{"id":879,"date":"2010-04-07T00:40:10","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T00:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/cmbe-welcomes-george-bollas.php"},"modified":"2025-01-31T12:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T17:46:12","slug":"cmbewelcomesgb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2010\/04\/cmbewelcomesgb\/","title":{"rendered":"CMBE Welcomes George Bollas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.engr.uconn.edu\/images\/ecomm04042010\/bollas2.jpg\" alt=\"bollas photo\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/>George Bollas joined the  Chemical, Materials &amp; Biomolecular Engineering Department in January  2010, bringing a wealth of expertise in energy technologies.  His  position is associated with the Eminent Faculty Initiative in  Sustainable Energy.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Bollas received his Ph.D. and Dipl. in chemical engineering from  the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 2006 and 2000,  respectively.  From 2006-09, he conducted research as a post-doctoral  research associate at MIT, where his efforts centered upon the design of  a hybrid dynamic\/steady-state modeling, simulation and optimization  environment for nuclear hydrogen production systems, and on the  development of accurate thermodynamic property methods for the  description of phase and reaction equilibria in thermochemical reactors.   Dr. Bollas has also collaborated with Aspen Technology Inc. in the  development of improved electrolyte thermodynamic models.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Bollas is performing research related to the design, modeling and  optimization of processes that address the growing energy crisis, such  as those of conventional\/coal\/biomass refineries and hydrogen production  plants.  His research interests involve the dynamic simulation of  energy-related processes, lumped reaction kinetics modeling, property  models development, electrolyte thermodynamics and global optimization  for phase equilibria.  He has published 12 scholarly journal papers and  presented his work in more than 25 peer-reviewed international  conferences. In addition, he is a member of the Sigma XI Scientific  Society, AIChE and ACS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Bollas joined the Chemical, Materials &amp; Biomolecular Engineering Department in January 2010, bringing a wealth of expertise in energy technologies. His position is associated with the Eminent Faculty Initiative in Sustainable Energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":80566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2110],"class_list":["post-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 22:41:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225141,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions\/225141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/80566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=879"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}