Jason Hicks

Research Interests

Professor Hick's research group is primarily focused in the area of heterogeneous catalysis. They seek to understand how the properties and structures of catalysts affect activity and selectivity for specific reactions, coupling their experimental results with detailed characterization of the heterogeneous catalysts to develop relationships between the catalyst structure and the resulting catalytic activity. They also study catalyst stability at reaction conditions, as fundamental understanding of stability is required for advanced catalyst development and for process commercialization.