Liang-Shih Fan 范良士 Election Year 2006 The Ohio State University
151 W Woodruff Ave
Room 302/Chemical Bio-Mile
Columbus, OH 43210, U.S.A. Tel: (614) 688-3262 / Fax: (614) 292-3769
Current Positions
Distinguished University Professor, and C. John Easton Professor in Engineering, Chemical Engineering Dept., The Ohio State University
Education
B.S., Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University (1970)
Department of Chemical Engineering, West Virginia University, M.S.(1973), Ph. D.(1975)
M.S., Department of Statistics, Kansas State University (1978)
Professional Experience
Department of Chemical Engineering, Ohio State University(1978-): Distinguished University Professor(1996-) and Chair of the Department(1994-2003); C. John Easton Professor (2004—)
Research Engineer, Amoco (1979.06-09)
Research Scientist, Argonne National Lab. (1980.06-09)
Research Scientist, U.S. Department of Energy, USA (1982.06-08;1983.06-08)
Director, Center on Fine Particle Technology (1997—)
Editor or Editorial Board:AIChE Journal (1994-2014); International Journal of Multiphase Flow (1997-2009); Powder Technology (1991—); Elsevier Science Handbook series on Particle Technology (1998-2004); e-Fluid (2001—); Journal of Chinese Institute of Chemical Engineers (2001-2006)
Member:U.S. National Academy of Engineering ; Fellow: American Chemical Society (ACS); American Association for the Advancement of Science; American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
Consultant:Battelle Memorial Institute; BP/Amoco; Union Carbide/Dow; Exxon/Mobil; Shell; UOP; DuPont and other 20 companies
Specialties
Chemistry, Engineering Sciences, Chemical Engineering
Awards and Honors
Academician, Academia Sinica, R.O.C. (2006)
Member, U.S. National Academy of Engineering (2001)
Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Engineering (2009)
Foreign Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE)(2013)
Foreign Fellow, Mexican Academy of Sciences (2005)
Fellow, National Academy of Inventors (2013)
Foreign Member, Indian National Academy of Engineering (2019)
Foreign Member, ,Canadian Academy of Engineering (2023)
Warren K. Lewis Award in Chemical Engineering Education AIChE (2022)
Distinguished Researcher Award, Energy and Fuels Division, American Chemical Society (2021)
R.H. Wilhelm Award in Chemical Reaction Engineering, American Institute of Chemical Engineers(AIChE) (2013)
Named as one of the "One Hundred Engineers in the Modern Era" by the AIChE (2008)
E. V. Murphree Award in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, American Chemical Society (2006)
The 67th Institute Lecture of AIChE (2014)
Joseph Sullivant Medal of the Ohio State University (2005)
Doctorate Honoris Causa, Instituto de Estudios Superiores en Enginieria, Puebla, Mexico (2002)
Malcolm E. Pruitt Award, US Council of Chemical Research (2000)
Alpha Chi Sigma Award for Chemical Engineering Research, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (1996)
Union Carbide Lectureship Award, American Society of Engineering Education Chemical Engineering Division (1999)
Thomas Baron Award in Fluid-Particle System from Particle Technology Forum of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (1994)
Institution Eminent Speaker Award, the Institution of Engineers, Australia (1994)
Fluidization Lectureship Award, American Chemical Society (1994)
Alexander von Humboldt Research Award for U.S. Senior Scientists (1993)
AIChE Partical Technology Forum Fluidized Processing Recognition Award (1995)
35 Named/ Distinguished Academic Lectureship and 80 Plenary Lecture of International Conferences