Editor-in-Chief

J. Ilja Siepmann, Ph.D.: Distinguished McKnight University Professor; Distinguished Teaching Professor; Professor of Chemistry; Department of Chemistry; University of Minnesota; 207 Pleasant Street SE; Minneapolis, MN 55455-0431; E-mail: [email protected]

Selected Awards and Honors

Fellow, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2018
Yeram S. Touloukian Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018
Fellow, American Physical Society, 2013

Current Reasearch

Ilja Siepmann’s scientific interests are focused on particle-based simulations of complex chemical systems, including the prediction of phase and sorption equilibria and of thermophysical properties, the understanding of retention processes in chromatography, and the investigation of microheterogeneous fluids and nucleation phenomena. The Siepmann group also contributes the development of efficient Monte Carlo algorithms and transferable force fields.

Biography

Ilja Siepmann carried out his undergraduate studies at the University of Freiburg and received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Cambridge. Before joining the University of Minnesota in 1994, Ilja carried out postdoctoral research at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, the Royal/Shell Laboratory in Amsterdam, and the University of Pennsylvania’s Laboratory for the Research on the Structure of Matter. In addition to an appointment in Chemistry, Ilja is also a member of the graduate faculties in chemical physics, chemical engineering, and materials science at the University of Minnesota. Since 2014, Ilja is the director of the DOE-funded Nanoporous Materials Genome Center.