Prof. Suljo Linic

Prof. Suljo Linic was born in northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he completed his elementary and high school education. His family were forcefully displaced from Bosnia during the Bosnian war of 1990s. He moved to the USA in 1994 after being awarded a faculty scholarship from West Chester University in PA. Suljo obtained his PhD degree in chemical engineering in 2004 working with Prof. Mark Barteau at University of Delaware, specializing in surface and colloidal chemistry and heterogeneous catalysis. He was a Max Planck postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Dr. Matthias Scheffler at the Fritz Haber Institute, working on first principles studies of surface chemistry. He started his independent faculty career in 2004 at the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor where he is currently Martin Lewis Perl Collegiate Professor of Chemical Engineering. Suljo's research has been recognized through multiple awards. There are too many to list here, but some of the most prominent ones include the Gabor A. Somorjai Award by the American Chemical Society, the Emmett Award by The North American Catalysis Society, the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum Young Investigator Award by American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award awarded by the Dreyfus Foundation. Suljo has presented more than 200 invited and keynote lectures. He is also an associate editor of ACS Catalysis.