CURRICULUM VITAE

Dr. Ilona Kretzschmar

Chemical Engineering

City College of New York

140th Street at Convent Avenue
New York, NY 10031
Tel. (212)-650-6769
FAX: (212)-650-6660

Current Position:

March 2024 - June 2024	Gastprofessor (Sabbatical) at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Technical University of Vienna in the Group of Prof. Emanuela Bianchi
August 2023 - February 2024	Visiting Professorial Fellow (Sabbatical) in the School of Chemical Engineering Faculty of Engineering at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in the Group of Prof. Patrick Spicer
August 2023 - February 2024	Visiting Professor (Sabbatical) at the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Melbourne in the Group of Prof. Raymond Dagastine
September 2019 - present	Herbert G. Kayser Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Department of Chemical Engineering, City College of New York
January 2016 - June 2023	Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering, City College of New York
September 2013 - present	Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, City College of New York
September 2008 - August 2013	Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, City College of New York
September 2004 - August 2008	Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, City College of New York Topics: “Janus and Patchy Particle Fabrication and Assembly, Janus Particles as Emulsion Stabilizerd, Inverse Opals as Electrodes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells”
Doctoral and Postdoctoral Research
June 2002 - August 2004	Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University Supervisor: Prof. Mark Reed Topic: “Nanomaterial device fabrication and development of electrochemistry for self-assembled monolayer quality control.”
January 2000 - May 2002	Feodor-Lynen Fellow at Harvard University Humboldt Supervisor: Prof. William N. Lipscomb Lab Supervisor: Prof. Cynthia M. Friend Topic: “C-C coupling and Radical Reactions on Clean and Modified Transition Metal Surfaces”
October - December 1999	Research Assistant at the Technical University of Berlin Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Drs. h.c. Helmut Schwarz Topic: “Vanadium Oxides (SFB 546)”
May, 31st 1999	Ph.D. (summa cum laude) Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Drs. h.c. Helmut Schwarz Topic: “Energetics and Reactivity of the Binary Transition Metal Sulfides of the 3rd and 4th Row in the Gas Phase”
March - April 1998 January - February 1997	Research Stays at the University of Utah Supervisor: Prof. Peter B. Armentrout Topic: “Determination of Transition Metal Chalcogenide Bond Energies Using the Guided Ion Beam Technique”
April 1996 - September 1999	Technical University of Berlin Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Drs. h.c. Helmut Schwarz Topic: “Investigation of the Reactivity of Transition Metal Chalcogenides in the Gas Phase”
Higher Education
October 1994 - March 1996	Technical University of Berlin Diploma in Chemistry (summa cum laude)
October 1993 - September 1994	Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland Chemistry Study at DCU
October 1991 - September 1993	Technical University of Berlin Prediploma in Chemistry (summa cum laude)
Courses Taught
ChE 22900	Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics I Syllabus Taught: Spring/Fall 2005, Sping 2009
ChE 31000	Introduction to Materials Science Syllabus Taught: Sping 2007
ChE 33000	Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics II Syllabus Taught: Fall 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010
ChE 59808, ChE 49808	Nanomaterials Syllabus Taught: Fall/Spring 2007, Fall 2008, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2015
ChE 59806	Nanomaterials Laboratory Syllabus Taught: Spring 2008, 2009
ChE I2800	Advanced Thermodynamics Syllabus Taught: Spring 2008, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014
ChE I5700	Advanced Material Syllabus Taught: Spring/Fall 2005, Sping 2009
ChE I8900	Nanotechnology Taught: Sping 2014
Fellowships & Grants
2013	CCNY's Mentoring Award in Architecture, Biomedical Education, Engineering and Science
2007-2012	CAREER Award of the National Science Foundation
2000-2001	Feodor Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
1996 -1998	Scholarship holder of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie
1996	International Student Summer School of the BASF
1993-1994	ERASMUS Exchange Scholarship for Study at DCU

CURRICULUM VITAE

Dr. Ilona Kretzschmar

Chemical Engineering

City College of New York

Current Position:

Doctoral and Postdoctoral Research

Higher Education

Courses Taught

Fellowships & Grants