MARK E. BUSSELL
Professor
Physical Chemistry

Department of Chemistry Western Washington University Bellingham, WA 98225-9150 Office: CB445 Lab: CB450 Tel: (360) 650-3145 Fax: (360) 650-2826 mark.bussell@wwu.edu

Course Materials Research Publications

Education
B.A. Reed College, 1983.
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1988.
NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellow, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Paris, 1988-89.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Washington, 1990.
 

Sabbatical Positions

Guest Professor, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Zurich), 1997-1998.

Visiting Professor, Tufts University (Dept. of Chemical Engineering), March-June 2005.

Honors and Awards
NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1988.
Henry Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award, 1995.
Paul J. Olscamp Outstanding Research Award, 2000.
Camille & Henry Dreyfus Scholar/Fellow Award, 2001.

Editorial Board, Catalysis Letters, 2004-present.

Editorial Board, Topics in Catalysis, 2005-present.

Program Advisory Committee, Research Corporation, July 2005-present.

Research Interests
My research interests are in the areas of surface and materials chemistry, with an emphasis on the development of new heterogeneous catalysts for use in environmentally important chemical processes. Current projects are focused on hydrotreating catalysis,  the hydrodesulfurization (HDS) process in particular, and hydrogen generation from fossil fuels. Hydrodesulfurization is an industrial process in which sulfur is selectively removed from organosulfur compounds present in fossil fuels. Catalyst systems currently under investigation for the HDS process include oxide-supported phosphides.  In the area of hydrogen generation, we are investigating gold-iron oxide catalysts for the water-gas shift process.

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