• CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Mircea Dincă

MIT

Associate Professor of Chemistry

Mircea Dincă was promoted to Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Chemistry in 2015. In 2010, after two years as a Postdoctoral Associate working on heterogeneous electrocatalytic water splitting, Mr. Dincă became an Assistant Professor in the chemistry department. For his research on microporous materials with applications in energy storage, conversion, and heterogeneous catalysis, Mr. Dincă was awarded the American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry and the Alan T. Waterman Award, the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious award in science and engineering to any single person under the age of 35. He obtained his BA in chemistry from Princeton University and did his graduate work at UC Berkeley, where he obtained a PhD in inorganic chemistry. At Berkeley, Mr. Dincă worked on the synthesis and characterization of microporous metal-organic frameworks for hydrogen storage.

Sessions With Mircea Dincă

Wednesday, 13 March

  • 11:30am - 12:30pm (CST) / -

    Storm over Plastics: Innovative technology solutions

    Panel Oil Technology/Innovation

    The growing global plastics sustainability movement is one of the biggest potential disruptors for the plastics industry and is putting future plastics resin demand at risk. Sustainability efforts around plastics will have significant implications for the entire energy and petrochemical value chain. How is plastics positioned as a material performance relative to carbon and energy efficiency? What are some of the innovative technologies and applications for plastics in the new circular economy?