Anne M. Gaffney received her BA in Chemistry and Mathematics from Mount Holyoke College in 1976 and her IPh.D. in Physical Organic Chemistry in 1981. She has been working it the chemical industry for nearly 30 years in areas of process chemistry, catalysis, selective oxidation, “green chemistry”, clean energy and sustainability.
She recently retired from Lummus Technology in March 2010 where she held the position of VP of Technology and was responsible for leading the commercialization of new catalysts and improved metathesis processing of olefins. At LT Anne also developed a new alkylation process called AlkyClean with a “green” heterogeneous catalyst; this process was acknowledged with the 2009 ACS Award for Affordable Green Chemistry. Prior to LT, Anne was a Senior Research Fellow where she worked on developing new catalysts and processes for the selective oxidation of hydrocarbons.
Anne has over 200 patents and patent applications, over 80 publications and has given close to 90 seminars. She was selected as an ACS Fellow in 2010 and received the ACS Distinguished Service Award in Petroleum Chemistry, also in 2010. She co-founded the Catalysis Division of ACS in 2009.
Since her retirement from LT, Anne has founded AMG Chemistry and Catalysis Consulting, LLC, co-founded the Langmuir Research Institute, and has consulted for various companies, including Air Liquide, Anellotech and NanoSelect. In January 2011 Anne became the R&D Director of Specialty Materials at Invista.
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