Elizabeth Corson

Elizabeth R. Corson

Fred Kurata Assistant Professor
Chemical and Petroleum Engineering

Email: ecorson@ku.edu

Biography

Elizabeth R. Corson is the Fred Kurata Assistant Professor in the Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department at the University of Kansas. She was a TomKat Center Postdoctoral Fellow in Sustainable Energy in the department of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University. Elizabeth was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley where she completed her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering. During that time she was a visiting researcher at TU Delft in The Netherlands. Elizabeth received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.

  • TomKat Center Postdoctoral Fellowship in Sustainable Energy, Stanford University, 2021–2023
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2015–2020
  • Rising Star in Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019
  • Next Generation Electrochemistry Fellow, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2019
  • Co-Chair, Electrochemical Fundamentals: Faculty Candidate Session, AIChE Annual Meeting, 2024.
  • Discussion Leader, Plasmon-Enhanced Electrochemistry Session, Electrochemistry Gordon Research Conference. 2024.
  • Mentor, AIChE Future Faculty Mentoring Program, 2023.
  • Chair, Electrochemistry Tutorial Session (Invited Talks), AIChE Annual Meeting, 2023.
  • Co-Chair, Electrocatalysis & Photocatalysis V Session, AIChE Annual Meeting, 2023.
  • Chair, Electrochemistry Gordon Research Seminar, 2022.
  • Co-Chair, Electrochemistry Tutorial Session (Invited Talks), AIChE Annual Meeting, 2022.

Undergraduate

  • Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics I, C&PE 221

Graduate

  • Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics, C&PE 721

Education

  • Post Doc: TomKat Center Postdoctoral Fellow in Sustainable Energy, Chemical Engineering, Stanford University. Advisor: Prof. William A. Tarpeh, 2021–2023

  • PhD: University of California, Berkeley, Chemical Engineering, Advisor: Prof. Bryan McCloskey, 2020

  • BS: Illinois Institute of Technology, Chemical Engineering, 2011

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