Mpourmpakis selected for Young Scientists Award

Giannis (Yanni) Mpourmpakis, assistant professor of chemical and petroleum engineering at the Swanson School of Engineering, has been selected to receive the Bodossaki Foundation Distinguished Young Scientists Award in Chemistry.

The Distinguished Young Scientists Award honors the most outstanding scientists of Greek descent under the age of 40 and is given once every two years. The award will be presented at a ceremony on June 19 in Athens, Greece, where Mpourmpakis will be honored by the Greek president. It also includes a prize of 20,000 euros ($22.447). 

Mpourmpakis’ Computer-Aided Nano and Energy Lab (CANELa) uses theory and computation to investigate the physiochemical properties of nanomaterials with potential applications in diverse nanotechnology areas, ranging from green energy generation and storage to materials engineering and catalysis.