Prof. Arturo Hernández-Maldonado, PhD

Education
Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2004
M.Eng., University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, 1997
B.Sc., University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, 1995

Professional Appointments
July 2019 – Present, Director of the NSF UPR Center for the Advancement of Wearable Technologies
July 2010 – Present, Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez
July 2006 – June 2010, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez
July 2004 – June 2006, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez
September 2009 – Present, Honorary Fellow – Chemical and Biological Engineering Department University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
July 2006 – August 2009, Honorary Fellow – Material Science and Engineering Department University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Madison, WI
August 2000 – July 2004, Research Assistant, Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
January 1997 – June 2000, Chemical Engineering Lecturer, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez
June 1999 – June 2000, Chemical Engineering Unit Operations Laboratory Director, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez

Honors and Awards
2022 Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2020 James Y. Oldshue Lecture Award by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) & Interamerican Confederation of Chemical Engineering
2016 Great Minds in STEM HENAAC Professional Achievement Award
2016 Aerospace Startups Conference Honorific Mention Award
2013 and 2014 UPRM College of Engineering Distinguished Researcher
2006 – 2012 NSF-CAREER Award
2004 – 2006, 2007 – 2008, 2010 – 2011, 2012 -2014, and 2017-2019 Chemical Engineering Outstanding Professor
2004 NSF-EPSCoR Faculty Start-Up Award
2004 University of Michigan, College of Engineering Graduate Distinguished Achievement Award
2003 AIChE Separations Division Graduate Student Research Award in Adsorption and Ion Exchange – American Institute of Chemical Engineers/Praxair
2003 ScholarPOWER Academic Award – University of Michigan/General Motors Corporation
2001 GEM Ph.D. Fellowship – National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science
2000 Rackham/NSF Fellowship – University of Michigan/National Science Foundation

Synergistic Activities
• Co-editor in-chief of the Journal of Hazardous Materials Letters (2020 – present)
• Editor for the Journal of Hazardous Materials (2020 – present)
• Coordinator and president of the first ever and subsequent national symposia on the Occurrence, Detection, Fate, and Removal of Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Products in Potable Water Sources as part of the American Chemical Society National Meetings (2011 – 2018)

Research and Academic Interests
Research Interests: Synthesis and Characterization of Nanoporous Materials, Zeolites, Pillared Coordination Polymers, Metal-Organic Frameworks, Hierarchical Nanoporous Composites, Advanced Adsorption Applications, Removal of Contaminants of Emerging Concern from Water via Adsorption, Trace Carbon Dioxide Removal for Life Support Systems in Aerospace Applications, Ammonia Adsorption at High Temperature and Pressure
Teaching Interests: Transport Phenomena, Adsorption Engineering.

Current ChemE Course Lectures  (Fall 2023)
InQu 4002 – Mass Transfer Operations