Recent Advances in Electrochemical Promotion of Catalysis

Prof. Constantinos (Costas) G. Vayenas is Professor Emeritus at the University of Patras, Greece and Series Editor of the Springer book series Modern Aspects of Electrochemistry Book. Born in Athens in 1950, he studied Chemical Engineering at the NTU, Athens, 1968-1973, received his PhD from the University of Rochester, NY, (1976), taught as Assistant Professor at Yale University (1976-77), as Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (???, 1977-82) and returned voluntarily to Greece as Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Patras (1982). He has been a Visiting Professor at Yale, EPFL (Lausanne) and the University of Lyon. His research is focused in the areas of catalysis, electrochemistry and mathematical modeling of physicochemical and elementary particle phenomena. He is the author of some 270 refereed publications in international Journals, including Science and Nature, has coauthored the books “Electrochemical Activation of Catalysis: Promotion, Electrochemical Promotion and Metal-Support Interactions”, Kluwer/Plenum Press, 2001, and “Gravity, special relativity and the strong force: A Bohr-Einstein-de Broglie model for the formation of hadrons”, Springer 2012. He is a Fellow of the ISE (2005), full member of the Academy of Athens (2010) and has received an Honorary PhD degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2015). In 2017 he was the first Greek scientist to be elected as International member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) of the USA.