Shelley Minteer

Professor Shelley Minteer is the Center Director. She is an internationally recognized expert in the area of electrocatalysis and has done extensive work in electrocatalyst discovery and engineering for multi-catalytic cascades and hybrid catalytic cascades. Her group has expertise in all classes of electrocatalysts from metals to enzymes to organocatalysts, as well as novel scaffolding techniques for immobilizing and stabilizing mediators and electrocatalysts on electrode surfaces. Her group also specializes in studying intermediate and product formation in electrochemical cells via GC-MS, HPLC, and infrared studies. She received her Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from University of Iowa in 2000 and moved onto a faculty position in the Chemistry Department at Saint Louis University, before moving to University of Utah in 2011. She is a USTAR Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering at University of Utah and has authored more than 250 journal publications and more than 350 presentations at scientific conferences in the US and internationally. She was the Technical Editor for the Journal of the Electrochemical Society from 2013-2016, an Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Chemical Society from 2016 - 2020, the current Past-President of the Society of Electroanalytical Chemistry, and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of ACS Au and the Dale and Susan Poulter Endowed Chair of Biological Chemistry and Associate Chair of Chemistry. She has won numerous awards including the Luigi Galvani Prize of the Bioelectrochemical Society, the Tajima Prize of the International Society of Electrochemistry, Fellow of the Electrochemical Society, St. Louis Award of the American Chemical Society, and the Young Investigator Award of the Society of Electroanalytical Chemistry. She is working to help develop electroanalytical tools for evaluating mechanisms, while also developing catalyst modified electrodes for improving selectivity and reactivity of electrosynthesis reactions.