Igor Novosselov

Affiliation

University of Washington

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Biography

Dr. Igor Novosselov is a Research Associate Professor at the University of Washington, Mechanical Engineering. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 2006. After that, he worked as an R&D manager in a small company developing instrumentation for biological and chemical aerosol detection. In 2014 he joined the University of Washington Mechanical Engineering Department; he is an adjutant faculty of the Department of Occupational and Environmental Health Sciences and the core faculty at the Institute for Nano-Engineered Systems. Novosselov Research Group conducts multidisciplinary research in supercritical fluids, plasma flow interaction, and aerosol science. Dr. Novosselov has 100+ peer-reviewed publications and patents. He has ten years of experience as a PI in government and industry-sponsored research, including DoD, DHS, NSF, EPA, and NIH. A supercritical fluid (SCF) is any substance at a temperature and pressure above its critical point, where distinct lines of liquid and gas phase transitions are blurred; the unique properties of SCF allow for the development of novel reacting systems from material synthesis and hydrogen production to the destruction of most recalcitrant organic compounds. Prof Novosselov works on (1) the fundamentals of supercritical fluids, practical application, and challenges related to process design and (2) the end-of-life treatment of poly-fluoroalkyls (PFAS), often called “forever chemical” in continuous flow supercritical water oxidation (SCWO) reactor.