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About the Contributors ix

interactions between water-treatment membranes and organic and inor-
ganic materials with the purpose of reducing fouling. Upon completion
of his Ph.D. he completed a two-year postdoctoral research assignment
at Rice University where he studied the behavior of fullerene nanoma-
terials in environmental systems. His areas of research focus on char-
acterizing surfaces to predict and understand the impact of materials
in environmental processes.

Michael Hoffmann, Ph.D., received a B.A. in chemistry from
Northwestern University and a Ph.D. in chemical kinetics from Brown
University. In 1973, he was awarded an NIH postdoctoral training fel-
lowship in Environmental Engineering Science at the California Institute
of Technology. From 1975 to 1980, he was member of the faculty at the
University of Minnesota and since 1980 a member of the faculty at
Caltech (Engineering and Applied Science). Dr. Hoffmann has published
more than 220 peer-reviewed professional papers and is the holder of
seven patents. In 2001, Dr. Hoffmann was presented with the American
Chemical Society Award for Creative Advances in Environmental Science
and Technology and received the Jack E. McKee Medal for Groundwater
Protection by the Water Environment Federation in October 2003.

Ernest (Matt) Hotze is a doctoral candidate at Duke University where
he is performing research on Reactive Oxygen Production by nanopar-
ticles. He holds an M.S. in Environmental Engineering from Rice
University and a B.S. in Chemistry from Notre Dame.

Amy Myers Jaffe is the Wallace S. Wilson Fellow in Energy Studies
at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy and associate direc-
tor of the Rice University energy program. Her research focuses on the
subject of oil geopolitics, strategic energy policy including energy science
policy and energy economics. Ms. Jaffe is widely published in academic
journals and numerous book volumes and served as coeditor of Energy
in the Caspian Region: Present and Future (Palgrave, 2002) and Natural
Gas and Geopolitics: From 1970 to 2040 (Cambridge University Press,
2006). She served as a member of the reconstruction and economy work-
ing group of the Baker/Hamilton Iraq Study Group, and as project direc-
tor for the Baker Institute/Council on Foreign Relations task force on
Strategic Energy Policy.

Dr. Jean-Pierre Jolivet is a professor at the Université Pierre et Marie
Curie (Paris 6), in Paris, France, where he teaches inorganic chemistry.
His research activities are focused on the synthesis of metal and metal
oxide nanoparticles with controlled characteristics (crystalline struc-
ture, morphology, size, and dispersion state in various solid or liquid
media) for various application areas such as optics, electrochemistry,