Education
  • Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, U.S.A., 1994
  • M.S., University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, U.S.A., 1992
  • B.S., University of Missouri-Columbia, Missouri, U.S.A., 1990

Dr. Roberts is the Dean of the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering.

Research Interests

  • Nanomaterials Synthesis, Separation and Processing in Tunable Solvent Systems
  • Gas-to-Liquids Processes
  • Green Chemistry Approaches to Nanomaterials Synthesis 
  • Supercritical Fluid Technologies
  • Gas-Expanded Liquids
  • Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis of Liquid Fuels
  • Nanoscale Catalysis
  • Reactions in Tunable Solvent Systems
  • High Pressure Thermodynamics

Consortium for the Molecular Engineering of Dispersant Systems (C-MEDS Consortium, Year 2-4 Consortia Grants (RFP-I), Role: Co-Principal Investigator, Task Co-Lead)