Curricula Vitae Chunshan SONG, PhD Distinguished Professor of Fuel Science and Professor of Chemical Engineering Director of Energy Institute Director of DOE-NETL University Coalition of Fossil Energy Research Associate Director of Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment The Pennsylvania State University, C211 CUL, University Park, PA 16802-2303, USA Tel: 814-863-4466 // Fax: 814-865-3573 // E-mail: [email protected] http://www.eme.psu.edu/faculty/song; http://www.energy.psu.edu/about.html WORK EXPERIENCE 2007-Present Director of the Energy Institute, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences (May 2007-present), and Associate Director of Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment (Feb 2008-present), the Pennsylvania State University at University Park, PA, USA # Directing the Energy Institute at Penn State involving ~27 tenure-stream faculty members, ~35 research faculty members, 8 support staff members, ~60 graduate, ~15 undergraduate students and ~10 visiting scholars working in 5 bldgs with an annual research expenditures of ~$8 M and general funds of ~$800 K per year on energy and the environmental research. # Advancing Penn State’s energy research and developing external and internal partnerships by working with faculty and staff members and university leaders including close interactions with Deans and Associate Deans for Research in EMS College and COE (6), Director of PSIEE, Vice Presidents for Research (3) involving some interactions with Presidents of Penn State (3) and Chairs/Directors and numerous faculty and staff members in many departments and research institutes/centers in developing partnerships and university-wide strategic initiatives. Serving on various internal and external councils, boards and committees. Interacted directly with Vice Presidents for Research (10) and Institute/Center Directors (20) at other major universities (>15) in building energy-related partnerships. # Interacting with US DOE and other government agencies, US congressional offices, PA state agencies and international organizations for developing new strategic alliances and new multi-faculty research initiatives for enhancing Penn State’s energy R&D; facilitating the energy-related collaborative research in multiple colleges through PSIEE; strengthen the university energy research and education via strategic hiring of new faculty through PSIEE. # Enhancing Penn State’s global engagement networks (GEN) in research and education with international partners (in China, Saudi Arabia, Germany, India, Japan, Kazakhstan) in energy, environment, economics, and chemical engineering. Interacted with Presidents or Vice Presidents (15) at universities overseas in China, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Japan, Korea, and UK. Major accomplishments Include: (1) Established leadership in creating national, regional and local energy R&D partnerships under the support of Penn State Vice President for Research, Deans of EMS College and COE, and Director of PSIEE: Initiated and led the multi-university proposal and established the University Coalition for Fossil Energy Research (UCFER) funded by US DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL, with $20 M DOE funds for 6 yrs during 2015-2021) as Founding Director and Principal Investigator. The UCFER founding members include MIT, Penn State, Princeton Univ, Texas A&M Univ, Univ of Kentucky, Univ of Southern California, Univ of Tulsa, Univ of Wyoming, and Virginia Tech, for which PSU is the lead institution. In 2017 UCFER accepted 7 new university members. (2) Led the Penn State effort with a major leadership role in developing the strategic alliance of Penn State energy research with US DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) that began in Oct 2010 as a part of the NETL-Regional University Alliance (RUA), which resulted in approximately $10 M funds for research at Penn State during 2010-2016. (3) Initiated and led the Penn State Alliance with Chevron starting with the White Paper for Chevron and working with Chevron CTO and R&D leaders, under the support of Penn State Vice President for Research and Dean of EMS, to develop Penn State-Chevron Alliance that successfully started in 2007 with $17 M commitment from Chevron for energy conversion research at Penn State. C. Song / CV - 3/9/2017 - 1 (4) Led the technical efforts for developing the Penn State-cosponsored ConocoPhillips (National) Energy Prize, for which ConocoPhillips committed $3.5 M for this annual national innovation award during 2008-2012 by working with the Dean of EMS College and ConocoPhillips; served as a Judge for this national prize in the 5-Person Judge Panel including the President of National Academy of Science. (5) Served on the university-wide Energy Task Force that recommended