SOPHIE WILKINSON

On Oct. 1, Michael T. Klein, dean and professor of engineering at Rutgers University, will become editor of the American Chemical Society journal Energy & Fuels. Klein, who is currently associate editor, will succeed John W. Larsen, a chemistry professor at Lehigh University. Larsen has served as editor since the bimonthly journal's inception in 1987. Energy & Fuels covers advances in the chemistry of nonnuclear energy sources, including petroleum, coal, biomass, applied catalysis, and combustion.

Randall E. Winans, a senior scientist at Argonne National Laboratory and a member of the journal's editorial board, says Klein is recognized internationally as a leader in the field of kinetic modeling of complex reaction systems, an important aspect of energy research. Among the other strengths Winans says Klein brings to his new role: "He spans Energy & Fuels' two communities--chemical engineering and chemistry. He talks well with both and understands both."

Klein earned a B.S. in chemical engineering at the University of Delaware in 1977 and a Sc.D. in chemical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981. He joined the University of Delaware faculty as an assistant professor of chemical engineering and was promoted to associate professor in 1985. Two years later, he was appointed associate dean of the College of Engineering, and in 1988 he became director of the Center for Catalytic Science & Technology. He became a full professor in 1989 and chaired the chemical engineering department for five years beginning in 1991. He joined the Rutgers faculty as dean and professor of engineering in 1998.

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