ADEL SAROFIM AWARD
The Adel Sarofim award is presented every
two years to a scientist(s) for outstanding advancements in
understanding combustion processes, formation of combustion
by-products and mechanisms of their health effects. The
awardee is selected from a pool of nominated researchers by
the Executive Committee of the International Congress on
Combustion By-products and Their Health Effects. Awardees
are selected for their internationally renown scientific
contributions to the fields mentioned above and for
exemplary mentorship of students and junior investigators.
History of the award:
The Adel Sarofim Award was originally established to honor
Dr. Adel Sarofim, who passed away in Dec 4, 2011 at the age
of 77, for advancing our understanding of the mechanisms of
pollutant emissions from combustors. At the time of his
death, Dr. Sarofim was Senior Staff at Reaction Engineering
International, a Presidential Professor in the Department of
Chemical Engineering at the University of Utah, and
Professor Emeritus: Department of Chemical Engineering at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He had >350
publications and >5,000 citations and had trained or
mentored >80 PhD students. Dr. Sarofim participated in
numerous national and international advisory panels and
editorial boards. In 2003, he was elected to the prestigious
National Academy of Engineering and in 2004, he was awarded
the George Westinghouse Gold Medal by the American Society
of Mechanical Engineers.
2017 AWARD was presented to Dr. Angela Violi
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