Marco Castaldi has a PhD in Chemical Engineering from UCLA with minors in Astrophysics and Advanced Theoretical Physics. He has collaborated with researchers from Lawrence Livermore, Sandia, Brookhaven and Argonne National Laboratories on wide ranging research from combustion modeling to catalytic reactor development to hydrate dissociation studies. He has seven patents and two pending applications in the areas of catalysis and combustion. Marco has authored over 100 peer reviewed publications. He worked in the industry for 10 years after his PhD, then at Columbia’s Earth & Environmental Engineering Department prior to his arrival at City College in the Fall 2012. He has received the SEAS Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award, is a Fellow of The National Academy of Engineering, Frontiers of Engineering Education, a Fulbright Global Fellow and Technical Fellow of ASME and AIChE.