School of Engineering

Arthur Fontijn
Research Professor
http://www.rpi.edu/~fontia

Department Affiliation:

Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Education:

Ph.D., University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Natural Sciences

M.S., University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Physical Chemistry

B.S., University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Physics and Chemistry

Background:

Professor Fontijn is Director of the High-Temperature Reaction Kinetics Laboratory, housed in the Chemical Engineering Building, where his graduate students are located. He earned his degrees from the University of Amsterdam. His undergraduate work was in Physics and Chemistry and thereafter he specialized in Physical Chemistry.

He was an NRC of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow in Radiation Chemistry at the University of Saskatchewan, a Research Associate in the Upper Atmosphere Chemistry Research Group at McGill University, and was employed by AeroChem Research Laboratories, Inc., Princeton, NJ, initially as Physical Chemist, thereafter as Head of the Reaction Kinetics Group and Vice-President. He joined Rensselaer in 1981. He has held visiting appointments at: the Chemistry Department of Queen Mary College, London University, England; CSIRO, Sydney, Australia; the Photophysics and Photochemistry Laboratory of the University of Bordeaux, France; the Oxford University Centre for Applied Kinetics, England.

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Research Interests:

Dr. Fontijn's research activities have been predominantly in the kinetics of atom and free-radical reactions in the gas phase. His principal recent activities and current interests are in combustion chemistry, gaseous metal species reactions, high-temperature reactions, and kinetic spectrometry.