Bruce E. Koel

Bruce E. Koel is a Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University and Associated Faculty in Chemistry, MAE, PRISM, ACEE, and HMEI. He is a NSTX-U and LTX-b Collaborator at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. His research involves surface and interfacial processes and probes, focusing on the surface science of catalysis and plasma-materials interactions. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, APS, and AVS. He received the George A. Olah Award in Hydrocarbon or Petroleum Chemistry from the ACS in 2007. He has also held faculty and administrative positions at CU Boulder, USC, and Lehigh University, and served as a member of the Science Advisory Committee of the Center for Functional Nanomaterials at Brookhaven National Laboratory and member of the Governing Board of the Council for Chemical Research. In 2019 he co-founded Princeton NuEnergy Inc., which is developing direct recycling technology for lithium ion batteries.