Wendy Lee Queen

Wendy Lee Queen (born 1981 in South Carolina) is an American chemist and material scientist. Her research interest focus on development design and production of hybrid organic/inorganic materials at the intersection of chemistry, chemical engineering and material sciences. As of 2020 she is a tenure-track assistant professor at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, where she directs the Laboratory for Functional Inorganic Materials.[1]

Wendy Lee Queen
Portrait of Wendy Lee Queen
Born1981 (age 41–42)
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma mater
Known forPlatform for the design of porous materials capable of capturing molecules
Scientific career
InstitutionsLaboratory for Functional Inorganic Materials at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Websitehttps://www.epfl.ch/labs/lfim/

Career

Queen studied chemistry and mathematics at Lander University in Greenwood, South Carolina, USA. She then pursued a PhD in inorganic chemistry at Clemson University under the mentorship of Shiou-Jyh Hwu. In 2009 she joined the Center for Neutron Research at National Institute of Standards and Technology. From 2011 to 2012 she was a visiting scholar in laboratory of Jeffrey R. Long[2] at University of California Berkeley before returning to the Center for Neutron Research as a postdoctoral fellow with Craig Brown.[3][4]

In the position of a project scientist, Queen joined the Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 2012. Here she helped build a new user program focused on the synthesis and characterization of porous adsorbents. During her time there she worked on a number of projects focused on the use of polymer-metal-organic frameworks (MOF) or MOF-based membranes for a variety of globally relevant gas separations such as carbon dioxide capture from flue gas and water capture from air.[5][6]

In 2015, she was nominated as tenure-track assistant professor at Department of Chemical Engineering of École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. Her Laboratory for Functional Inorganic Materials is based at the EPFL Valais Wallis campus in Sion, Switzerland.[7][8]

Research

Queen's research is focused on the synthesis and characterization of novel porous adsorbents, namely metal-organic frameworks, and their corresponding composites, which are of interest in a number of host-guest applications.[9] Her research aims at contributing knowledge towards solving globally relevant problems, like reducing energy consumption,[10] cutting CO2 emissions,[11][12] water purification,[13] the extraction of valuable commodities from waste,[14][15] and chemical conversion processes.[16][17]

Queen became known to a wider audience through her TEDx Talk on "Cut Carbon to Save Lives",[18] her Aeon article on "Could mining gold from waste reduce its great cost?",[19] and multiple appearances in the news outlets.[20][21][22][23][24]

Distinctions

In 2020, Queen was nominated as one of Chemical & Engineering News's “Talented 12”.[25] She is a member of the board of Scientific Advisors at novoMOF.[26]

