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2025.06.05 Keishana’s paper titled “Analysis of Tin Oxide Supported Transition Metal Single-Atom Catalysts for Oxygen Evolution Reaction” just accepted for publication on Journal of Materials Chemistry A journal.

2025.05.30
Kasun gave an invited talk for the Great Plains Catalysis Society (GPCS) monthly webinar series. 

Kasun Gunasooriya - Great plains catalysis society

2025.03.23-37 Kasun attended ACS Spring 2025 Annual Meeting at San-Diego. During the conference, Kasun gave 2 oral presentations and chaired 1 session.

2025.03.02
 Keishana received the prestigious Kokes Award to attend the 29th North American Catalysis Society meeting (NAM29) in Atlanta, GA, June 8 - 13, 2025.

2025.02.16-19 Kasun gave an invited talk and had a productive time interacting with industry and other participants during 5th North American Symposium on Chemical Reaction Engineering (NASCRE-5) in Houston, Texas, USA. 

2025.02.05 Arnold’s paper titled “Insights into Segregation and Aggregation in Dilute Atom Alloy Catalysts Using DFT and Machine Learning” just published in the Catalysis Talents special issue in ChemCatChem journal.

2025.01.17 Kasun is selected as an Early Career Board member of the ACS Applied Energy Materials journal. ACS Applied Energy Materials, belonging to the ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces family of journals, is one of the flagship materials science journals of the American Chemical Society. According to Dr. Yiying Wu (Deputy Editor) and Dr. Xing Yi Ling (Editor-in-Chief), “this recognition reflects your outstanding contributions to your field and your potential as a future leader in the academic community.”

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2024.10.28 Kasun had a great time visiting Oklahoma State University, School of Chemical Engineering for an invited seminar and sharing some of our recent work from the group! Kasun is grateful for the warm welcome and wonderful discussions.

2024.09.04 We had a wonderful time welcoming Prof. Fabio Ribeiro from Purdue University as a University of Oklahoma Vice President for Research & Partnerships (VPRP) Distinguished Lecturer. Prof. Ribeiro gave an insightful lecture on 'Energy Transition - The Challenge and Opportunity of Our Century'. In the photo Prof. Daniel Resasco, Prof. Fabio Ribeiro, Prof. Steven Crossley, and Prof. Dimitrios Papavassiliou.

2024.07.28 We are excited to welcome Ruwani, the third graduate student in the Gunasooriya Lab at OU Sustainable Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering, to the group!

2024.03.26 We had Prof. Umit Ozkan from Ohio State University visiting us today and she gave a wonderful seminar titled “Converting CO2 and H2O to Syn-Gas Through High-temperature Electo-catalysis“.

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2023.11.15-16 Gunasooriya Lab had a productive time attending the American Chemical Society Southwest Regional Meeting (SWRM2023) in Oklahoma City.

Kasun gave 2 talks, one with a focus on challenges and opportunities in catalytic materials discovery for sustainable electrochemical applications and another with a focus on operando computational catalysis. Keishana gave an excellent talk on acid electrolyte effects on oxygen evolution catalysts for green hydrogen production. Arnold did an amazing job delivering a poster with Keishana.

2023.11.05-09 Kasun attended AIChE - American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting 2023 in Orlando. During the conference, Kasun gave 2 oral presentations, a poster presentation and chaired 3 sessions.

Kasun Gunasooriya AIChE

2023.10.16-27 Kasun visited the Petroleum and Petrochemical College at Chulalongkorn University as a visiting professor to teach Heterogeneous Catalysis.
Some of the topics we are discussing in the class:
- Introduction to Catalysis
- Real and Model Catalysts
- Adsorption
- Temperature Program Desorption
- Kinetics and Transition State Theory
- Theory of Catalysis by Metals, Acids, and Oxides
- Mass Transfer Effects in Heterogeneous Catalysis

2023.10.02-03 Kasun represented the University of Oklahoma delegation at the Hydrogen Americas Summit & Exhibition hosted by the Sustainable Energy Council and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) at Ronald Reagan International Trade Center, Washington DC. Kasun appreciates the generous funding from OU-Institute for Resilient Environmental & Energy Systems.
Discussions and panels included:
- Clean Hydrogen Leaders in the Americas: Projects, Policies & Investments
- DOE and Federal Agencies Across the US Government Creating Opportunities for Hydrogen
- Scaling Up Electrolysis for Large Scale End-Use
- Regional to Global Supply Chains: Linking The Americas with Global Partners
- Decarbonising Hydrogen Production with CCUS for the Energy Transition
- Decarbonising Hard to Abate Sectors through Hydrogen Applications
- Hydrogen Mobility Applications & Solutions
- An Outlook for Hydrogen’s Future

Photos: (1) Kasun and Hanping Ding from OU-AME, (2) Secretary Jennifer Granholm, U.S. Department of Energy (3) Sunita Satyapal, Director, Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies, U.S. DOE (4) a panel discussion.

2023.09.11 Thrilled to welcome Arnold to the Gunasooriya Lab at OU Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering!

2023.06.27 We had a wonderful meet-up with Prof. George Huber during his visit to the University of Oklahoma.

2023.04.28-29 Kasun gave an invited talk at the 2023 Hydrogen Conference organized by the University of Oklahoma CHEPS: Carbon-free H2 Production and Storage and Institute for Resilient Environmental & Energy Systems with a theme on “The Hydrogen-Powered Future: Transition to a New Energy Economy”. Kasun’s talk was focused on “Electrochemistry for Sustainable Production of Hydrogen” and Kasun had a wonderful stimulating and refreshing time with students, faculty from OU and beyond, industry partners, economists, social scientists, NSF, USDA, and other participants.

2023.04.15 Kasun served as the lead judge for the 35th annual Undergraduate Research Day organized by the University of Oklahoma Honors College.

2023.04.11 Had a great time interacting with Prof. Cathy Chin from the University of Toronto who was one of our alumni.

2023.01.29 Our group attended the University of Oklahoma Sustainability Forum which had a focus on a collaborative approach to social, technical, industrial, and environmental sustainability.

University of Oklahoma Sustainability Forum

2023.01.17 Thrilled to welcome Keishana, the first graduate student in the Gunasooriya Lab at OU Sustainable Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering, to the group!

-2022-

2022.10.18 We had a wonderful seminar titled “Designing and Interrogating Atomically Dispersed Precious Metal Catalysts” today by Prof. Phil Christopher from UC Santa Barbara. In the photo below: Prof. Steven Crossley, Prof. Phil Christopher, Prof. Daniel Resasco, Prof. Bin Wang

Prof. Steven Crossley, Prof. Phil Christopher, Prof. Daniel Resasco, Prof. Kasun Gunasooriya, Prof. Bin Wang

2022.10.11 We had Prof. Suljo Linic from the University of Michigan visiting us today and he gave a wonderful seminar titled “Electrochemistry of Low-Temperature Fuel Cells: From Kinetics and Spectroscopy to New Materials“. In the photo Prof. Bin Wang, Prof. Suljo Linic, Prof. Daniel Resasco.

Prof. Bin Wang, Prof. Suljo Linic, Prof. Daniel Resasco, Prof. Kasun Gunasooriya

2022.09.13 Kasun’s appointment at OU-CBME is highlighted by the Gallogly College of Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. link

2022.08.14 Kasun is excited to share that he joined the University of Oklahoma as an Assistant Professor of Chemical, Biological, and Materials Engineering starting this fall!

 
Kasun Gunasooriya