Robert J. Farrauto, PhD, is Professor of Practice in the Earth and Environmental Engineering Department at Columbia University in the City of New York. He retired from BASF (formerly Engelhard) as a Research Vice President after 37 years of service. He has over 40 years of industrial experience in catalysis and has commercialized a number of technologies in the environmental, chemical, and alternative energy fields.
He holds 58 US patents and over 120 peer-reviewed journal publications. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses focusing on catalysis. He is a co-author of Fundamentals of Industrial Catalytic Processes, Second Edition, (Wiley, 2005) and Catalytic Air Pollution Control : Commercial Technology, Third Edition (Wiley, 2016). Lucas Dorazio, PhD, is a Senior Research Chemical Engineer at BASF Corporation in Iselin, NJ where he currently manages a team focused on development of new refinery catalysts.
He is also Adjunct Assistant Professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology where he teaches courses on environmental and industrial catalysis. C. H. Bartholomew, PhD, is Emeritus Professor at Brigham Young University in Provo, UT. He continues to conduct catalysis research, is active in both consulting, as well as specialized teaching for AIChE short courses in catalysis. He has been principal investigator or co-investigator on over 70 grants and contracts and has supervised more than 175 research students.
He is the author or co-author of five books and 160 peer-reviewed papers and reviews with emphasis on catalysis.