Prof. Friederike C. Jentoft studied Chemistry at Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen and at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, where she earned her Dr. rer. nat. (1994) under the guidance of Helmut Knözinger. After working as a postgraduate researcher in Bruce Gates’ group at the University of California in Davis, she led a research group in the Department of Inorganic Chemistry for 12 years at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin. In 2008, she assumed a faculty position at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, where she was named Anadarko Petroleum Corporation Presidential Professor in 2014. Since 2015, she has been Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Jentoft received a Young Scientists Prize from the International Association of Catalysis Societies (2000), the Excellence in Catalysis Award from the Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York (2018), and a Lady Davis Fellowship from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (2021). She is a Fellow of the AIChE. From 2009 to 2015, she served as an editor of Advances in Catalysis.

Jentoft’s research focuses on acid-base catalysis and redox chemistry of Group V-VII transition metals. Her laboratory applies reaction analysis and kinetics, in situ spectroscopy, and calorimetry to understand surface reactions and improve catalysts and processes. It is our pleasure to welcome Prof. Jenthoft to PodCAT!