chemistry UK. He has also been recently honored as 2013 Distinguished Engineering Fellow and Visiting Professor from CBME at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He currently serves as Chinese Academy of Sciences Visiting Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry of the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry. Prof. Luque combines his academic duties with his activities as a young entrepreneur; he co-founded the spin-off companies Starbon® Technologies at York, UK (2011, http://www.starbon-technologies.com/) — which markets novel biomass derived carbonaceous materials — along with Green Applied Solutions S.L. (GAS, http://greenappliedsolutions.com/) in Cordoba, Spain (2012), which is an R&D and consultancy technological company providing waste valorization methods for marketable products. More recently, he has taken part in the founding of Posidonia Oceanica S.L. (2013, www.posidoniaoceanica.com), in Spain.
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