Kerry M. Dooley

Kerry M. Dooley is the BASF Professor in the Cain Department of Chemical Engineering and an Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at Louisiana State University. He was educated at Tulane University (B.S., ChE) and, after a short stint as a process engineer for DuPont, he received his Ph.D. in 1983 from the University of Delaware. His research is concentrated in heterogeneous catalysis (especially that by strong acids, zeolites and mixed metal oxides), processing of inorganic materials, and reactor design. He has published more than 125 combined articles, patents, and book chapters, edited 10 books, consulted for nine different companies, and performed contract research for 12 others. He was a Fulbright fellow at the University of Twente in the Netherlands in 1991.

Through the course of his career, he has taught 18 different classes at both the undergraduate and graduate level and developed 15 different instructional laboratory experiments at the undergraduate level.