Brian Rosen

Biography

Dr. Brian Rosen is a senior lecturer in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and founder of the department’s Energy Materials Laboratory. The laboratory focuses on the development of novel catalytic materials for the conversion and utilization of methane, carbon dioxide and oxygen for use in GTL processing, fuel cells, and batteries. Dr. Rosen received his Bachelors of Chemical Engineering (Degree with Distinction) from the University of Delaware. His doctoral work was at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the advisement of Prof. Richard Masel and Prof. Paul Kenis where he focused on low overpotential CO2 conversion to CO utilizing ionic liquid electrolytes. This work was published in 2011 in Science, and in 2013 in Nature Communications as well as other topical journals such as the Journal of Physical Chemistry, and the Electrochemical Society. Dr. Rosen has co-authored over 10 patents describing the use of this novel co-catalyst system, utilizing both an adsorbed ionic liquid layer and a metal nanoparticle electrode. This research has also brought about the creation of a start-up company Dioxide Materials (Champaign, IL, USA) whose goal is the development of CO2 electrolyzers that utilize this new chemistry. Dr. Rosen was named as U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Fellow (DOE-SCGF) in 2010. Dr. Rosen made Aliyah in 2013 where he joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering as a post doctorate under the advisement of Prof. Noam Eliaz (MatSci) and Prof. Emeritus Eliezer Gileadi (Chemistry). He was awarded both the J. William Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship as well at the TAU Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Postdoctoral fellowship. His postdoctoral work investigated the use of pulse electrodeposition for the fabrication of Ni-Re alloys for aerospace and high-temperature applications. As a post doctorate, he was awarded the Colton-Nadal grant to investigate the use of Ni-Re alloys as materials for methane dry reforming catalysts in an effort to advance gas-to-liquid (GTL) technology. *Senior lecturer is the equivalent academic rank to Assistant Professor in western universities.

Research Interest

Development of novel catalytic materials for the conversion and utilization of methane, carbon dioxide and oxygen for use in GTL processing, fuel cells, and batteries.