Levi Thompson
 Levi Thompson MMPEI Faculty Fellow |
Levi Thompson is the Richard E. Balzhiser Professor of Chemical Engineering and holds appointments in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics Programs.
He earned his B.ChE. from the University of Delaware, and M.S.E. degrees in Chemical Engineering and Nuclear Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan.
Research in Professor Thompson’s group focuses primarily on the design and development of high-performance catalytic, electrocatalytic and adsorbent materials, and defining relationships between the structure, composition and function of nanostructured catalytic and electrocatalytic materials. In addition, his group is working on the use of micromachining and self-assembly methods to fabricate hydrogen production systems and fuel cells.
Professor Thompson has been awarded 10 patents. He was appointed founding Director of the Hydrogen Energy Technology Laboratory, a unit of the Michigan Memorial Phoenix Energy Institute. This laboratory was established to support multidisciplinary hydrogen production, storage and conversion research, and will be housed in the Phoenix Memorial Laboratory.
He is co-founder, with his wife Maria, of T/J Technologies, a developer of nanomaterials for advanced batteries and recently founded Inmatech to commercialize catalytic materials and processes discovered and developed in his UM laboratories.
Levi Thompson is a MMPEI Faculty Fellow.