strategic hiring in energy, and then as Associate Director and Executive Council member for the newly formulated Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment that conducted a new strategic hiring of 24 new faculty members in energy research since 2008. (6) Initiated and led the strategic efforts to strengthen energy research infrastructure by working with the Dean of EMS College and the university’s central administration leading to the acquisition of a new building for the EMS Energy Institute in 2009, expanded the space and enhanced facilities. (7) Spearheaded the efforts to enhance the scientific impacts and international visibility of the EMS Energy Institute; the publications from the Institute in refereed journals rose from 26/yr in 2007 to 90/yr in 2016, and the worldwide science citations to EI publications in journals rose from ~700/yr in 2007 to ~3500 cites/yr in 2016 based on the science citation data from Web of Science in Feb 2017. (8) Established several new programs in the Energy Institute since 2007 including Nano-materials Program, Electro-chemical Technologies Program, Coal Science and Technology Program, Energy Economics Program, and Solar Ecology program, in addition to establishing and directing the Clean Fuels and Catalysis Program. (9) Created Research Achievement Award (for faculty and research faculty) and Student Research Achievement Award (for students) with referred publications and their scientific impacts as the main selection criteria; Established service awards for faculty, students and staff in the Institute; Established the Energy Institute Newsletter; Facilitated re-structuring and upgrading of institute website. 1998-Present Distinguished University Professor (since 2010), and Professor of Fuel Science (with tenure since 2003), Associate Professor of Fuel Science in tenure track (1998-2003), Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, Professor of Chemical Engineering (since 2008), Department of Chemical Engineering, the Pennsylvania State University, University Park. # Teaching and advising students in Energy Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Fuel Science, Materials Science and Engineering, and Chemistry; # Initiating and directing original research in the Clean Fuels and Catalysis Program consisting of ~14 people/yr. (graduate students, postdoctoral scholars and research assistants, visiting scholars); Serving the university and the profession. Major accomplishments Include: (1) Established internationally recognized leadership in energy and fuels and catalysis research; proposed and developed novel design concepts for new processes and new materials including: (A) Proposed and developed a novel approach for CO2 capture based on solid “molecular basket” sorbents (MBS) which changed the way of thinking and had major impacts on R&D on CO2 capture worldwide and already demonstrated in a pilot plant in the US, with several other pilot plants in progress in the UK, Korea and China; developed novel MBS-type sorbents for H2S separation from bio- gas and NO2 and SO2 capture from industrial flue gases; published the Top Most Cited Papers worldwide and changed the way of thinking in this research area. (B) Invented a new process and new adsorbents for selective adsorption for removing sulfur (SARS) from liquid hydrocarbon fuels without using hydrogen which has been patented and licensed to industry and already applied to multiple proto-type systems; published the Top Most Cited Papers worldwide and changed the way of thinking in this research area. (C) Developed sulfur-tolerant and carbon-resistant catalysts for low-temperature steam reforming of hydrocarbons which has been patented and licensed to industry and already applied for fabricating proto-type systems for liquid fuels and bio-fuels; published Top Most Cited Papers worldwide in fuel processing for fuel cells including reforming and water gas shift reactions. (D) Invented new processes and catalysts for shape-selective synthesis of value-added polycyclic chemicals via alkylation and isomerization of 2-3 ring aromatics such as 2,6-dimethyl naphthalene, 4,4’-dimethyl biphenyl, trans-decahydronaphthalene, and sym-octahydroanthracene for advanced polymeric materials, some of which have been patented, licensed and demonstrated in pilot scale in industry. (E) Proposed and established tri-reforming process concept and developed effective multi- component catalysts for production of industrially useful synthesis gas with desired H2/CO ratios using C. Song / CV - 3/9/2017 - 2 CO2 and natural gas, which has been applied in R&D worldwide and scaled up in industry in South Korea and China. (F) Discovered novel bimetallic catalysts for oxygen-enhanced water gas shift (OWGS) for efficient H2 production which has been demonstrated in proto-type fuel