Elizabeth Bickel Rogers
Biography
Elizabeth Bickel Rogers received her B.S. degree with distinction in chemical engineering from Tennessee Tech University in 2017. She earned her Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Purdue University in 2022 under the supervision of professor Rajamani Gounder. At Purdue, her research focused on the synthesis of zeolite materials with well-defined properties and their application as catalysts for upgrading light alkenes. From 2023 to 2025, she was a postdoctoral scholar in professor Aditya Bhan's research group in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota where she studied low temperature CO2 and CO hydrogenation over transition metal carbide catalysts. At the U. of I., her research aims to develop new thermocatalytic routes and catalytic materials for fuel and chemicals production from diverse carbon feedstocks.
Education
- Post-doctoral scholar, University of Minnesota, 2023-2025
- Ph.D., Purdue University, 2022
- B.S., Tennessee Tech University, 2017
Academic Positions
- Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2025-
Research Statement
Thermocatalytic processes underly the production of fuels and chemicals vital for modern society and will play a pivotal role in advancing new energy technologies and enabling diversified energy sources. My research group will seek to design new catalytic materials and develop new reaction strategies for producing fuels and chemicals from diverse carbon feedstocks, including waste and natural resources. We will combine synthesis of new and well-defined catalytic materials with characterization and kinetic studies to discern reaction pathways and mechanisms, and their connections to reaction conditions and catalyst properties, with the goal of enabling judicious design of energy-efficient, applied catalytic processes.