J. Ilja Siepmann is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor, a Distinguished Teaching Professor, and member of the graduate faculties in chemistry, chemical physics, chemical engineering, and materials science at the University of Minnesota. He is also the director of the DOE-funded Nanoporous Materials Genome Center and an associate editor for the Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data. He received his doctorate in chemistry from the University of Cambridge. Before joining the University of Minnesota in 1994, he carried out postdoctoral research at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, the Royal/Shell Laboratory in Amsterdam, and the University of Pennsylvania’s Laboratory for the Research on the Structure of Matter. His scientific interests are focused on particle-based simulations of complex chemical systems, including the prediction of phase, sorption, and reaction equilibria and of thermophysical properties, the understanding of retention in chromatography, and the investigation of microheterogeneous fluids and nucleation phenomena.
Education
Ph.D. University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), 1991
B.S. (equivalent), University of Freiburg (Germany), 1987
Professional Background
- Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data, 2021 - present
- Director, DOE Nanoporous Materials Genome Center, 2014 – 2023
- Merck Professor of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 2012 – 2017
- Vice Chair, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 2010 – 2015
- Distinguished Teaching Professor, University of Minnesota, 2010 – present
- Distinguished McKnight University Professor, University of Minnesota, 2006 – present
- Sabbatical Fellow, Division of Chemistry and Materials Science, Lawrence Livermore Natlional Laboratory, 2003 – 2004
- Professor, Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 2003 – present
- Associate Professor, Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 2000 – 2003
- Assistant Professor, Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 1994 - 2000
- Graduate Faculty in Chemical Physics, Chemical Engineering, and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 1994 – present; in Data Science, 2022 - present
Scientific & Professional Societies
American Chemical Society
American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Fellow
American Physical Society, Fellow
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Recent News
Distinguished McKnight University Professor Ilja Siepmann honored with John M. Prausnitz Award
