ผู้เขียน: Paul L. Alsters

Shannon Stahl is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, since 1999. After undergraduate studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, he attended the California Institute of Technology, USA, for doctoral studies. He worked on Pt-catalyzed oxidation of methane to methanol in the laboratory of Prof. John E. Bercaw and obtained his Ph.D. in 1997. From 1997-1999, he conducted postdoctoral research in the lab of Prof. Stephen J. Lippard at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, investigating the enzyme methane monooxygenase. He has published >120 research articles and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Humboldt Senior Research Award, ACS Cope Scholar Award, Sloan Research Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the AAAS. His research group specializes in the development and mechanistic characterization of catalytic aerobic oxidation reactions. Paul Alsters is a Principal Scientist at DSM Ahead R&D B.V. – Innovative Synthesis (Geleen, The Netherlands). He received his Ph.D. at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, in 1992, working on C-O coupling reactions of organopalladium compounds under the guidance of Prof. G. van Koten. He did postdoctoral work on asymmetric titanium mediated nucleophilic additions to aldehydes in the laboratory of R.O. Duthaler at Ciba-Geigy in Basel, Switzerland. He joined DSM in 1993. His main areas of interest are development of scalable break-through methods for new or existing products, and liquid-phase catalysis, with an emphasis on C-X or C-C coupling reactions and oxidation catalysis. His research activities frequently operate at the interplay of catalysis/synthesis and other sciences, in particular materials science. He is the (co-)author of >70 articles or book chapters and (co-)inventor of >20 patents.