References
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  2. "Group Alumni | The Long Group". alchemy.cchem.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-10.
  3. craig.brown@nist.gov (2019-05-10). "Craig Brown CV". NIST. Retrieved 2020-08-10.
  4. Wendy, Lee Queen (January 2017). "Curriculum Vitae of Professor Wendy L. Queen" (PDF).
  5. "New Carbon Capture Membrane Creates CO2 Highways". foundry.lbl.gov. Retrieved 2020-08-10.
  6. Su, Norman C.; Sun, Daniel T.; Beavers, Christine M.; Britt, David K.; Queen, Wendy L.; Urban, Jeffrey J. (2016-03-09). "Enhanced permeation arising from dual transport pathways in hybrid polymer–MOF membranes". Energy & Environmental Science. 9 (3): 922–931. doi:10.1039/C5EE02660A. ISSN 1754-5706.
  7. "LFIM". www.epfl.ch. Retrieved 2020-09-11.
  8. Verde, Mariachiara (2015-09-30). "SNSF Assistant Professor Energy Grant awarded to Prof. Wendy Queen". EPFL News.
  9. Bloch, E. D.; Queen, W. L.; Krishna, R.; Zadrozny, J. M.; Brown, C. M.; Long, J. R. (2012-03-30). "Hydrocarbon Separations in a Metal-Organic Framework with Open Iron(II) Coordination Sites". Science. 335 (6076): 1606–1610. Bibcode:2012Sci...335.1606B. doi:10.1126/science.1217544. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 22461607. S2CID 30717494.
  10. Geier, Stephen J.; Mason, Jarad A.; Bloch, Eric D.; Queen, Wendy L.; Hudson, Matthew R.; Brown, Craig M.; Long, Jeffrey R. (2013). "Selective adsorption of ethylene over ethane and propylene over propane in the metal–organic frameworks M2(dobdc) (M = Mg, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Zn)". Chemical Science. 4 (5): 2054. doi:10.1039/c3sc00032j. ISSN 2041-6520.
  11. Bloch, Eric D.; Murray, Leslie J.; Queen, Wendy L.; Chavan, Sachin; Maximoff, Sergey N.; Bigi, Julian P.; Krishna, Rajamani; Peterson, Vanessa K.; Grandjean, Fernande; Long, Gary J.; Smit, Berend (2011-09-21). "Selective Binding of O2 over N2 in a Redox–Active Metal–Organic Framework with Open Iron(II) Coordination Sites". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 133 (37): 14814–14822. doi:10.1021/ja205976v. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 21830751.
  12. Hudson, Matthew R.; Queen, Wendy L.; Mason, Jarad A.; Fickel, Dustin W.; Lobo, Raul F.; Brown, Craig M. (2012-01-12). "Unconventional, Highly Selective CO 2 Adsorption in Zeolite SSZ-13". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 134 (4): 1970–1973. doi:10.1021/ja210580b. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 22235866.
  13. Furukawa, Hiroyasu; Gándara, Felipe; Zhang, Yue-Biao; Jiang, Juncong; Queen, Wendy L.; Hudson, Matthew R.; Yaghi, Omar M. (2014-03-19). "Water Adsorption in Porous Metal–Organic Frameworks and Related Materials". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 136 (11): 4369–4381. doi:10.1021/ja500330a. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 24588307. S2CID 207107770.
  14. Sun, Daniel T.; Gasilova, Natalia; Yang, Shuliang; Oveisi, Emad; Queen, Wendy L. (2018-12-05). "Rapid, Selective Extraction of Trace Amounts of Gold from Complex Water Mixtures with a Metal–Organic Framework (MOF)/Polymer Composite". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140 (48): 16697–16703. doi:10.1021/jacs.8b09555. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 30395464.
  15. Sun, Daniel T.; Peng, Li; Reeder, Washington S.; Moosavi, Seyed Mohamad; Tiana, Davide; Britt, David K.; Oveisi, Emad; Queen, Wendy L. (2018-03-28). "Rapid, Selective Heavy Metal Removal from Water by a Metal–Organic Framework/Polydopamine Composite". ACS Central Science. 4 (3): 349–356. doi:10.1021/acscentsci.7b00605. ISSN 2374-7943. PMC 879484. PMID 29632880.
  16. Xiao, Dianne J.; Bloch, Eric D.; Mason, Jarad A.; Queen, Wendy L.; Hudson, Matthew R.; Planas, Nora; Borycz, Joshua; Dzubak, Allison L.; Verma, Pragya; Lee, Kyuho; Bonino, Francesca (2014-05-18). "Oxidation of ethane to ethanol by N 2 O in a metal–organic framework with coordinatively unsaturated iron( II ) sites". Nature Chemistry. 6 (7): 590–595. Bibcode:2014NatCh...6..590X. doi:10.1038/nchem.1956. hdl:2318/153276. ISSN 1755-4349. OSTI 1458980. PMID 24950328.
  17. Karve, Vikram V.; Sun, Daniel T.; Trukhina, Olga; Yang, Shuliang; Oveisi, Emad; Luterbacher, Jeremy; Queen, Wendy L. (2020). "Efficient reductive amination of HMF with well dispersed Pd nanoparticles immobilized in a porous MOF/polymer composite". Green Chemistry. 22 (2): 368–378. doi:10.1039/C9GC03140E. ISSN 1463-9262. S2CID 213412438.
  18. Queen, Wendy L., Cut carbon to save lives, retrieved 2020-08-10
  19. "Could mining gold from waste reduce its great cost? – Wendy Lee Queen & Mirko Bischofberger | Aeon Ideas". Aeon. Retrieved 2020-08-10.
  20. Gabbud, Jean-Yves (2018-03-15). "Un matériau révolutionnaire qui dépollue l'eau développé en Valais". Retrieved 2020-08-10.
  21. "Is There a Gold Mine in Electronic Waste?". Mind Matters. 2020-01-23. Retrieved 2020-08-10.
  22. Senese, Gioia (2020-08-01). "Diese Forscherin rettet die Erde: CO2 aus der Luft filtern". Blick. Retrieved 2020-08-10.
  23. "Filtering out toxic chromium from water". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 2020-08-10.
  24. "The Galactic Chloé Show: a new star in the EPFL universe". 2020-12-28. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  25. "C&EN's Talented 12: Wendy Lee Queen". Chemical & Engineering News. Retrieved 2020-09-11.
  26. "novoMOF | Company". novoMOF. Retrieved 2020-09-11.

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