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Victor is the inventor of Catilin technologies. He has served on the Board of Directors of Catilin since 2007.. Victor is currently a professor in the Department of Chemistry at Iowa State University and the assistant director of the Chemical and Biological Sciences Program at the U.S. DOE Ames Laboratory. His research centers on the synthesis of mesoporous heterogeneous catalysts for various reactions, such as cooperative catalysis, carbonyl activation, biodiesel production, and other biorenewable applications. His group also specializes in the design of functional nanoporous materials for biotechnological and biomedical applications, such as biosensor design, drug delivery, and gene transfection. Victor has received a number of awards for his work, including a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2002, a LAS award for Early Achievement in Research/Artistic Creativity in 2004 at Iowa State University, and an Outstanding Technology Development award of the U.S. Federal Laboratory Consortium in 2005. He was a Skaggs postdoctoral fellow at the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California from 1997 to 1999. Victor serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Advanced Functional Materials, WILEY-VCH. He received his Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania in the end of 1996. | 