{"id":1995,"date":"2017-01-25T12:45:57","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T18:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/nimet\/?page_id=1995"},"modified":"2026-03-12T10:28:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:28:46","slug":"helen-hagelin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/nimet\/people-2\/coe\/helen-hagelin\/","title":{"rendered":"Helena Hagelin-Weaver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/nimet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/227\/2017\/01\/Helena-Hagelin-Weaver.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1997 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/nimet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/227\/2017\/01\/Helena-Hagelin-Weaver.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"262\" \/><\/a>Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering<br \/>\n<\/strong>PhD, Royal Institute of Technology<br \/>\nChemistry<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.che.ufl.edu\/\">Department of Chemical Engineering<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/\">Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our main research focus is on environmentally friendly, energy-related reactions. Our projects include catalyst development for hydrogen production via catalytic steam reforming of methanol (for proton exchange membrane, or PEM, fuel cell applications), C-H activation and C-C coupling of aromatic compounds, oxidative coupling of methane (methane to higher-value chemicals), Fischer-Tropsch synthesis of diesel fuel from biomass-derived synthesis gas (CO + H<sub>2<\/sub>), and thermochemical water-splitting using solar energy. We are also working on catalyst characterization for direct methanol fuel cells.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Helena_Weaver\">Helena Hagelin-Weaver&#8217;s\u00a0Publications<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Homepage:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.che.ufl.edu\/faculty\/hagelin\/\">Helena Hagelin-Weaver&#8217;s Homepage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering PhD, Royal Institute of Technology Chemistry Department of Chemical Engineering | Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Our main research focus is on environmentally friendly, energy-related reactions. Our projects include catalyst development for hydrogen production via catalytic steam reforming of methanol (for proton exchange membrane, or PEM, fuel cell applications), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"parent":1003,"menu_order":32,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-section-nav.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1995","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/nimet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/nimet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/nimet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/nimet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/nimet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12683,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/nimet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1995\/revisions\/12683"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/nimet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/nimet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}